This page contains past articles and blog posts related to Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare systems. Please email your comments and questions to [email protected]
- May 2020 The Health 202: Coronavirus Proves U.S. Needs Medicare-for-all, Its Advocates Say Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, provides a synopsis of how we are faring during the pandemic and why so many people cannot afford their healthcare
- May 2020 'The Free Market Is Working,' Declares For-Profit Health Industry Front Group. No, Say Medicare for All Advocates, 'It Is Not.' Jon Queally, CommonDreams, reports on the reactions to the free market from Students for a National Health Programs
- May 2020 As Millions Stripped of Health Coverage Amid Covid-19, House Dems Unveil Bill for Emergency Expansion of Medicare and Medicaid Jessica Corbett, CommonDreams, reports on the new bill to expand Medicare and Medicaid.
- April 2020 Profit Over People, Cost Over Care: America's Broken Healthcare Exposed by Virus Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian, exposes how the U.S healthcare system is failing during the pandemic.
- April 2020 From Free CovidCare to Medicare For All: The Time is Now to Provide Health Care as a Public Good for All Anja Rudiger, CommonDreams, reports on how COVID-19 has opened the door for real discussion and debate on the benefits of Medicare for All
- March 2020 On the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Doctor’s View Mike Pappas, MD., Common Dreams, shares how the U.S. healthcare system is grossly underprepared for the crisis, yet the health care givers are tirelessly and bravely doing their jobs.
- March 2020 Fundamental Health Reform like ‘Medicare for All’ Would Help the Labor Market Josh Bivens, Economic Policy Institute, takes a different angle on the benefits of Medicare for All
- March 2020 Unions Fighting Single-Payer Are Fighting Against Their Workers’ Interests Michelle Chen, Truthout, takes an in-depth look at healthcare as a right for union employees.
- February 2020 Viewpoints: If Patient Voices Could Be As Loud As Lobbyists, Then Surprise Medical Bills Might End; How Is it That Greedy Corporations Get Rich On Insulin? KNN healthcare opinion writers
- February 2020 ‘We Can’t Afford Healthcare’: US Hospital Workers Fight for Higher Wages Michael Sainato, The Guardian, reports on the movement to unionize by hospital and healthcare workers.
- February 2020 Would Your Wages Rise Under ‘Medicare for All’? Austin Frakt, NY Times, delves into answering the question, "Who pays for work-based health insurance?"
- January 2020 Study Finds Single-Payer Health Care Save Money Jerimiah Oetting, The Mercury News, reports on a study by University of California scientists which maintains that single payer plans save people money.
- January 2020 Let’s stop choosing between buying food or healthcare. The urgent need for Medicare-for-all Jessica King McLaughlin shares her opinion on why Coloradans need Medicare for All. coloradosun.com
- January 2020 Health Insurance Price Hikes Show How Capitalism Is Failing Farron Cousins from Ring of Fire shares why greed is the main cause of our failing market, which is affecting the high cost of American health insurance.