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New Study: Medicare for All Would Have Prevented 340,000 COVID Deaths in the US
What has long been speculated by the Left is now a quantifiable fact: the United States’ privatized and patchwork system of health insurance — which leaves millions uninsured or underinsured — has directly resulted in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths during the pandemic. According to a new report, a shocking 338,000 of the United States’ one million reported COVID deaths could have been avoided if we had a Medicare for All system.
Keep Your Guns and Batons Away From My Pride Parade
The American LGBTQ rights movement has its origins in the struggle against criminalization and police violence. While well-off queer people tended to socialize and cruise in private homes and exclusive clubs in the twentieth century, working-class queers typically only had access to public places like bars and parks, leaving them much more vulnerable to police harassment.
Americans Owe $140 Billion to Collections Agencies Because of Medical Debt
As a Canadian, I sometimes find it difficult to wrap my head around phrases like “medical debt.” My country’s health care system is not without its share of problems, but one of the lasting achievements of Medicare has been to sever the whole idea of going to the doctor from anything involving your wallet.
Bernie Sanders Gets It. We Should All Have Free Health Care During the Pandemic.
When asked recently about the soon-to-be-negotiated stimulus bill, Bernie Sanders said he wouldn’t use his new position as Senate Budget Committee chairman to push for his entire agenda, including Medicare for All. But that doesn’t mean he’s backing down from an aggressive working-class agenda. Sanders’s keystone proposal for the stimulus, the Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act (HCEGA), is essentially Medicare for All on an emergency, temporary basis.
Bernie Sanders Gets It. We Should All Have Free Health Care During the Pandemic.
When asked recently about the soon-to-be-negotiated stimulus bill, Bernie Sanders said he wouldn’t use his new position as Senate Budget Committee chairman to push for his entire agenda, including Medicare for All. But that doesn’t mean he’s backing down from an aggressive working-class agenda. Sanders’s keystone proposal for the stimulus, the Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act (HCEGA), is essentially Medicare for All on an emergency, temporary basis.
Canceling Medical Debt Is a Moral Imperative
In less than a year, our government’s criminally negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed over a quarter-million lives. And those who seek treatment are not only up against the horrors of a deadly virus — they risk being buried in medical debt as well. Insured and uninsured patients alike, and even their loved ones, can face tens of thousands of dollars of medical bills.
We Must Socialize the Hospitals.
The pandemic has laid bare the deadly dysfunctions of market competition compelling even centrist Democrats to rethink how health care is delivered and financed. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — a fierce opponent of progressive policies — has merged private and public hospitals into a single, de facto statewide public health system to coordinate patient capacity, equipment, and staff.
This Pandemic Demands More Than a Few Health Care Tweaks. We Must Socialize the Hospitals.
The pandemic has laid bare the deadly dysfunctions of market competition compelling even centrist Democrats to rethink how health care is delivered and financed. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo — a fierce opponent of progressive policies — has merged private and public hospitals into a single, de facto statewide public health system to coordinate patient capacity, equipment, and staff.
Donald Trump’s Plan for Uninsured Coronavirus Patients Is Outflanking Joe Biden
On Friday, the federal government distributed $30 billion of the $100 billion in grant funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to hospitals and other health care providers. Doled out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the money is intended to help providers stay afloat and ramp up operations during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Origins of the UK’s National Health Service Show How We Can Win Medicare for All
Against the vicious coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the United States’ health care system is facing a historic test that some have likened to wartime. A deployable vaccine may take eighteen months to develop, and failure to slow the exponential spread of the virus could leave 60 percent of the world infected and millions dead. Aggravated by highly uneven social distancing practices, COVID-19 hot spots could surface anywhere at any time without any warning.
