For this podcast, Joe Sparks interviews Stephanie Nakajima, Director of Communications at Healthcare-NOW.  Ms. Nakajima talks about her personal healthcare experiences and why there is an urgent need for single payer, Medicare-for-All.  Joe Sparks, Medicare for All Explained, Episode 15

Listen to Medicare For All Explained : A Revelation. Episode 15  What are your thoughts? Please write your comments below.

Wendell Potter dismantles the lies being disseminated by private hospitals, Big Pharma and insurance companies. BIHP, businessinitiative.org  

Watch Dismantling the Lies From New Industry Ad. What are your thoughts? Please write your comments below.

On May 21, 2019, a Medicare for All Resolutions webinar was conducted to bring people together, as a coalition effort in support of "Healthcare is a Human Right". Melinda St. Louis, the Campaign Director for Medicare for All at Public Citizen was the facilitator for this event. 

Values of many Americans include security, justice, and freedom.  A recent HealthCare for All Colorado Foundation (HCACF) presentation by Tom Gottlieb suggests that health care reform, such as a public national health insurance, must assure that these values are honored.  The success of Medicare in America as a social insurance has fulfilled these values.

Robert Reich addresses the 5 main lies being told about Medicare-for-All. He then explains how Medicare-for-All will actually save lives and save money. This short video is part of a series on YouTube called NowThis Opinion.

Jane O’Meara Sanders was recently interviewed on Nurse Talk by Donna Smith, Nurse Talk’s Healthcare in America Senior Correspondent and HCACF Board member.  Jane Sanders is a long-time political activist and social justice supporter.  This interview was conducted in recognition of National Nurses Week and it examines many of the healthcare issues that affect Americans every day.  

Thom Hartmann discusses that while CEO's of insurance companies are making millions of dollars, Americans are going bankrupt paying for their healthcare.  He suggests that insurance companies need to stop sabotaging Medicare-for-All and need to stay out of politics.  Thom Hartmann, April 19, 2019. Ring of Fire.  http://www.thomhartmann.com/  

Bernie Sanders was interviewed by FOX News and made the case that Medicare-for-All provides stability and is supported by many Americans on both sides of the aisle.  Jake Johnson, April 16, 2019 Common Dreams

In this 9-minute video, Dr. Adam Gaffney makes the case that "only Medicare for All can fix the grave dysfunctions and injustices of the American health care system".  Fox News correspondents assert "extraordinary costs" of single payer insurance, refuted by Dr. Gaffney, who notes the U.S. spends twice as much as other high-income nations with worse outcomes. Large savings of single payer for hospital and drug costs, and especially for administrative costs, permit compensation for providers that is essentially unchanged under single payer. Dr. Gaffney contrasts the right of health coverage under Medicare for All with the unfairness of so-called "free-market" health care in which only those who can afford it get care.

The video Big Money Agenda: Democracy on the Brink by CEO Richard Master, demonstrates how commercial insurance is failing the people with inflated administrative costs and inadequate policies, even as crony capitalism derails democracy. Lobbyists outnumbered Congress members 8 to 1 at the time of the ACA, guaranteeing continued high prices for Big Pharma. Fifty percent of Congress members move through the lobbyist revolving door. Founded on the common good, U.S. government has been bought by special interest money, and further compromised by the Supreme Court decision Citizens United, equating money in politics with speech.