National Improved Medicare for All

Act Now To Protect Everyone’s Health In New Bill

January 23, 2019 Health Over Profit for Everyone. Resist! Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, Single-Payer

The reports we have are that Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal is planning to introduce her new Medicare for All legislation in early February. We still have not seen a copy of the text - now her office says they will not release it ahead of time - but many HOPE members have been in touch with her office and have met with her staff. It seems the bill is better than the senate version but weaker than our gold standard, the former HR 676, in critical ways. This means we have a short time to act to urge Congresswoman Jayapal to strengthen the bill so that everyone's health is protected.

Healthcare Impacts Everyone. Demand Transparency In Medicare For All

December 26, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

One of the most important pieces of legislation of our times, one that will impact every person in the United States, is currently being drafted in a non-transparent and non-participatory process by a small group of insiders. Single payer activists are calling on Jayapal to share the content of her draft so the extensive expertise of the single payer movement can advise her. On Monday, December 17, 2018, the Health Over Profit for Everyone campaign delivered a letter to Congresswoman Jayapal requesting her to share a draft text of HR 676 with the single payer movement for review and input.

Differentiating Real Medicare-for-All From Sham Knockoffs

December 25, 2018 Don McCanne, PNHP Educate! Medicare for all, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Sarah Kliff and Dylan Scott in Vox help to clarify the differences in the legislative proposals that have inappropriately been grouped together as “Medicare-for-All” proposals. That’s important since only two are bona fide Single Payer Medicare for All bills (Jayapal and Sanders), and the others are lesser bills that leave most of the current dysfunctional financing system in place while offering not much more than an additional public option.

Advocates Call On Jayapal To Release Draft Text Of House Single Payer Bill

December 19, 2018 By Russell Mokhiber, Common Dreams Resist! National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Single payer advocates are calling on Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) to share the draft text of HR 676 with the single payer movement for review and input. Jayapal is the new lead sponsor of HR 676, which for the past fifteen years was sponsored by former Congressman John Conyers (D-Michigan). “Some of your public statements recently have caused concern,” the single payer advocates wrote in a letter to Jayapal. “In particular, statements about your desire to align the text with the Senate bill, S 1804, which is inferior to HR 676.

Stop Medicare Privatization

December 4, 2018 Health Over Profit for Everyone Resist! Medicare Advantage, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

As the movement for National Improved Medicare for All grows, we need to make sure that Medicare Advantage, which is just a front for the private insurance industry, is not allowed to be part of a single payer health system. Medicare Advantage costs the healthcare system more money as it feeds profits of private insurance and it provides worse coverage for seniors. We need to rid the system of the insurance industry and that means rid the system of Medicare Advantage.

Hospital Refuses Procedure, Prescribes ‘Fundraising Effort’ For Heart Transplant

November 25, 2018 By Jack Crosbie, Splinter Educate! National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Shortly before Thanksgiving, the Spectrum Health Richard Devos Heart and Lung Transplant Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, got back to Hedda Martin to say that she could not have a heart transplant, because she doesn’t have enough money to pay for the immunosuppressant drugs she would need to make sure her body accepts the new heart. The hospital recommended that she should set up a “fundraising effort.”

Build Labor Power: Take Healthcare Off The Bargaining Table

September 2, 2018 Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign For Single Payer Create! National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

When we bargain for healthcare, we bargain against ourselves. This crisis has created vast insecurity among working-class Americans. Workers rank health care as the most critical issue in the United States with 60% reporting that maintaining their health insurance is extremely important. Employers know that workers will sacrifice almost anything to hold on to their coverage. And the loss of health insurance during a strike or lockout becomes a horrible weapon in the bosses' arsenal. It doesn't take a math genius to figure out that wage increases are often offset by increased healthcare contributions.

Improved Medicare For All Becoming Unstoppable

August 27, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Create! Healthcare, National Improved Medicare for All, Single-Payer

Medicare for all has had majority support in the United States for more than a decade. Support has been growing as more become aware of the details of the policy. The most recent poll, conducted by Reuters/Ispos found 70% of the public now supports Medicare for all. We see the potential for winning National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s, if people continue to build the movement necessary to demand it. People are understanding that for our health and for our economy we cannot afford not to put in place National Improved Medicare for All.

