This page contains past articles and blog posts related to Medicare for All and single-payer healthcare systems. Please email your comments or questions to info@hcacfoundation.org 

2019

• July 2019 Medicare for All Talking Points  Confused about the Medicare-for-all rhetoric? Check out Public Citizen's Talking Points page.  www.citizen.org
• July 2019 Want a Glimpse of Single-Payer Healthcare? Look at Cuba Niran S. Al-Agba, MD examines the difference between universal coverage and single payer, focusing on why and how universal care is the most effective system.  MedPage Today.

• June 2019 Medicare for All Needs a Change of Message: Single Payer is Essential, but Most Voters Still Don’t Get That  Even though health care is a basic human right, many challenges and misunderstandings still exist. By Colin McAuliffe, The Nation www.thenation.com 
• June 2019 Why We're Fighting the American Medical Association Medical students and working health professionals have had enough; they are tired of the AMA protecting corporate interests instead of fighting for Medicare-for-All. Jonathan Michels, Will Cox, Alankrita Siddula and Rex Tai. The Guardian
• May 2019  Compare Medicare-for-all and Public Plan Proposals  Another look at the different healthcare proposals introduced in the 116th Congress. KFF.org 
• May 2019 Side-by-Side Comparison of Medicare-for-All and Public Plan Proposals Introduced in the 116th Congress  Concise summary of nine (9) plans introduced in the 116th Congress. The summary breaks the plans into four (4) categories: Single Payer/ Medicare-for-All, Public Plan Option/ Federal/Medicare, Medicare Buy-In for Older Adults, Medicaid Buy-In.  KFF.org
  
• May 2019 The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper   Ari Altstedter, Bloomberg Business Week. Based on HCACF research and information, this article represents why medical tourism should be promoted under Medicare and not by private insurers plans and reasons why people disenroll.

• April 2019 Future Physicians Endorse Medicare for All The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) issued a statement in support of Medicare-for-All. www.amsa.org
• April 2019 Medicare-for-All: What it Could Mean for U.S. Health Care System Ali Velsh on MSNBC interviews Elisabeth Rosenthal (Kaiser Health News editor-in-chief) about the differences between Single Payer and Medicare-for-All, healthcare spending costs, and government healthcare vs governement health insurance. 
• April 2019 People with Serious Health Needs More Likely to Disenroll from Medicare Advantage Plans Diane Archer, Tarbell Board member, analyzes Medicare advantage plans and reasons why people disenroll.
• March 2019 Support for Medicare For All SURGING In Red States Farron Cousins from The Ring of Fire talks about the increase of support for Universal Healthcare, even among people who don't back Socialism.
• March 2019 Beating the Big Pharma Shell Game Fran Quigley from Common Dreams explains how Big Pharma is fighting back against the strong campaign to fix the broken medicine crisis.
• March 2019  Side-by-Side Comparison of Medicare-for-All and Public Plan Proposals Introduced in the 115th Congress  Concise summary of eight (8) plans offered by the 115^th Congress.  The summary points out that all plans avoid addressing cost containment and financing, critical items needed to assure high quality at a reduced price. 2018 KFF Report.
• February 2019 Meet the propaganda outfit fighting against Medicare For All The Potter Report Podcast with Wendell Potter and Joey Rettino, discusses the propaganda in the media speaking out against Medicare-for-All. 
• February 2019 'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019  Benjamin Day, Executive Director of HealthCare-Now and Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of Labor Campaign for Single Payer, provide their perspectives on the forthcoming improved and revised single-payer

2018

• December 2018  Take It From Me: Tweaks Won't Fix Healthcare  Wendell Potter from Common Dreams explains why Democrats should focus on Medicare-for-All
• December 2018  'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years Jake Johnson from Common Dreams illustrates the feasibility of a single payer, Medicare for All insurance system
• November 2018 Private Health Insurer Calls Itself Medicare To Take Advantage Of You (w/ Alex Lawson) Thom Hartmann and Alex Lawson discuss the pros & cons of Medicare and Medicare Advantage plans, and their negative effects on consumers.
• October 2018 Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum Makes the Case for National Public Health Insurance Florida Gubernatorial Candidate  Andrew Gillum talks to Elaine Quijana from CBS about his support of a National Public Health Insurance financing, and why single payer financing is not feasible at the state level.
• October 2018  ‘I Can’t Afford That’: A Viral Tweet Shows Why We Need Medicare for All Helaine Olen from the Washington Post shares one women's painful accident and her refusal of treatment because she could not afford the cost of an ambulance.
• September 2018 States Are Not Waiting on Congress to Expand Medicare to Cover Everybody Wendell Potter from Tarbell wonders when a Medicare for All system will emerge in the United States
• September 2018  Medicare for All makes a Lot of Sense Jeffrey Sachs from CNN examines Medicare-for-All and shares major facts that are missing from the Mercatus report
• September 2018 70% of Americans now support Medicare-for-all—Here's How Single-Payer Could Affect You Yoni Blumberg from CNBC MakeIt reports on what is wrong with our healthcare system and how Medicare-for-All could change things for Americans
• August 2018 In Clear Sign of Progress for Medicare for All Advocates, Insurance and Pharma Giants Build Wall to Defeat Single-Payer by Julia Conley, Common Dreams 
• July 2018 Sanders on Trump's Whining About Big Pharma: "Stop Just Talking About High Drug Prices... Do Something" by Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams
• June 2018 Three Ways Corporations Have Captured Healthcare: Is Single Payer Possible When Corporations Run the Government? by MovetoAmend
• June 2018 Is this the year the AMA finally joins the single-payer movement? by Jonathan Michels, Robertha Barnes and Sydney Leed
• June 2018 Single-Payer Health Care is Not Government-Run Health Care by Wayne Merritt
• March 2018 A Labor-Based Movement For Medicare for All by Michael Lightly
• March 2018 Candidate Health Reform Questionnaire by Michele Swenson
• March 2018 Caucus Resolution: Single Public Payer Health Insurance by Michele Swenson
• January 2018 Physicians for Single Payer by Corinne Frugoni and Wendy Ring
• January 2018 Single Payer Could Solve the Rural Hospital Crisis by Frances Gill

2015/2017

• December 2017 Canada's Single-Payer System: What is True? What is False? by Shefali Luthra - Kaiser Health News  Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit news service covering health issues. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
• December 2017  Is Single Payer the Answer for the US Health Care System?  by Victor R Fuch PhD
• December 2017  Some Doctors Still Billing Medicare for the Most Complicated, Expensive Office Visits by Charles Ornstein and Ryann Grochowski Jones
• November 2017  Eliminate Private Medicare Advantage Plan Subsidies  
  This article posted by The National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare establishes the need for preserving Traditional Medicare as a viable and financially responsible option to circumvent the rising cost of Part B Medicare premiums
• September 2015  Colorado Commission on Affordable Health Care  In a response to the Cost Commission's call for written input, Vince Markovchick, M.D., president of the Health Care for All Colorado Foundation, offered these comments.