ARTICLES EXPLAINING SINGLE-PAYER IMPROVED MEDICARE FOR ALL
The author of HR 1976, Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, clarifies the confusion that has arisen in the Democratic debate about Medicare for All. Read her article to get back on the straight track!
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/02/its-time-democrats-get-their-facts-right-medicare-all
Representative Pramila Jayapal concisely explains just about everything one needs to know about it, and why it’s the best solution to our healthcare crisis. From PBS Newshour, read or listen to "Why these House Democrats think Medicare for All is the best path for U.S. health care" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-these-house-democrats-say-medicare-for-all-is-americans-best-health-option
Harvard physician and faculty member Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, explains clearly how we can easily pay for Medicare for All, how most people don’t actually like their current plans, and how Medicare for All will be less disruptive than our current system. As many others have realized, we can’t afford anything else.
The co-founders of PNHP give a concise overview of Medicare for All in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association (2019). Click here for a PDF of the complete article. Click here to read comments about the article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2735406
This is a great, comprehensive interview with PNHP past-president and upstate New York internist/hospice specialist Dr. Andy Coates: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/507/the-end-of-insurance
Here is a series of short articles by retired neurosurgeon Dr. George Bohmfalk in the Aspen Times (2018):
2. https://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/columns/guest-commentary-where-do-we-stand-now-with-health-care/
And Action steps, for those who want to help make this happen: https://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/columns/guest-commentary-what-can-i-do-to-make-medicare-for-all-happen
ARTICLES SHOWING HOW WE'LL PAY FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL
Researchers at Yale showed that the Senate Medicare for All bill (S.1129) would save over $450 billion and 68,000 lives each year. (2020) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)33019-3/fulltext
Cost analyses of 22 single-payer plans showed that ALL will lower healthcare costs. (2020)
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003013
In this video, U. Mass. at Amherst economists Gerald Friedman and Robert Pollin point out why other studies show higher costs, and emphasize how we can easily pay for Medicare for All, saving 10-13% for businesses and households. (2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqOR1AaBoHU&list=PLPdSQGGMt89e8KF4JdKB1HRpkmzfDmgs_&index=8
Here is a deep-dive analysis of the Sanders' Senate plan, S.1129, by PERI, the Political Economy Research Institute at Amherst, showing how his plan will save money for both families and businesses (2018) www.peri.umass.edu/publication/item/1127-economic-analysis-of-medicare-for-all
This article discusses the truth about the Koch-funded Mercatus study (2018), that had intended to show that Medicare for All would bankrupt the country - https://www.thenation.com/article/single-payer-actually-huge-bargain/
Medical students respond to an article by their school’s CEO in which he questioned Medicare For All (2018) - https://www.businessinsider.com/students-at-weill-cornell-columbia-support-medicare-for-all-2018-11
CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL
A Libertarian makes a case against free markets in health care (2018) - http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/08/02/a-libertarians-case-against-free-markets-in-healthcare
A prominent Conservative predicts that American conservatives will soon be embracing single-payer healthcare (2017) - https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-conservative-case-for-universal-healthcare
A Conservative writer says, "Putting the government in charge of health care would restore it to its proper place in our lives.” (2017) https://theweek.com/articles/695767/conservative-case-singlepayer-health-care
A free-market Conservative argues that we must "embrace the fact that health care is a public good that must be provided." (2017) https://mavenroundtable.io/politicalstorm/conservative/a-conservative-argument-for-a-single-payer-health-care-system-ZTYUKtW49UKkXV-blTwSCg
A Republican doctor and politician agrees with the late Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer that single payer is "the most conservative way forward for our health care system." (2012) https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/the-conservative-case-for-single-payer-health-reform
BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR MEDICARE FOR ALL
This is the website of FixIt, Canadian Healthcare Myths, and other healthcare documentaries, produced by Pennsylvania manufacturer Richard Master: https://fixithealthcare.com
Master and others present "Medicare for All University" - a website course with everything you need to know about Medicare for All- http://medicareforallu.com
Business Initiative for Health Policy (BIHP) is an organization of business leaders supporting Medicare for All - http://businessinitiative.org
Many American corporations don’t support Single-Payer Health Care because of a "toxic stew of ideological blindness and fear of controversy." (2017) https://www.thenation.com/article/wont-american-corporations-support-single-payer-healthcare
VIEWS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
An American family doctor explains why Canada's docs never burn out (2018) http://news.doximity.com/entries/14739325
A Canadian who now lives here writes "American health care is expensive, unequal and inhumane." (2018) https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/417208-single-payer-health-care-is-better-than-obamacare
What a French Doctor’s Office Taught Me About Health Care:
I moved to Europe because I couldn’t afford to be a cancer patient in America. I’d rather have been able to stay home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/opinion/france-united-states-universal-health-care.html
Why dental, vision, and hearing care should be included:
Malcolm Gladwell explains how broader health care makes us al stronger. (2005) - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/29/the-moral-hazard-myth
Diminished hearing may be a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/magazine/hearing-loss-dementia-alzheimers.html
Preventive dental care actually lowers costs in the long run. (2017) - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/health/dental-care-older-americans.html?ref=todayspaper
Oral health cannot properly be considered apart from the health of the rest of the body. (2018) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/upshot/medicare-missing-dental-coverage.html
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING MEDICARE FOR ALL
NATIONAL
Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - http://pnhp.org
Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) - http://student.pnhp.org
Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE) - http://healthoverprofit.org
Healthcare-Now! - https://www.healthcare-now.org
National Nurses United - https://medicare4all.org
STATE AND REGIONAL
Health Care Justice – North Carolina - healthcarejusticenc.org
North Carolina Medicare for All Coalition - https://www.ncm4a.org
Health Care for All NC - NC's first PNHP chapter - https://www.healthcareforallnc.org
Healthcare for All Western NC, the Asheville chapter of PNHP - https://healthcareforallwnc.wordpress.com
Health Care for All Y’All, a grassroots Hillsborough/Orange County NC group supporting HR676 - https://healthcareforallyall.org
Healthcare For All - SC (HFA-SC), the South Carolina chapter of PNHP - http://pnhpsc.org
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