Poverty

Small Steps Not Enough to Get to Universal Healthcare

Imagine having to sneak out of the doctor’s office because you couldn’t afford to pay the bill, or having perfect strangers tearfully confide in you that they can no longer afford their mental health treatment. These are just two of the reasons people gave for supporting single-payer, government-financed health insurance during a pre-Democratic National Convention […]

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Montara Davis RN

  Listen to Montara Davis RN tell us why she supports Single Payer Universal healthcare for all. She witnesses and experiences the injustices and discrimination of the current healthcare system firsthand.   Having great compassion for her patients and concerns for nurses’ safety, Montara wants to create a new Single Payer system that offers all people the care that

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WHY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MAKES NO SENSE.

WHY PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE MAKES NO SENSE There is a lot of nonsense and confusion on the subject of healthcare in the United States. During the Democratic primary, Bernie Sanders was criticized by fellow Democrats for wanting to raise middle-class taxes and abolish the private insurance industry. Many Democrats have defended the system of private,

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California Can Lead The Way For Medicare-For-All

Sonali Kolhatkar & BETTY DOUMAS ON KPFK RADIO This is a KPFK interview with Sonali Kolhatkar and Betty Doumas as a guest speak talking about California’s movement to a Single-Payer system.This is an audio recording with pictures to view Sonali Kolhatkar and Betty Doumas. The interview reveals reveals several issues that for profit healthcare has

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The High Cost of Collusion: Why Health Care is So Expensive in the US

Why Health Care is So Expensive in the US “Why didn’t we know? To start with, unlike any other business in America, almost all of the financial transactions in healthcare are hidden from the providers as well as the patients. We order tests, procedures and medications to manage our patients, but very few doctors, or

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Building the Movement for Healthcare Justice

Building the Movement for Healthcare Justice Bernie Sanders, Pramila Jayapal, Rep.Ayanna Pressley,  Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Co-chair for the Poor Peoples Campaign,  Ady Barkan,  Healthcare Activist, Sara Nelson, President fo the Association of Flight Attendans,  Dr. Abul El-Sayed, Physican and Activist. Hold a Town Hall on Healthcare Justice

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What does poverty look like in the United States?

What does poverty look like in the United States? “Life inside an ‘American-made’ tragedy” Accelerated by the pandemic, there are uniquely underlying reasons for the growing population of ‘working homeless’ in the United States that starts with inadequate health care. Somehow we have normalized a type of poverty that doesn’t exist in most other countries,

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