Tag: Medicare For All
New study shows staggering consequences of for-profit healthcare system and Americans’...
34 million adults know someone who died after not getting the necessary treatment because of affordability.
Now is the time to win national improved Medicare for All
If the movement continues to build support and keeps Medicare for All a central issue in the 2020 election, we can win National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s.
Hundreds of nurses stage die-in in front of Speaker Pelosi’s San...
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of nurses and activists took to the streets of San Francisco to demand that Speaker Pelosi fight for the Medicare for All Act, H.R. 1384.
The ignorance about universal healthcare for Americans is astounding, incomprehensible
If we sent a man to the moon, if we developed the revolutionary internet, then we can develop a world-class healthcare system.
Pete Buttigieg is a sharp corporate tool
The mayor continues to falsely characterize Medicare for All -- no matter how much confusion and disinformation he creates along the way.
Could voters abroad tip the democratic primaries?
I’ve been researching to try to find out exactly how many Democrats vote from abroad. In 2018, the Federal Voting Assistance Program...
Is speaking up for Medicare for All a crime?
As a longtime D.C.-area advocate, I’ve visited Capitol Hill and Members of Congress many times. But never before have I felt I...
Healthcare ad spending exceeds $65 million in 2019 as insurance industry...
An Axios analysis released Wednesday found that spending on healthcare advertisements has exceeded $65 million in 2019 as dark money organizations, the insurance industry, and...
Watch dying activist Andy Barkan’s “heartfelt” and “moving” conversation with Bernie...
Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential...
Rethinking Medicare for All – slightly
In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.
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EPA finalizes repeal of power plant carbon standards as environmental groups sue
The sector accounts for nearly one-quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and the agency separately proposed ending its authority to regulate them.
Democratic attorneys general say Education Department is hiding 1,300 documents on its layoffs
A privilege log lists nearly 1,300 records the agency says are too sensitive to hand over.
7,000 Chicago hotel workers vote to authorize strike
A union survey found a third of members cannot cover rent or mortgage payments, and the last hotel strike in the city, in 2018, lasted about a month.
Vance-led task force moves to strip 760,000 people of ACA coverage
Advocates say the crackdown follows 8 million coverage losses already tied to Trump-era health cuts.
Federal judge blocks deportation of man shot by ICE during Austin delivery run
DHS and the man's attorney give conflicting accounts of the medical care he has received since.