Medicare

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare For All Would Give Workers ‘Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise In A Generation’

October 28, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Create! Health Care, Medicare, Reform, Workers

Medicare for All would give most U.S. workers "the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation," two economists from the University of California, Berkeley said Friday, countering one of the main insurance industry talking points against single-payer. In an op-ed for The Guardian, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman directly challenged the claim that Medicare for All would "involve massive tax increases for the middle class," an attack line centrist Democratic presidential candidates like former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg have recently deployed against the popular proposal.

We Deserve A Better Medicare-For-All Debate

October 26, 2019 By Dylan Scott, Vox.com Strategize! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

The narrow debate over Medicare-for-all’s financing has become totally disconnected from the status quo aspiring reformers want to fix (the high costs of health care in America), and it totally ignores the toll of the Trump administration’s reckless agenda to pare back health coverage in this country. But the debate rolls on. Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Sunday she would put out a plan to finance single-payer Medicare-for-all in the next few weeks. She had little choice. At last week’s debate, debate moderators and centrist candidates used the issue as a cudgel against the senator, who has risen to the top of the 2020 field.

My Patients Deserve Medicare For All

October 4, 2019 By Michael Wallis, Otherwords.org Create! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

When I signed my letter of intent to medical school, I signed up to work with patients, not insurance companies. I wanted to be part of a team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists — working together to make sick people feel better. I soon learned that medicine and health care are two different things. Medicine is diagnosing and treating people. Health care is the bureaucracy that prevents physicians, nurses, and all other providers from practicing medicine to the best of their abilities.

American Medical Association Leaves Coalition Fighting ‘Medicare For All’

August 17, 2019 Peter Sullivan, Thehill.com Educate! Health Care, Medicare, Reform

The American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s main group for doctors, announced Thursday that it is leaving a coalition fighting "Medicare for All," a blow to the industry’s efforts to push back on the progressive proposal. The AMA said it is leaving the industry group called the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, which has been running ads against Medicare for All and public option proposals from the leading Democratic candidates for president. However, the doctors group’s CEO, Dr. James Madara, said in a statement that the AMA still opposes Medicare for All.

What Medicare For All Would Have Meant A Decade Ago

August 6, 2019 By Jarod Facundo, Inequality.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare, New Economy

For years my aunt Sylvia knew something was wrong. She told doctors she was experiencing pain, but they shrugged it off as age-related. Sylvia sought preventative care in the emergency room, where, like other Medicaid recipients, she knew she would eventually be seen by a doctor. But still, she found herself misdiagnosed and undertreated. Sylvia joked often with my mom that those on Medicaid were considered disposable in the emergency room. I remember overhearing her say “los ricos don’t have to worry como los pobres.”

It’s Medicare’s Birthday—Let’s Offer It To Everyone

August 1, 2019 By Nancy J. Altman, Independentmediainstitute.org/economy-for-all Educate! Health Care, Medicare, New Economy

Fifty-four years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. Over half a century later, Medicare has proven its tremendous worth. Before Medicare, nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now, virtually all Americans who have reached their 65th birthday are covered. Medicare is extremely popular, considerably more so than private for-profit health insurance. It is also far more efficient: Medicare has administrative costs of just 1.4 percent, while the administrative costs of private for-profit health insurance average more than 12 percent.

Value Based Programs Are Undermining Medicare And Single Payer

July 24, 2019 Russell Mokhiber, Morgan County USA. Educate! Affordable Care Act, Healthcare, Medicare

Last week, the Single Payer Action Podcast brought Sullivan together with Dr. Matthew Hahn, a family doctor based in Hancock, Maryland and author of Distracted: How Regulations Are Destroying the Practice of Medicine and Preventing True Health-Care Reform for a deep dive into how value based programs are undermining Medicare and the drive for single payer. “Every single payer advocate I am aware of takes a position we’ve got to get rid of the Medicare Advantage program, because we sure as heck aren’t proposing to enroll one third of Americans in insurance companies and call that a single payer,” Sullivan said.

ADAPT Activists Protest Cuts To Medicaid Healthcare Services.

June 4, 2019 Staff, Adapt.org Resist! Health Care, Medicare, Protests, Reform

The Department of Health and Human Services is the federal agency most directly responsible for ensuring that Disabled Americans who need Long Term Services and Supports receive them in the most integrated setting. Although there have been increased opportunities for community living, many individuals with disabilities remain trapped in nursing facilities or other institutions and many of the initiatives that underpin the progress we have made are being eroded or eliminated, as HHS leadership espouses support for harmful changes to the programs and services that keep people with disabilities living free...

