In countries like the United States, Brazil, and India we are seeing a major human rights violations… Each of these countries is a member of the WHO, whose Constitution, written in 1946, envisages ‘the highest attainable standard of health [as] one of the fundamental rights of every human being’. Two years later, the International Declaration of Human Rights (1948), Article 25, asserted that ‘everyone …
How Insurers Obscure Healthcare Costs And How to Get Past That
How Insurers Obscure Healthcare Costs (Un-covered) — “As any magician will tell you, you can obscure what you don’t want people to notice by using a technique they’ve used forever: misdirection. Insurers want you to look at the fingers pointing away from them, not at the ones picking your pocket. An important goal of the industry’s misdirection is to keep …
Public Health Insurance: People Want Single-Payer and Have For Decades
The idea that most Americans support universal health care is neither new nor particularly controversial. Surveys showing broad public dissatisfaction with the current system go back at least a decade, and in a 2018 Reuters-Ipsos poll, 70% of respondents said they would support a program of Medicare for All — numbers identical to a survey conducted later that year by the HarrisX polling company. Still, …
Health care legislation on a state level, short of Medicare for All
Julia Rock, April 2021, The Daily Poster On the campaign trail, Joe Biden promised to create a nationwide public health insurance option that would lower patient costs, improve medical care, and help small businesses deal with soaring health care costs. While a Medicare-for-All, single-payer health care system would be simpler, cheaper, and guarantee universal coverage, Biden and Democrats in competitive …
M4All saves money while covering everyone. Support for Medicare for All reaching 70%, according to Fox. Health insurance companies double profits. Over 90 million Americans uninsured or underinsured and can’t afford to go to a doctor when they get sick
By Matt Bruenig the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released an estimate of the cost of implementing a single-payer health insurance program in the United States. The CBO’s report is more exhaustive than any other recent study on the subject and concludes that replacing our current system with a single-payer system would insure every American while reducing overall health spending in the country. …
With Pandemic as National Emergency, Biden Could Enact Medicare for All by Executive Action
November 17, 2020 by Common Dreams “I do not expect Joe Biden to use this power on Inauguration Day to instantly turn the United States into a single-payer country. But there’s nothing in the law that would appear to prevent him from doing it.” by Kenny Stancil, staff writer Common Dreams President-elect Joe Biden delivers a remarks on the economic …
The business of protecting private profits at the expense of public goods — particularly when it comes to something as urgently needed as health care — is an impossible sell on its own terms, so it is purchased
Polls show that a majority of voters, and over 85 percent of Democrats, back Medicare for All. And this popular support has continued to steadily rise because of the pandemic. Some union leaders understand this too, as seen in the pro–Medicare for All vote of UNITE-HERE Local 2 president Anand Singh on Monday. The business of protecting private profits at the expense of public goods …
22 Separate Studies Found: Medicare for All Would Cost Less Than the For-Profit Status Quo. Plus Biden and Buttegieg’s Support for/from Wall Street
February 24, 2020 by The Hill, by Diane Archer No matter how you design a single-payer public health insurance system, it would have lower overall health care costs, so long as for-profit private health insurers no longer exist to drive up health care costs. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during an event to introduce the Medicare for All Act of …
Medicare For All Would Save Billions, Lives
Medicare for All would save $480b, save 68,000 lives, new study shows. Newsweek: “The Medicare For All plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren would save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars each year and would prevent tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, a new study shows. The analysis, conducted by researchers at Yale University, the …
Health Insurance Industry is Aware the Value They Provide is Very Low: Their Biggest Fear is Taking Out the Middleman
Big insurers have placed big bets on Medicare Advantage, the private alternative to traditional Medicare. Insurers devote a substantial portion of their sales and marketing budgets to lure Medicare-eligible Americans into Medicare Advantage plans. The bet has been paying off: more than half of some of the big insurers’ revenue (including UnitedHealthcare, the biggest insurer) is now coming from federal …
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