What Does 'Medicare for All' Mean? An Obamacare Alternative - Bloomberg

What Does 'Medicare for All' Mean? An Obamacare Alternative - Bloomberg

Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All | HuffPost

Progressives Support Shoring Up ACA Before Tackling Medicare For All | HuffPost: Democrats could be fighting each other over Medicare for All. Instead, they're united against Trump's effort to dismantle Obamacare.

How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job? | The Nation

How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job? | The Nation: Arkansas is the first state in the nation to impose a work requirement on people receiving Medicaid. The results have been disastrous.

Health Care Keeps Getting More Expensive for Both Workers and Retirees | Fortune

Health Care Keeps Getting More Expensive for Both Workers and Retirees | Fortune

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Debunking Industry Lies, Analysis Shows Medicare for All Would Cut Costs, Boost Efficiency, and Save Lives

Debunking Industry Lies, Analysis Shows Medicare for All Would Cut Costs, Boost Efficiency, and Save Lives: "For people who care about evidence—not ideology—the facts are clear: Medicare for All is the most efficient and most just approach to provide healthcare for everyone in America."

Walz seeks support for health care proposals | | winonadailynews.com

Walz seeks support for health care proposals | | winonadailynews.com: ROCHESTER — Health care has been a constant source of anxiety for Diane Hanson and her husband, Brad.

Obamacare news: Democrats have a plan to strengthen the ACA - Vox

Obamacare news: Democrats have a plan to strengthen the ACA - Vox: After DOJ says the ACA is unconstitutional, House Democrats roll out a targeted plan to expand health care.

Berko: Single-payer health insurance is in the cards | The Columbian

Berko: Single-payer health insurance is in the cards | The Columbian: Dear Mr. Berko: I strongly object to “Medicare for everyone.” Can you explain to me how it makes economic sense?

"With 125 companies selling health insurance, that’s 125 CEOs, 125 presidents, 125 treasurers, 125 executive vice presidents, 125 vice presidents, 125 assistant vice presidents and each of these officers has a computer and each has a secretary who also has a computer. Each of these 125 companies has a legal staff, sales and marketing director, human resources department, payroll and accounting departments, and each of those departments has computers in every nook and cranny that are attached to a bigger office computer and stored in the cloud.

Now imagine the number of desks and chairs, wastebaskets, copy machines, desk equipment, stationery and coffee cups in constant use by 125 health insurers. A famous Aztec chef once said, “Too many cooks spoil the stew,” "

Idaho’s Medicaid expansion fight and John Roberts’s Obamacare ruling, explained - Vox

Idaho’s Medicaid expansion fight and John Roberts’s Obamacare ruling, explained - Vox: As new revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts’s Supreme Court Obamacare ruling come out, states are still fighting over Medicaid expansion.

Opinion | Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test - The New York Times

Opinion | Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test - The New York Times: There are multiple ways to achieve universal coverage.

Medicare-for-all: The design and costs for Democratic health care plans - Vox

Medicare-for-all: The design and costs for Democratic health care plans - Vox: We spent the past month reading through the congressional plans to expand Medicare.

Bitter health insurance debate erupts in Minnesota House | Minnesota | winonadailynews.com

Bitter health insurance debate erupts in Minnesota House | Minnesota | winonadailynews.com: ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A bitter, partisan debate erupted on the Minnesota House floor Wednesday when Republicans tried to bring up a health care reinsurance bill that House Democrats

Americans are dying because they can’t afford their insulin. That’s now a 2020 campaign issue. – ThinkProgress

Americans are dying because they can’t afford their insulin. That’s now a 2020 campaign issue. – ThinkProgress

Healthcare Reformers Should Look To Europe For Feasible Alternatives To Medicare For All

Healthcare Reformers Should Look To Europe For Feasible Alternatives To Medicare For All: Rather than taking its cue from our northern neighbors, or the British National Health Services, it makes more sense for the healthcare reform movement to consider what is being done on the European continent.

The Difference Between a ‘Public Option’ and ‘Medicare for All’? Let’s Define Our Terms - The New York Times

The Difference Between a ‘Public Option’ and ‘Medicare for All’? Let’s Define Our Terms - The New York Times: A glossary for the emerging Democratic health care debate.

