The Campaign Against 'Medicare For All' Is Spending Millions. Progressives Not So Much.
5 years ago

The Campaign Against 'Medicare For All' Is Spending Millions. Progressives Not So Much.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The most hotly debated policy in the Democratic presidential primary is “Medicare for All” ― a plan to move all Americans onto a single, government-run health insurance plan. The Partnership for America’s Health Care Future ― an industry front group representing private health insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies ― has spent at least $1 million in television A typical 30-second spot, “Same Thing,” depicts a diverse group of ordinary Americans musing about how they prefer to pick their own health insurance plan ― and dismissing the idea of even a public health insurance option. “We have to have people have the choice to keep their private health insurance or to go on to the Medicare plan,” a voter named Michelle says. “Literally, people power, tens of thousands of boots on the ground, having deep conversations with everyday people about how our broken health care system has failed them and their families, garnering their support for Medicare for All and getting them to join us in our fight ― that is our philosophy of organizing for social change to take on the enormity of the challenges we face as a society,” Idelson said in a statement.

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‘Obamacare’ hits record enrollment but an uncertain future awaits under Trump
1 day ago

‘Obamacare’ hits record enrollment but an uncertain future awaits under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama’s landmark health legislation, as the program awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress. “When I took office, I made a promise to the American people that I would bring down the cost of health …

'Obamacare' hits record sign-ups, but an uncertain future looms under Trump
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1 day, 10 hours ago

'Obamacare' hits record sign-ups, but an uncertain future looms under Trump

India Today  

A record 24 million people have signed up for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama's landmark health legislation, as the programme awaits an uncertain future under a Republican-controlled White House and Congress. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the Alaska Beacon last week that Congress would “need to continue these premium tax credits," in an interview …

The health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a bloodsucking tick
6 days, 20 hours ago

The health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a bloodsucking tick

Raw Story  

There’s only one person in this photograph of a recent G7 meeting who represents a country where an illness can destroy an entire family, leaving them bankrupt and homeless, with the repercussions of that sudden fall into poverty echoing down through generations. The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick. Here’s one example …

Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip
1 week, 1 day ago

Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip

Raw Story  

Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Senator Elizabeth Warren, in the letter, expressed to Oz, "concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers." NBC News reported that the "Democrats referred to a 2020 opinion piece that Oz co-wrote calling for putting all Americans into Medicare Advantage, effectively replacing …

Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip
1 week, 1 day ago

Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip

Raw Story  

Mehmet Oz, widely recognized as television’s “Dr. Senator Elizabeth Warren, in the letter, expressed to Oz, "concerns about your advocacy for the elimination of Traditional Medicare and your deep financial ties to private health insurers." NBC News reported that the "Democrats referred to a 2020 opinion piece that Oz co-wrote calling for putting all Americans into Medicare Advantage, effectively replacing …

In wake of killing, UnitedHealth CEO admits that 'no one would design a system like' ours
3 weeks, 5 days ago

In wake of killing, UnitedHealth CEO admits that 'no one would design a system like' ours

Raw Story  

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty wrote in a New York Times op-ed Friday that the for-profit U.S. healthcare system "does not work as well as it should" and that "no one would design a system like the one we have," admissions that came as his industry faced a torrent of public anger following the murder of UnitedHealthcare's chief executive. Witty …

ABC anchor rebuked for claiming popular, cost-saving Medicare for All won't happen
4 weeks, 2 days ago

ABC anchor rebuked for claiming popular, cost-saving Medicare for All won't happen

Raw Story  

Advocates for a government-run healthcare program applauded U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna for pushing back during a Sunday morning interview in which ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz casually dismissed Medicare for All as a proposal that has no chance of ever being implemented. We need Medicare for All,'" Raddatz read before adding her own perspective: "That's not really going to happen, …

Health Care Premiums Could Go Up Fast If Republicans Don't Act
1 month ago

Health Care Premiums Could Go Up Fast If Republicans Don't Act

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. The finding was about the cost of health insurance for people who buy private coverage through the Affordable Care Act, the landmark legislation that Democrats passed and then-President Barack Obama signed in 2010. But in the Affordable Care Act’s early years, those tax credits were smaller than the …

Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare
2 months ago

Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare

NPR  

Trump’s win could accelerate the privatization of Medicare toggle caption Jenny Kane/AP Former President Donald Trump’s pending return to the White House could alter the very nature of Medicare, the nearly 60-year-old federal program. Medicare Advantage plans typically combine coverage for hospital and outpatient care and prescription drugs, while eliminating the 20% coinsurance requirement and capping customers’ annual out-of-pocket costs. …