How To Make National Improved Medicare For All Inevitable

August 14, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Health Care, Medicare for all, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

The national movement for improved Medicare for All is gaining momentum, which means that we have the real potential to win a national universal public health insurance and means that our opponents will double down on preventing this. We speak with Dr. Carol Paris, outgoing president of Physicians for a National Health Program, about how the single payer healthcare movement has changed in the Trump era and where it needs to go. We also cover recent news, including the successful anti-racist actions in DC, the recent verdict against Monsanto and an update on the UPS worker fight for a contract.

Reporting On Medicare For All Makes Media Forget How Math Works

August 5, 2018 Justin Anderson, FAIR Educate! Medicare for all, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

“Medicare for All,” a federally funded universal healthcare plan championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont–Ind.), has quickly become a key issue for progressive voters evaluating Democratic Party candidates for the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential race. The plan would provide coverage for the 40 million currently uninsured in the United States, a gap that is estimated to cause tens of thousands of deaths annually. Despite this, Medicare for All has received no shortage of negative coverage in the media, all revolving around the same question: Just how are we going to pay for it? Medicare for All remedies cost issues through massive administrative cost reductions by cutting out health insurance middlemen and savings from applying Medicare cost rates, which are significantly lower than private insurance rates due to the strength of government bargaining power on costs for care. Of course, it also plans to provide guaranteed coverage to every American.

Happy Birthday Medicare!

July 31, 2018 Mark Dudzic, Labor Campaign for Single Payer Educate! Medicare, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

On July 30, Medicare turned 53. For over half a century, it has provided healthcare as a right to all Americans over 65 and many disabled Americans. It has saved countless lives and kept millions out of poverty. Together with Social Security, it has been the most popular and successful social program in U.S. history. As we honor their achievement, let us rededicate ourselves to building a diverse grassroots movement, backed by the resources and organizing capacity of America's unions, that is powerful enough to take on the medical industrial complex and establish an expanded and improved Medicare system that covers everyone from the cradle to the grave.

Reflections On The Poor People’s Campaign; Returning After 50 Years

July 8, 2018 George Pauk, Popular Resistance. Educate! Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, Poor People's Campaign, Poverty

Fifty years have passed since I was a volunteer physician taking care of the PPC marchers who came across the country and the bridges into the District. They camped in the rain and mud to demonstrate the poverty deep in our “great” nation. But, today while the PPC has had the same soaking rains, there was no mud. The thousands who came were met with a huge interlocking mat of white plastic. It was a thick, flexible barrier between us and the grassroots. The Park Service could take it up after the rally and march and there would be no mud and tracks of the PPC.

The Myth Of Medicare’s Projected Insolvency

June 10, 2018 Don McCanne, PNHP Educate! Medicare, National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Every year the Medicare trustees project the year in which the funds for Part A of Medicare will be inadequate to pay the full costs for that year, based on anticipated revenue and spending. Each year the media then report the pending insolvency of Medicare. This is nonsense. Although revenues and demographics may change, adjustments are made to keep the program fully funded. Only if Congress were to decide to destroy Medicare would funding be reduced below sustainable levels. This is particularly ironic since this year the Republicans in their budget have already made a statement that we do not have to have adequate revenues to pay our bills - producing a budget with a trillion dollar deficit. Our job is to elect representatives who support Medicare - not just for current beneficiaries but for everyone, in an improved version. The inevitable political support would ensure full funding forever.

How To Spot A Fake Single-Payer Plan

June 8, 2018 Carol Paris, PNHP Educate! National Improved Medicare for All, Single payer health care

Polls show that a majority of Americans (and their doctors) support a Medicare-for-all health system. But instead of pushing for real single payer, many lawmakers and think tanks have proposed watered-down, incremental approaches to health reform. They have confusing names like “Medicare X” or “Medicare Extra for All” that sound almost like the real thing. These plans are promoted as “politically feasible” and “less disruptive” than comprehensive single-payer bills like H.R. 676. Fellow health care advocates often ask me if these plans are worth supporting, since they claim to potentially bring more coverage to more people. I tell them that the differences between “fake” and real single payer are too important to ignore.

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