Opinion | Should U.S. Adopt Germany’s Health Care Model? - The New York Times

Opinion | Should U.S. Adopt Germany’s Health Care Model? - The New York Times: Readers debate whether a system of nonprofit health insurers is the best path to universal care.

ANA Nurses Not Ready To Follow Union On Medicare For All

ANA Nurses Not Ready To Follow Union On Medicare For All: The American Nurses Association isn’t ready to follow nurses unions in supporting Medicare for All.

Humana CEO Signals Industry Plans to Hijack the Medicare for All Movement. - Business Initiative Health Policy

Humana CEO Signals Industry Plans to Hijack the Medicare for All Movement. - Business Initiative Health Policy: It’s the same game-plan they followed when they systematically weakened the ACA before finally getting on board.

Please be sure when you or others you know turn 65 DO NOT fall for the
Medicare Advantage trap. Until we get a universal single payer system
in this country, just get a regular Medicare Supplement plan where you
still have the freedom of choice of provider and residence.

Would expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin really cost $1.1 billion?

Would expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin really cost $1.1 billion?

This is important.  One thing missed here is that the state turns over the Medicaid/BadgerCare tax money to private insurance companies to "manage" the patients care.  The patient/applicant picks a plan. The state gives that insurance company $X per month to manage and pay for that person's care in that company's "network".  Seems to me that then the insurance company is setting the rates they pay to the care provider in their network.

Opinion | Luke O’Neil: $50 could have saved him, but his GoFundMe pitch didn’t get the clicks - The Boston Globe

Opinion | Luke O’Neil: $50 could have saved him, but his GoFundMe pitch didn’t get the clicks - The Boston Globe: Shane Patrick Boyle lost his mother in March of 2017. You’ve heard this story before, or at least one like it, but you should listen again.

Health insurance: Fewer workers go part-time as ACA coverage worsens

Health insurance: Fewer workers go part-time as ACA coverage worsens: A smaller share of workers who prefer part-time jobs are taking them because of health coverage. Obamacare is not as attractive as it was in 2014.

Health care access should NOT depend on what job you have. Small employers should NOT have such a hard time recruiting because they can not afford health insurance.

National health care plan possible in U.S. | Letters To Editor | leadertelegram.com

National health care plan possible in U.S. | Letters To Editor | leadertelegram.com: Medicare for all. What does it mean? Why is it important?

Unbreaking America

Obsessive Measurement Disorder: Etiology of an Epidemic | THCB

Obsessive Measurement Disorder: Etiology of an Epidemic | THCB
"The complete absence of evidence that P4P would improve the quality of medical care didn’t matter to MedPAC and other P4P advocates. [3] As evidence has piled up over the last decade indicating P4P doesn’t reduce costs and has mixed effects on quality, P4P proponents, true to form, have ignored it. [4]"

Insurance companies DO NOT provide health care.  Actually, their profit motive forces them to withhold health care.  The main problem with Medicare and Medicaid today is how much the insurance companies are intimately involved and are sucking so much of our money into their high exec salaries and corporate profit dividends.  Those companies have no right and no value to be between me and my doctor.

It is a Simple Single Source Solution

It really is quite simple. Single pay. No 3rd party insurance companies making huge profits. One network. You choose which doctor, which clinic and which hospital you want to receive care. Your healthcare card follows you when you move or change jobs. No premiums. No copays. No deductibles. Join the #MedicareForAll movement!

In scathing ruling, judge rips insurer for putting 'bottom line' over patients' health - CNN

In scathing ruling, judge rips insurer for putting 'bottom line' over patients' health - CNN: In a scathing decision, a federal judge blasted a subsidiary of the nation's largest insurance company for focusing on the "bottom line as much or more" than patients' health, saying the insurer illegally denied treatment to thousands of people. The judge also slammed the company's medical directors for being "deceptive" under oath.

Large Blues health insurer pockets $1.7 billion tax refund - Axios

Large Blues health insurer pockets $1.7 billion tax refund - Axios: The Blues are thriving.

Former Aetna Medical Director Admits To Never Reviewing Medical Records Before Denying Care

Former Aetna Medical Director Admits To Never Reviewing Medical Records Before Denying Care: In an eye-opening exclusive reported by CNN, it was revealed that a former medical director for Aetna admitted under oath that “he never looked at patients’ records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.”