How Trump could line the pockets of Medicare Advantage giant
2 months, 3 weeks ago

How Trump could line the pockets of Medicare Advantage giant

Raw Story  

Responding to UnitedHealth Group's third quarter results this week, People's Action highlighted how the insurance giant would benefit from Project 2025, the right-wing policy agenda that critics fear will be implemented if former Republican President Donald Trump returns to the White House. "UnitedHealth would be one of the largest financial beneficiaries of Project 2025, since it is the largest private …

Your tax dollars are funding a $64 billion scam
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Your tax dollars are funding a $64 billion scam

Raw Story  

They’re competing unfairly with Medicare, and you and I are paying for it. These giant insurance companies ripped off our tax dollars last year to the tune of an estimated $140 billion over and above what it would’ve caused us if people had simply been on real Medicare, according to a report from Physicians for a National Health Program. If …

Healthcare coverage for millions in U.S. will turn on a debate emerging in Washington
1 year, 9 months ago

Healthcare coverage for millions in U.S. will turn on a debate emerging in Washington

LA Times  

President Biden used his State of the Union speech to bait Republicans into a fight over Medicare. Biden’s plan will “ask the wealthiest to pay a little more to ensure that this program is around for at least 25 more years for our seniors who need it,” White House budget director Shalanda Young told reporters in unveiling the spending plan …

Agonizing choices as Dems debate shrinking health care pie
3 years, 3 months ago

Agonizing choices as Dems debate shrinking health care pie

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Democrats are debating how to divide up what could be a smaller serving of health care spending in President Joe Biden’s domestic policy bill, pitting the needs of older adults who can’t afford their dentures against the plight of uninsured low-income people in the South. Health care is foundational to Biden’s $3.5 trillion domestic policy bill, which touches …

John Oliver Endorses “Medicare for All”
4 years, 10 months ago

John Oliver Endorses “Medicare for All”

Slate  

The Democratic primary is in full swing, which means the American public once again gets to choose between a broad array of politicians, each offering their own unique explanation for why life in the United States has to be so shitty, each with their own unique plan to ensure things don’t get less shitty too quickly, lest people who have …

Medicare for All? A Public Option? Health Care Terms, Explained
4 years, 11 months ago

Medicare for All? A Public Option? Health Care Terms, Explained

NPR  

Health Care Terms, Explained Enlarge this image toggle caption The Washington Post/Getty Images The Washington Post/Getty Images If the last few Democratic presidential debates are any guide, tonight's will likely delve into health care proposals. According to one poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, 87% of Democrats support "Medicare for All," while 64% of Democrats support "single-payer health care." The …

No One Actually Likes Choosing Their Own Health Plan
5 years ago

No One Actually Likes Choosing Their Own Health Plan

Slate  

Health care remains the single most important issue to voters in the 2020 election. In theory, a health insurance marketplace works best when Americans can compare plans and make decisions about coverage based on their needs and each plan’s benefits. Each primary debate to-date has ignored the crucial questions of rising health care prices, declining life expectancy, and the ongoing …

Elizabeth Warren’s “Medicare for All” Plan Is Kind of Unfair
5 years, 2 months ago

Elizabeth Warren’s “Medicare for All” Plan Is Kind of Unfair

Slate  

Elizabeth Warren’s plan to finance “Medicare for All” is a carefully crafted, politically useful document that was written to show how the U.S. could fund a single-payer health system without raising taxes on the middle class. Health care spending varies enormously among Americans, and some share of workers would inevitably end up paying more in new taxes under Sanders’ plan …

Warren vows no middle class tax hike for $20T health plan
5 years, 2 months ago

Warren vows no middle class tax hike for $20T health plan

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed $20 trillion in federal spending over the next decade to provide health care to every American without raising taxes on the middle class, a politically risky effort that pits the goal of universal coverage against skepticism of government-run health care. The details of Warren’s “Medicare for All” plan aim to quell criticism that …

READ: Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For 'Medicare For All'
5 years, 2 months ago

READ: Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For 'Medicare For All'

NPR  

READ: Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Pay For 'Medicare For All' Enlarge this image toggle caption Zach Gibson/Getty Images Zach Gibson/Getty Images Updated at 11:10 a.m. Under a plan released Friday morning, the Massachusetts senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate goes further: Middle class Americans would no longer pay health premiums or copays and would also not pay any new taxes …

“Medicare for All” is becoming a political quagmire for Elizabeth Warren.
5 years, 2 months ago

“Medicare for All” is becoming a political quagmire for Elizabeth Warren.

