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Medicare For All
Critics Say Insurance Companies Deny Medical Claims to Make Billions in Profit
Sen. Bernie Sanders, patients and advocates are calling out insurers as analysts forecast premiums to spike.
From COVID to Monkeypox, Our Health System Failed. We Need Medicare for All.
Medicare for All would go a long way in correcting the racial disparities we are seeing in monkeypox treatment.
Sanders Calls State of US Health Care an “International Embarrassment”
“Sickness should not be a cause of financial ruin,” Sanders said.
Poll Shows 8 in 10 Americans Say They Are Concerned About Access to Health Care
A new survey shows roughly two-thirds of adults think it is the federal government's responsibility to ensure coverage.
Value-Based Payment Is the New For-Profit Health Care Industry
Financed by powerful corporations and private equity firms, value-based payment threatens to take over health care.
Dr. Oz, Trailing Fetterman, Derides His Support for Medicare for All
Progressives push back on the former television personality's condemnation of single-payer health care.
Capitalism Is Making Us Sick and Sucking Us Dry
“All of these systems of extraction are always connected,” says Beatrice Adler-Bolton.
Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Report Says
The pharmaceutical industry exercised its virtually unlimited pricing power to hike costs yet again this month.
Sanders Rebukes Senate for Crafting $50 Billion “Handout” to Microchip Industry
“I guess when you’re giving corporate welfare to big and powerful interests, the deficit no longer matters,” he said.
Medicare for All Could Have Prevented 338,000 COVID Deaths in the US
A study also shows that universal health coverage could have saved $459 billion in medical costs during 2020 alone.