The Public Option – Doomed From the Start
by RoseAnn DeMoro, writing for Common Dreams. There’s a significant danger that a public option would not only fail to improve the ACA, it could undermine the movement for Medicare for All With the...
View ArticleWe Still Have A Lot of Work To Do On Healthcare
By Jean Ross writing for Common Dreams. With liberals across the land breathing a huge sigh of relief after the abrupt collapse of the Senate scheme to repeal and somewhat replace the Affordable Care...
View ArticleStalling health care helps no one
Deborah Burger writing for the Eureka Times-Standard. How long are we going to ask North Coast residents who have no health coverage or who struggle to pay inflated costs for medical care to wait for...
View ArticlePiece of Legislation
Get a crash course in the history of the HealthyCA Act and what our people power must overcome in Sacramento! Please share this video now and often on social media and use it when conducting outreach...
View ArticleWe are America’s future doctors. We support a Medicare-for-all health system
By Augie Lindmark, Vanessa Van Doren, Bryant Shuey, and Andy Hyatt – writing for STAT News. Underneath a heap of hospital blankets, Stephen seemed small for a 7-year-old. His chest rose and fell...
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Ban Ki-moon urges U.S. to shun ‘powerful interests’ and adopt universal...
By Jessica Glenza, The Guardian. In a major international intervention in the US debate, the former UN secretary general said the current system ‘ultimately functions to prioritize profit over care’...
View ArticleMeet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
By Michael Lighty, Director of Public Policy, National Nurses United. The announcement by the CEO’s from JP Morgan Chase, Amazon and Berkshire-Hathaway that they are forming a new healthcare company...
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Dramatic Aetna Admission a Window Into Widespread Abuse of Patients in...
Revelations Sunday by CNN that Aetna’s former Southern California medical director admitted under oath that he never looked at patient records when deciding whether to approve or deny care highlights a...
View ArticleSingle payer health care’s opponents are beholden
I am a retired registered nurse who worked for 40 years in acute care hospitals. I watched all those years as our health care system morphed into the heath insurance for profit system now in place,...
View ArticleWhy the Healthcare Justice Movement is Just Getting Started in California and...
By Paul Y. Song, MD As the sun begins to set on California’s two-year legislative session, it will officially signal the death of the Healthy California Act better known as SB562. After Assembly...
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