Slate  

One of the reasons that Bernie Sanders has been a fairly effective advocate for single-payer health care is that he hasn’t focused too hard on how to pay for it. These days, Sanders says there will eventually be a “vigorous debate” about how to pay for “Medicare for All.” Onstage he tells audiences that, yes, their taxes will go up, …

“Medicare for All” is giving Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg headaches.
55 years ago

“Medicare for All” is giving Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg headaches.

Slate  

Something was different in September 2017 when Sen. Bernie Sanders held a press conference to unveil his latest version of single-payer, or “Medicare for All,” legislation. As of now, among the contenders who have even a microscopic chance of winning, only Sanders and Warren still support single-payer health care legislation, the former more effusively than the latter. Warren’s most notable …

Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
5 years, 3 months ago

Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare

NPR  

Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare Enlarge this image toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP Evan Vucci/AP Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET President Trump gave a speech and signed an executive order on health care Thursday, casting the "Medicare for All" proposals from his Democratic rivals as harmful to seniors. Trump spoke extensively about his administration's …

From Mayor Pete, Here Comes 'Medicare For All Who Want It'
5 years, 3 months ago

From Mayor Pete, Here Comes 'Medicare For All Who Want It'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg introduced a health care plan Thursday designed to cover nearly everybody and make insurance less expensive for people who have it already, through a combination of expanded government subsidies, limits on medical prices and a new “public option.” Health care has emerged as a top issue in the 2020 presidential campaign, with …

“Medicare for All” Is Not a Winning Platform
5 years, 3 months ago

“Medicare for All” Is Not a Winning Platform

Slate  

A big fight has opened up in the Democratic presidential race. It’s between “Medicare for All”—a single-payer system that would abolish and replace private health insurance—and a “public option,” which would offer a Medicare-style alternative to private insurance plans but wouldn’t abolish them. Warren offered the same assurance: “People will have access to all of their doctors, all of their …

Democrats Spar Over Private Health Insurance At Presidential Debate
5 years, 3 months ago

Democrats Spar Over Private Health Insurance At Presidential Debate

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Leading Democratic presidential candidates sought to differentiate themselves on health care at a Houston debate Thursday by vying to find out what scares voters more: the potential for higher taxes or to continue to be subject to the whims of the private health insurance system. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are the lone remaining full-throated supporters of …

Democratic Debate Exposes Deep Divides Among Candidates Over Health Care
5 years, 3 months ago

Democratic Debate Exposes Deep Divides Among Candidates Over Health Care

NPR  

Democratic Debate Exposes Deep Divides Among Candidates Over Health Care toggle caption Win McNamee/Getty Images Once again, health care took up a large chunk of a Democratic primary debate. Sponsor Message Thursday night's debate featured two stalwart supporters of the single-payer "Medicare for All" health care plan: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who introduced the bill, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, …

What Medicare For All Might Mean For Jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money
5 years, 4 months ago

What Medicare For All Might Mean For Jobs : The Indicator from Planet Money

NPR  

What Medicare For All Might Mean For Jobs Enlarge this image Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Stephen Maturen/Getty Images The concept of 'Medicare for All' is defining the healthcare debate among Democrats in the 2020 presidential race. The idea is to give government insurance to everyone in the country, by extending Medicare and replacing the existing private insurance system. Proponents say that, …

Sanders: Medicare for All means more taxes, better coverage
5 years, 4 months ago

Sanders: Medicare for All means more taxes, better coverage

Associated Press  

FLORENCE, S.C. — Health care was the focus of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ second day of campaigning in pivotal early-voting South Carolina, where lack of Medicaid expansion has left thousands unable to obtain health coverage. Nationwide, 55% of Democrats and independent voters who lean Democratic said in a poll last month they’d prefer building on President Barack Obama’s Affordable …

Biden health plan aims far beyond legacy of ‘Obamacare’
5 years, 4 months ago

Biden health plan aims far beyond legacy of ‘Obamacare’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Wrapping himself in the legacy of “Obamacare,” Joe Biden is offering restless Democrats a health care proposal that goes far beyond it, calling for a government plan almost anybody can join but stopping short of a total system remake. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet who is proposing a limited public option focused on areas with little insurer competition, calls …

John Delaney Actually Perfectly Embodies How the “Medicare for All” Movement Has Succeeded
55 years ago

John Delaney Actually Perfectly Embodies How the “Medicare for All” Movement Has Succeeded