Economists In Support Of A Medicare For All Health Care System

May 22, 2019 Staff, Nesri.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare

As economists, we understand that a single-payer “Medicare for All” health insurance system for the U.S. can finance good-quality care for all U.S. residents as a basic right while still significantly reducing overall health care spending relative to the current exorbitant and wasteful system. Health care is not a service that follows standard market rules. It should therefore be provided as a public good. Evidence from around the world demonstrates that publicly financed health care systems result in improved health outcomes, lower costs, and greater equity.

3 Key Moments From The House’s First-Ever Medicare-For-All Hearing

May 1, 2019 By Dylan Scott, Vox.com Educate! Health Care, Medicare

The first congressional hearing on Medicare-for-all was defined by the opening statement by activist Ady Barkan, who has ALS and used a computer system to testify to the House panel about why he believes America needs single-payer health care. “Our time on this earth is the most precious resource we have. A Medicare-for-all system will save all of us tremendous time. For doctors and nurses and providers, it will mean more time giving high-quality care. And for patients and our families, it will mean less time dealing with a broken health care system and more time doing the things we love, together,” Barkan said.

Demanding Medicare For All, Nurses Use Band-Aids To Plaster GoFundMe Pages To Big Pharma Headquarters

April 30, 2019 By Jake Johnson, Commondreams.org Resist! Big Pharma, health, Health Care, Medicare

"Nobody should have a GoFundMe account to pay for their healthcare, and we're here to make sure that that stops." Hundreds of nurses and their allies from across the country rallied Monday outside the headquarters of the pharmaceutical industry's top lobbying group and plastered the GoFundMe pages of Americans "suffering in an immoral healthcare system" to the building's walls and windows. "The people inside this building spent $28 million on lobbying last year to keep prescription drug prices so unaffordable that some of our patients needlessly die."

Single-Payer Advocates Worry ‘Medicare For All’ Hearing Could Be A ‘Farce’

April 27, 2019 Matt Fuller, Huffpost.com Educate! Medicare, Single-Payer

WASHINGTON ― It’s supposed to be the first congressional hearing ever on “Medicare for All” ― a huge win for single-payer advocates and progressives in Congress. But next week, when the House Rules Committee holds that landmark hearing on the expansive health care legislation, Medicare for All advocates may actually be getting screwed. There are four people testifying for Democrats: Sara Collins from the nonpartisan Commonwealth Fund; Dr. Doris Browne, the former president of the National Medical Association; Dr. Farzon Nahvi, an emergency physician and professor in New York City; and Dean Baker, the co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Rural America Needs Medicare For All, And Fast

March 26, 2019 By Barb Kalbach, Otherwords.org Create! health, Hospitals, Medicare

We’ve got a rural health care emergency on the horizon. Rural hospitals are closing or teetering on the brink of closure at an alarming rate. More than a hundred have closed since 2005 and hundreds more are on life support. Long-term care facilities are vanishing across rural America or being bought up by large corporations who care about profit, not the care of our loved ones. Most rural hospitals have even stopped delivering babies — you’ll need to go to the city for that, so plan ahead.

A Wolf In Electoral Reform, Medicare For Some & Healthcare’s Front Lines

February 21, 2019 Staff, Occupy.com Resistance Report Electoral Politics, Health Care, Medicare, Reform

First off, some GOOD NEWS! From the environmental justice front lines and the streets of Queens, here's some inspiration to fuel your activism. Next, could it be true that the House introduced progressive legislation to address our painfully corrupted electoral system? Well, kinda. Here's a look at HR1 and why WE need to look beyond the veil of sweet-sounding reforms. Next up, a similar problem with the recently passed War Powers resolution that aims to cut our support of the genocide in Yemen.

An Open Letter to Rep. Pramila Jayapal Regarding Medicare for All

February 7, 2019 By Isabel Ostrer, Chris Cai, and Ana Malinow, Commondreams.org Create! Electoral Politics, Health Care, Medicare

Thank you for your hard work and leadership as the new lead sponsor of the forthcoming Medicare for All Act of 2019. As health care providers and health justice advocates, we look forward to working with you to grow support for the bill and ensure its future passage. "There is no place for profit in a humane and efficient national health program." We applaud your efforts to improve the legislation from previous versions by including guaranteed access to vital services such as reproductive health and long-term care. However, we have identified two key policy provisions that must be addressed in the final bill: 1) the explicit prohibition and buyout of investor-owned, for-profit health facilities...

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