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Medicare For All
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.
Sanders Introduces Medicare for All as Solution to “Dysfunctional” Health System
“This is an issue not just of health care. This is an issue about what kind of nation we are,” Sanders said.
“Health Care Is a Human Right”: Sanders Schedules Hearing on Medicare for All
The pandemic has only made the need for Medicare for All more urgent, Sanders said.