Without Medicare for All, We Don’t Have the Tools We Need to Stop Coronavirus
Day-to-day life in the United States is starting to be upended. The coronavirus outbreak is now officially a pandemic. And as the deadly virus spreads, the irrational injustices of our marketized health care system are being exposed and the urgency of Medicare for All laid bare. We don’t have complete information about the new coronavirus (COVID-19), but it appears to hit hard and fast. Up to 60 percent of adults around the world may become infected within a year.
Don’t Be a Coward, Joe Biden: Debate Bernie Sanders on Health Care
The Democratic presidential primary has narrowed to a showdown between Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. In recent days, taking advantage of the binary contest, Sanders has drawn sharp contrasts between himself and Biden — even challenging Biden to a head-to-head debate on health care: Medicare for All is wildly popular with working class and lower income people who understand that we have a dysfunctional health care system. I would love to debate Joe Biden on this issue, give us an hour on MSNBC . . .
Warren Isn't Serious About Winning Medicare for All
The decommodification of health insurance was always an anomaly in Elizabeth Warren's liberal reform agenda. After all, Warren famously called herself a “capitalist to my bones.” But after months of cryptic rhetoric, she has reconciled this inconsistency with a health care plan that won't get us closer to achieving Medicare for All. Warren's recently unveiled health care plan asks us to park the demand for Medicare for All for three years in favor of pushing for a public option.
Elizabeth Warren Isn’t Serious About Winning Medicare for All
The decommodification of health insurance was always an anomaly in Elizabeth Warren’s liberal reform agenda. After all, Warren famously called herself a “capitalist to my bones.” But after months of cryptic rhetoric, she has reconciled this inconsistency with a health care plan that won’t get us closer to achieving Medicare for All. Warren’s recently unveiled health care plan asks us to park the demand for Medicare for All for three years in favor of pushing for a public option.
Victims of Capitalism’s Success
Bleak, dignified, patient, angry — Sorry We Missed You is one of Ken Loach’s finest contributions to working-class fiction. Turning his lens on the gig economy, the film portrays a Newcastle family battered into crisis by the inexorable logic of the market, struggling with zero-hours contracts. Thanks to a meticulously researched script and the authentic performances of non-actors, Sorry We Missed You is a devastating indictment of our economy.
Medicare Turns Fifty-Four Today. We Need to Defend and Expand It
On July 30, 1965, Medicare was signed into law. In eleven months, 19 million Americans were automatically enrolled, half of whom were previously uninsured. And within that same transition period — as a direct result of the policy — every segregated hospital in the South took down their “Whites only” signs, integrating their services for the first time.
The Corporate Campaign to Kill Bernie’s Medicare for All Bill Is Here
The class war over Medicare for All is here. On one side is Bernie Sanders, who recently introduced new and improved Medicare-for-All legislation with the support of a burgeoning grassroots movement and historic small-donor fundraising. On the other side is UnitedHealth, the massive health care company — the fifth-largest US corporation by total revenue of any kind — whose stocks have been plummeting since Sanders revived the bill.
Democrats Should Fight Trump With Medicare For All
Democratic leadership have now signaled to voters what their party would look like in power, by introducing their vision for American health care policy: the laughably named Protecting Pre-existing Conditions and Making Healthcare More Affordable Act.
Don’t Let Beto O’Rourke Kill Medicare for All
What do the Democratic candidates for president believe about Medicare for All? With the exception of Bernie Sanders, it’s hard to say. Kamala Harris has backpedaled. Cory Booker contradicts himself. Elizabeth Warren has a wavering record and avoids the subject as much as possible. Meanwhile they all support competing legislation on the side. Beto O’Rourke’s reversal is the most flagrant yet.
We Don’t Need More “Choice” - We Need Medicare for All
During a speech yesterday at an upscale Florida retirement village, Donald Trump announced a new executive order aimed at expanding the Medicare Advantage program — which allows private insurers to compete with traditional Medicare plans — so as to ward off the program’s alleged demise via Medicare for All. “Standing in solidarity with our nation’s seniors, I declare once again that America will never be a socialist country,” he said at the event.
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