Keith Evans ·Sep 3, 2022 Member-only The Answer To The Worker Shortage Is Single-Payer Healthcare. While I don’t believe there is an actual worker shortage as much as there is a shortage of people still below their BS tolerance, I will proceed as if it is a “thing”. There is a stable of workers currently doing nothing productive in our economy and likely looking for… Single Payer 4 min read Single Payer 4 min read
Ellen Beth Gill ·Aug 19, 2022 Member-only What if We the People and not the “American billionaire entrepreneur” Controlled Prescription Pricing For many years, I followed and wrote about Physicians for a National Health Program and the Illinois Single Payer Coalition on my old local blog (and sometimes on Huffington Post). I went to some of their local events and met some of their many selfless, hard-working activists, including the late… Single Payer 3 min read Single Payer 3 min read
Steven Welzer ·Apr 20, 2022 Stuck in ruts https://calmatters.org/commentary/2022/01/newsom-single-payer-health-care/ Many people can see that a single-payer system is overall superior. Canada pays considerably less for healthcare relative to the US and achieves similarly good health outcomes. Many people can see that a robust multi-party democracy is superior to our only-two-significant-choices dreary duopolistic political system. Many people can see that, in this day and age, it makes sense to have tuition-free public higher education (as was the case for free public education through high school a hundred years ago). Single Payer 1 min read Single Payer 1 min read
Be A Hero ·Mar 29, 2022 Ady Barkan Universal Coverage Hearing Testimony March 29, 2022 My name is Ady Barkan, and I am the Co-Executive Director of Be A Hero, an organization whose mission is to win health justice in America. As you can see, I am currently in bed. I live in California, and it is rather early here. And because I am… Single Payer 5 min read Single Payer 5 min read
Quentin Palfrey ·Mar 28, 2022 Massachusetts Should Lead — Again — On Universal Access to Health Care The Attorney General plays a major role in health policy in Massachusetts. Working together, Massachusetts could once again lead the way toward universal access to care based on a single-payer system. Massachusetts has always led the way in medicine. … Single Payer 4 min read Single Payer 4 min read
Ira Dember ·Feb 25, 2022 Pigs fly! CBO admits Medicare for All will aid people, businesses, economy On 23 Feb 2022 the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a 56-page report[1] saying the quiet part out loud: single-payer universal healthcare[2] will deliver dramatic positive impacts on families, businesses, and potentially the economy as a whole.[3] CBO summarizes[4]: BIGGER PAYCHECKS. “…employers would no longer provide health care benefits and… Single Payer 3 min read Single Payer 3 min read
Tom Gallagher ·Feb 7, 2022 Can Anyone Actually Do Anything to Bring Universal Health Insurance to California? The California Legislature has done it again — deep-sixed the single-payer health insurance bill for yet another session. All the big players in the California Democratic Party — and the party itself — claim they’re for it, and yet it somehow never happens. Lately the California Nurses Association has finally… Single Payer 5 min read Single Payer 5 min read
Bonnie Castillo ·Jan 25, 2022 United we care The movement to win guaranteed health care for all people in California is more powerful–and more necessary–than ever before As positive Covid cases surge across California (and around the country), health care facilities are literally overflowing. Meanwhile our profit-driven employers have successfully lobbied the California Department of Public Health (CDPH)… Single Payer 5 min read Single Payer 5 min read
Jennifer Stanley ·Nov 7, 2021 Having Insurance Coverage Is Not Access to Care It seems as if the fight for a single-payer health plan that covers every American is a thing of the past. Politicians now talk about expanding healthcare access — if they discuss the plights of their most vulnerable constituents at all. What they fail to realize is that any system… Single Payer 6 min read Single Payer 6 min read
Christer Enfors ·Oct 28, 2021 Member-only Why All Children Should Be Guaranteed Free Healthcare Yesterday I had to take my daugher to the ER, because she’s had a fever for longer than is typical when children catch a cold. A week ago she took a covid-19 test which came back negative so we knew it was something else. She was admitted and given her… Single Payer 3 min read Single Payer 3 min read
