A First Look at Pramila Jayapal’s “Medicare for All Act of 2019”, HR 1384
The state of play on the Hill, Jayapal burns the ships, Pelosi is awful, and HR1384 tries to eliminate health care for profit.
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Cancer’s Complications: Confusing Bills, Maddening Errors And Endless Phone Calls
Yves here. I am sure readers have many stories of their own from personal or family experience about how the health insurance industry shamefully goes into denial and delay mode with cancer patients. I know of all of one person who didn’t have a horrible time, but even then, as a widowed middle aged woman […]
Read more...How Stupid Do They Think We Are? – Plutocrats Using Logical Fallacies to Defend the Health Care Status Quo
Shredding bad excuses for a bad health care system.
Read more...Want to Pass Medicare For All? Make Voters Happy By Making Them Happy
Looking at the largely lame excuses for not implementing Medicare for All.
Read more...Opioid Crisis Shows How Economic Inequality Kills
Opioid abuse has strong economic roots, namely despair resulting from desperation in struggling communities.
Read more...Is the Opioid Overdose Crisis a Story of Supply or Demand? Depends Where You Look
Economic distress in rural areas and opioid exposure in cities are key indicators of overdose deaths.
Read more...If Medicare for All Is Politically Impossible, “All Payer” Could Fix the System
How an “all payer” program could be a big and politically palatable step towards fixing America’s broken health care system.
Read more...Pelosi Advisor Proposes Non-Binding Arbitration as Road to Lowering Drug Prices
Team Dem contemplates non-binding arbitration as a fix for high drug prices. Help me.
Read more...Trump and His Golfing Buddies Continue Neoliberalism’s Assault on the Veteran’s Administration
Trump and his golfing buddies from Mar-a-Lago flawlessly execute the neoliberal playbook for privatization
Read more...Frail Seniors Find Ways To Live Independently
A short-term program to help poor seniors cope with their physical limitations appears to be very effective.
Read more...Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...Medicare For All — The Democratic Party Audition for 2020
The debate over Medicare for All is forcing Team Dem to show its true colors.
Read more...3 Ways Trump Could Disrupt Health Care for the Better
Even fairly modest changes in health care come off as disruptive relative to what many experts are willing to endorse.
Read more...The Planetary Health Diet Isn’t Much Use to People Living in Food Poverty
Diet has now become political. But will the food industry support more sustainable diets, particularly for low income consumers?
Read more...GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ In Health System Showing Up In Crowdfunding
GoFundMe campaigns as proof of America’s health care crisis.
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