Medicare

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...

More Deceptive Reporting On Medicare For All

February 6, 2019 Ben Spielberg, Peoplespolicyproject.org Educate! Health Care, Medicare

Jonathan Martin and Abby Goodnough discuss a brewing Democratic Party debate about Medicare For All in The New York Times. Does it mean a single-payer system in which the government covers everyone’s health care costs? Or is it just rhetoric intended to mean “I support a better health care system” without a commitment to challenging insurance industry power? Martin and Goodnough helpfully note that only one likely 2020 presidential candidate is committed to a single-payer system: Bernie Sanders. But their article is also misleading in its discussion of Medicare For All policy, politics, and polling.

Nancy Pelosi Tells Health Insurance Executives Not To Worry About Medicare For All

February 6, 2019 Ryan Grim, Theintercept.com Educate! Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare

LESS THAN A month after Democrats — many of them running on “Medicare for All” — won back control of the House of Representatives in November, the top health policy aide to then-prospective House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Blue Cross Blue Shield executives and assured them that party leadership had strong reservations about single-payer health care and was more focused on lowering drug prices, according to sources familiar with the meeting. Pelosi adviser Wendell Primus detailed five objections to Medicare for All and said that Democrats would be allies to the insurance industry in the fight against single-payer health care.

Two Medicare For All Plans: HR676 And S1804

December 28, 2018 By Lambert Strether, Nakedcapitalism.com Educate! Health Care, Medicare

Again, if O’Rourke — harder to type than Beto, dammit — has drafted a Medicare for All bill, it’s still resting comfortably in his desk drawer. But speaking of S1804, O’Rourke’s opponent in the 2018 Texas Democrat primary, Sema Hernandez, says he supports it (letter dated September 3, 2018). However, Hernandez may be far too generous; Current Affairs has a fine summary of O’Rourke’s crawfishing on the issue. And if O’Rourke does in fact support S1804, why doesn’t he say so on his mushy site?

Lobbyist Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare For All”

November 24, 2018 Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, Theintercept.com Educate! Health Care, Lobbying, Medicare

NOW THAT THE midterms are finally over, the battle against “Medicare for All” that has been quietly waged throughout the year is poised to take center stage. Internal strategy documents obtained by The Intercept and Documented reveal the strategy that private health care interests plan to use to influence Democratic Party messaging and stymie the momentum toward achieving universal health care coverage. At least 48 incoming freshman lawmakers campaigned on enacting “Medicare for All” or similar efforts to expand access to Medicare. And over the last year, 123 incumbent House Democrats co-sponsored “Medicare for All” legislation — double the number who supported the same bill during the previous legislative session.

Lobbyist Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare For All”

November 21, 2018 Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, Theintercept.com Educate! Health Care, Lobbying, Medicare

Medicare For All Should Be Free Of Profit Takers

October 5, 2018 Kay Tillow, Healthoverprofit.org Resist! Health Care, Medicare, Profit

It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the advocates of national single payer health care in the United States. So good because the vast majority in the US have embraced the concept of improving Medicare and expanding it to the entire population. So bad because corrupting influences threaten to steal the goal before we can get there. Let’s take just one issue—for-profit hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care institutions. Shall we allow the profit takers to remain in the new system, like the flawed Senate Medicare for All bill S 1804, does? Or shall we look at the data, save money while giving superior care, and remove these investor-owned, for-profit institutions from our system?

Jake Tapper’s Faulty Medicare For All Fact-Check

August 21, 2018 By Matt Bruenig, Peoplespolicyproject.org Educate! Media, Medicare

To understand where Tapper went off the rails, it is necessary to first explain the Mercatus Center paper at the center of all these controversies. On July 30, the Mercatus Center released a report by Charles Blahous scoring Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill. The report says that under our current health care system, Americans as a whole will spend $59.7 trillion on health care between 2022 and 2031. Blahous then goes on to find that under Sanders’s Medicare for All bill, Americans will only spend $57.6 trillion, for a savings of roughly $2 trillion. The study also finds that, because the federal government will take on almost all health care spending under Medicare for All, its share of total health spending will rise from $21.9 trillion to $54.6 trillion, an increase of around $32.6 trillion.

Why Won’t The Mainstream Media Tell The Truth About ‘Medicare For All’?

August 20, 2018 Jacob Sugarman, Truthdig.com Educate! Healthcare, Media, Medicare, Propaganda

At the end of a segment posted Friday in conjunction with factcheck.org, CNN’s Jake Tapper issues a playful warning to the country’s politicians: “You’re perfectly entitled to your own opinions,” he quips, “not to your own facts.” It’s a piece of advice the correspondent would be wise to heed himself. As a pair of essays published in Jacobin this week demonstrate, his comprehensive fact-check of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claims about the cost-efficiency of “Medicare for all” is misleading at best and willfully dishonest at worst. The subject of Tapper’s report is a study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a libertarian think tank underwritten by the Koch brothers. More specifically, he focuses on Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez’s contention that the study’s findings indicate universal health care would save money over a 10-year period.

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

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

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

Rural America Needs Medicare For All, And Fast

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

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

More Deceptive Reporting On Medicare For All

Nancy Pelosi Tells Health Insurance Executives Not To Worry About Medicare For All

Two Medicare For All Plans: HR676 And S1804

Lobbyist Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare For All”

Lobbyist Documents Reveal Health Care Industry Battle Plan Against “Medicare For All”

Medicare For All Should Be Free Of Profit Takers

Jake Tapper’s Faulty Medicare For All Fact-Check

Why Won’t The Mainstream Media Tell The Truth About ‘Medicare For All’?

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