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Single Payer Myths Busted – Single Payer Action

WEBPhysicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a nonpartisan organization of 20,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance, says that the recent debate over single payer has perpetuated a number of myths about the health insurance system.

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Single Payer Action – single payer health care for america

WEBFebruary 20, 2024. Polls show that the majority of Americans favor a single payer Medicare for All system, similar to the one adopted by most industrialized countries – everybody in, nobody out, no premiums, no deductibles, free choice of doctor and hospital. The majority of doctors in most polls support single payer.

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Johns Hopkins Transplant Surgeon Says Single Payer Health Care …

WEBA Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon asserts that a single payer health care system will actually save most taxpayers money. In his new book — Talking About Single Payer: Health Equality for America — Dr. James F. Burdick, details the opportunities for further savings in the present U.S. system, despite the improvements of Obamacare. Dr. …

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Margaret Flowers: Single Payer At the End of the Table

WEBOn Friday, Dr. Margaret Flowers was one of fifteen people to testify before the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee. The subject: health care reform.

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Kip Sullivan and Dr. Matthew Hahn on How Value Based Programs …

WEBRichard Bazarian, an eye surgeon in Portland, Maine, is supportive of the idea. “The senators who tout Medicare for All could prove their commitment by sponsoring legislation to expand coverage for existing Medicare beneficiaries,” Bazarian wrote to the New York Times last week. “Prove a willingness to cover all costs by eliminating the …

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Corporate Democrats Use Public Option to Derail Push for Single …

WEBThe corporate Democrats are using the public option to derail the newly energized movement to single payer. The single payer movement is halfway to passing single payer in the House of Representatives.

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Marcia Angell: Single Payer is the Only Way

WEBSingle payer is the only way. It’s the only way to control costs and cover everyone. That’s the take of Dr. Marcia Angell. She’s a senior lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

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Kip Sullivan on the Creeping Privatization of Medicare

WEBKip Sullivan is a single payer activist in Minnesota who has produced a three part history lesson of this move to defeat single payer and privatize Medicare. “Health care inflation was almost non-existent until the late 1960s,” Sullivan told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last month. “There was a brief bout of inflation that

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Elizabeth Fowler Defending Trump Program to Privatize Medicare

WEBLet’s just look at corporations versus people. Elizabeth (Liz) Fowler has a stellar corporate resume. For seven years, she worked at Johnson & Johnson, as vice president for global health policy. Before joining Johnson & Johnson, she was chief health counsel to Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus, where she was instrumental in …

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About – Single Payer Action

WEBAbout. Who We Are. Single Payer Action is a project of the Daily Citizen Inc., a national 501.c.4 non-profit. Founded by activists. For the American people. Seeking to implement a single payer health insurance system in the United States. Medicare for all.

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Anne Scheetz on Democrats Taking Single Payer off the Table

WEBAnne Scheetz on Democrats Taking Single Payer off the Table. October 8, 2021. Democrats in Congress and their supporters inside the beltway have taken single payer off the table. Instead of pursuing Medicare for All they are pursuing incremental improvements in Medicare – also known as Medicare for Some. They are also pursuing …

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Lack of Insurance is Deadly Single Payer Saves Lives

WEBThat’s according to a comprehensive review of studies published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The review updated a 2002 study conducted by the Institute of Medicine (IOM – now called the National Academy of Medicine) that concluded that 18,000 persons died each year from lack of health insurance.

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Adam Gaffney and the Right to Health in History

WEBGaffney has a new book out – To Heal Humankind: The Right to Health in History (Routledge, 2018). Gaffney traces the debate throughout history. And in reading the book, you realize – the push for single payer in the United States is just part of the ongoing historic battle between the two camps. One star of Gaffney’s book is Aneurin Bevan

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SEIU 1199 Aetna Medicare Advantage and the Attack on …

WEBA spokesperson for SEIU 1199 confirmed that in fact all of the more than 56,000 SEIU 1199 retirees are put into the Aetna Medicare Advantage plan unless they affirmatively opt out. Fewer than one percent have opted out. And in order to opt out, the retirees must meet certain conditions. The union said in a statement that the Aetna plan …

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Immoral and Barbaric Single Payer Action

WEBWire. Covid Single Payer May 30, 2023; The Christian Case for Single Payer May 30, 2023; Pelosi Gets Hospital Industry Award for Blocking Single Payer April 25, 2023; AARP AFL Push Medicare Disadvantage February 5, 2023; Doctors Demoralized February 5, 2023; 25 Ways Canadian Health Care Better Than Obamacare September 22, 2022; …

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Pennsylvania First in the Nation for Single Payer

WEBWill Pennsylvania be the first state in the nation to pass single payer health insurance reform? Chuck Pennacchio says yes. Pennacchio is a Professor of History at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

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Single Payer Would Boost Economy – Single Payer Action

WEBA publicly funded, universal health care system would aid businesses by engendering a more dynamic economy, taming costs and freeing businesses that provide health insurance of the costs of administering benefits and subsidizing the nation’s health care, a Public Citizen report concludes. “Small businesses have rated the cost of health …

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PNHP Demands AHA Exit Dark Money Group Single Payer Action

WEBPhysicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), a nonprofit organization of 23,000 doctors who support Medicare for All reform, last week called on the American Hospital Association (AHA) to divest its membership in the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future (PFAHCF), a dark-money lobbying group that spends millions fighting …

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Nader: Obama’s Flip-Flop on Single Payer – Single Payer Action

WEBIn a speech this week in Chicago before the American Medical Association, Obama made clear he was now opposed to single payer. And his lieutenants suggested that Obama would support legislation to make sure that single payer does not become a reality in America. There’s only one explanation for Obama’s flip-flop on single payer.

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Single Payer Bernie Sanders Mark Cuban Ralph Nader Indivisible …

WEBIt’s not a question of whether. It’s a question of when. With the accelerating collapse of Obamneycare, it’s only a matter of time. Single payer is on the way.

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