Tag: single-payer health care

We took the streets because people – our people – are dying from corporate greed and government complacency. We need solutions to our health care crisis now, not later.

"Full Medicare for all is now supported by a majority of the American people, a modest majority of doctors, even bigger majority of nurses. What are we waiting for here? It’s much more efficient, as well."

We can only hope that the Democrats who won a new mandate on health care in November will now find the courage to deliver on big ideas like in-state single-payer programs, and push for Medicare for All at the federal level.

During CNN’s Monday night debate about the Affordable Care Act, it became clear that progressives have set the terms of discussion.

It is clear that people in the United States will not tolerate changes that drive millions of more people off of health insurance.

Since 2010, Democratic senators who have refused to sponsor the bill have raised twice as much insurance industry cash as those who support the legislation.

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

Will the super-rich support American health?

Either Medicare or Medicaid: This is what full funding looks like. And a Treaty Right fulfilled. Finally.

Sanders' proposal will cut the health care costs paid by typical working families from some $6,200 a year to $466.