Tag: healthcare

Sanders appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 yesterday to talk about healthcare and responded to Trump’s recent statement.

The threatened funding cuts would affect over 12,000 Medicaid patients across Texas.

While we resist, we also need to promote a positive agenda of what we want to see.

“Republicans in Congress have returned to their old obsession of trying to defund Planned Parenthood.”

Except the prospect of more than 20 million people losing their health insurance, and a huge redistribution from the working class to the very rich.

Trump’s White House will likely go along with efforts to block grant Medicaid.

It only takes three Republican senators to stop it.

Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.

If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.

Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.