Why Medicare for some is the wrong idea | TheHill

Why Medicare for some is the wrong idea | TheHill: The American people deserve a frank conversation about how we can guarantee access to health care as a right in this country. That conversation does not begin with Medicare for some. It begins – and ends – with Medicare for all.

 I love this statement: “What we love – and what we need – is the freedom to get care from the doctors we want to see at a price we can afford. Medicare for all guarantees all Americans access to health care, with the freedom to see the doctors we want, throughout our lives, wherever we live, wherever we work and whenever we are out of work. That’s about as pragmatic as it gets.”

Our broken health care system punishes mothers like me for sick kids

Our broken health care system punishes mothers like me for sick kids: I am a single mother with insurance and a solid income, but I still had to spend an entire day chasing down basic medicine at an outrageous cost.

GoFundMe CEO Calls on Local, State, Federal Officials to Pass Universal Healthcare

https://gritpost.com/ceo-gofundme-universal-healthcare/?fbclid=IwAR32zBMuc_ZMBLxlAEYp6Y8A4IDMoRwouj5qlN42KxiqGT2lr2_9h2ciNCE

Yes: Medicare for all doable in U.S. | Columnists | leadertelegram.com

Yes: Medicare for all doable in U.S. | Columnists | leadertelegram.com

Health advocates, lawmakers say Tony Evers' health care plan is needed to disrupt disparities | Neighborhoods | madison.com

Health advocates, lawmakers say Tony Evers' health care plan is needed to disrupt disparities | Neighborhoods | madison.com: “As a black mother, this is a personal issue for me. We will no longer allow our families and communities to live with this trauma,” said Rep. Sheila Stubbs.

Minn. Senate vote sets up clash over lowering health care costs - StarTribune.com

Minn. Senate vote sets up clash over lowering health care costs - StarTribune.com

PNHP on Twitter: "We found something wrong with every single paragraph of this @nytdavidbrooks column on #MedicareForAll: https://t.co/vgPqtj9ZqX. It wasn't that hard, honestly.… https://t.co/3ZsNVds04I"

PNHP on Twitter: "We found something wrong with every single paragraph of this @nytdavidbrooks column on #MedicareForAll: https://t.co/vgPqtj9ZqX. It wasn't that hard, honestly.… https://t.co/3ZsNVds04I": “We found something wrong with every single paragraph of this @nytdavidbrooks column on #MedicareForAll: https://t.co/vgPqtj9ZqX. It wasn't that hard, honestly.”

Amy Goodman: The Time for Medicare-for-All Has Finally Arrived by Amy Goodman's Podcast

Amy Goodman: The Time for Medicare-for-All Has Finally Arrived by Amy Goodman's Podcast: Stream Amy Goodman: The Time for Medicare-for-All Has Finally Arrived by Amy Goodman's Podcast from desktop or your mobile device

Let's Meet the Bad Actors of Healthcare Reform - Business Initiative Health Policy

Let's Meet the Bad Actors of Healthcare Reform - Business Initiative Health Policy: The healthcare system is broken, and need dramatic bold reforms, but Partnership for America's Healthcare Future won’t tell you that, because they have no interest in improving American healthcare.

What will Medicare-for-all cost? Matt Bruenig answers tough questions. - Vox

What will Medicare-for-all cost? Matt Bruenig answers tough questions. - Vox: Matt Bruenig on what he worries about — and what he doesn’t — for Medicare-for-all.

Opinion | ‘Medicare for All’: The Impossible Dream - The New York Times

Opinion | ‘Medicare for All’: The Impossible Dream - The New York Times: There’s no plausible route from here to there.

Health measures a key issue as Legislature ramps up | Local News | madison.com

Health measures a key issue as Legislature ramps up | Local News | madison.com: Health care promises to be a key issue in the state Legislature this year, with bills already in play to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, define direct primary care, give tax

Healthcare on the March by Battleground Wisconsin | Free Listening on SoundCloud

Healthcare on the March by Battleground Wisconsin | Free Listening on SoundCloud: Stream Healthcare on the March by Battleground Wisconsin from desktop or your mobile device

Health Care Journalist Struggles to Navigate Her Own Health Crisis | Tarbell

Health Care Journalist Struggles to Navigate Her Own Health Crisis | Tarbell: A two month coma, a misdiagnosis and a $3 million bill.