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Single-Payer
The “State” of Health-Care Reform: Activists Push for Universal Primary Care in Vermont
Single-payer proponents in Vermont hope achieving universal primary care will be a step toward public health care for all.
Hillary Clinton Declares War on Single-Payer Health Care
Hillary Clinton's attacks on Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan could do long-term damage to the movement for universal health care.
Health Care “by the People”: An Interview With the Architect of Colorado’s Single-Payer Plan
Next year, residents will vote on replacing the Affordable Care Act with ColoradoCare, a single-payer plan that works like a cooperative.
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Will Colorado Become the First State to Implement Single-Payer Health Care?
Colorado citizens are about to put single-payer health care up to a vote on a 2016 statewide ballot referendum.
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Happy 50th Birthday, Medicare! Next Steps in the Fight for Universal Health Care
We still need a single-payer health program. We have to go beyond the Affordable Care Act.
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We Can’t Afford Immigrants Not Being Insured
The Affordable Care Act should be expanded to cover undocumented immigrants, but that's only the next step.
An Effective Prescription for Our Failing Health-Care System
A new book examines the ACA and shows why more fundamental reform is imperative.
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Lessons on the Struggle for Health Care as a Human Right
What happened in Vermont where a so-called single payer proposal died?
How Vermont Got a Single-Payer Health Care Bill: A Non-Electoral History
This is a crucial year in Vermont's fight to enact its single-payer health care law, with design and financing in the works, and while progressives are credited, that narrative …
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Should Health Care Be Rationed? It Already Is
Why don't we make our means-tested system of rationing more rational, and, like other wealthy countries, base it on medical need rather than financial means?