Slate  

If you want to understand how the Medicare for All movement has utterly transformed the Democratic debate about health care—and why it’s almost certainly doomed to fail in Congress—consider John Delaney. On Tuesday, Warren accused him of recycling Republican talking points, and later leveled him with her most memorable line of the night: “You know,” she said, “I don’t understand …

The Detroit Debate Quickly Turned Into A Big Scrum Over Health Care
5 years, 5 months ago

The Detroit Debate Quickly Turned Into A Big Scrum Over Health Care

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING DETROIT ― If you want to know what an argument about “Medicare for All” would look like in a general election, the Democratic primary debate on Tuesday gave you a pretty good preview. When Rep. Tim Ryan suggested Sanders didn’t understand the proposal, the Vermont senator shot back: “I wrote the damn bill.” Sanders also challenged Tapper, …

This Poll Shows Why Some Democrats Are Skittish About 'Medicare For All'
5 years, 5 months ago

This Poll Shows Why Some Democrats Are Skittish About 'Medicare For All'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Health care has proven to be an early flashpoint in the Democratic presidential primary, as progressives champion a single-payer, “Medicare for All” program and centrists favor reforms to the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Bernie Sanders and other backers of single-payer, Medicare for All plans maintain that eliminating the for-profit health insurance industry and guaranteeing all U.S. residents …

Kamala Harris’ ‘Medicare for all’ plan includes a role for private health insurance
5 years, 5 months ago

Kamala Harris’ ‘Medicare for all’ plan includes a role for private health insurance

LA Times  

Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris offered new details on how she would pay for “Medicare for all” and her vision for the role of private insurance companies. “The next Democratic president needs a clear, transformative, and achievable vision of how we finally change this broken system for good.” Harris, an early endorser of Sanders’ Medicare for all proposal, keeps many …

2020 Dems grapple with how to pay for ‘Medicare for All’
5 years, 5 months ago

2020 Dems grapple with how to pay for ‘Medicare for All’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates trying to appeal to progressive voters with a call for “Medicare for All” are wrestling with the thorny question of how to pay for such a dramatic overhaul of the U.S. health care system. “It’s not just the rich” who would be hit with new cost burdens to help make single-payer health insurance a reality, …

Sanders defends ‘Medicare for All’ after criticism by Biden
5 years, 5 months ago

Sanders defends ‘Medicare for All’ after criticism by Biden

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders vigorously defended his signature “Medicare for All” proposal Wednesday after criticism from his 2020 rival Joe Biden and called on his fellow Democratic presidential candidates to join him in refusing to accept contributions from the health care industry. Saying he wanted to address “some of the half-truths” and “outright lies” about his single-payer health care plan, …

Joe Biden unveils his alternative to ‘Medicare for all’
5 years, 5 months ago

Joe Biden unveils his alternative to ‘Medicare for all’

LA Times  

Joe Biden unveiled a robust plan to expand Obamacare by adding a public program that all Americans could choose, as the former vice president argued Monday that medical insurance can be made universally accessible without scrapping the nation’s current model of delivering healthcare. The Biden plan would provide tens of billions of dollars in new healthcare spending in a bid …

Insider Q&A: Joseph Stiglitz touts ‘progressive capitalism’
5 years, 6 months ago

Insider Q&A: Joseph Stiglitz touts ‘progressive capitalism’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Many of the economic policies being pitched by Democratic presidential candidates are rooted in the ideas pioneered by Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who teaches at Columbia University. In his new book “People, Power and Profits,” Stiglitz outlines his case for “progressive capitalism” in which government programs for health care, retirement and housing can compete against private …

7 Policy Questions Ahead Of The 1st Democratic Presidential Debates
5 years, 6 months ago

7 Policy Questions Ahead Of The 1st Democratic Presidential Debates

NPR  

7 Policy Questions Ahead Of The 1st Democratic Presidential Debates Enlarge this image toggle caption Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images On Wednesday and Thursday, 20 candidates will take the Democratic debate stage to talk about a wide range of policy topics. It's true that, these being Democratic candidates, there's a lot they all agree on — taking …

Democratic Voters Don't Actually Understand 'Medicare For All,' New Report Says
5 years, 6 months ago

Democratic Voters Don't Actually Understand 'Medicare For All,' New Report Says

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A new poll about “Medicare for All” should make you think twice before trusting polls on Medicare for All. But it’s the biggest takeaway from the new survey, one designed specifically to measure the public’s understanding of how Medicare for All would actually work. But, according to a new telephone poll that the Henry J. Kaiser Family …

Medicare for All gets push from medical students, nurses
5 years, 7 months ago

Medicare for All gets push from medical students, nurses

CNN  

CNN — The American Medical Association is coming under increasingfire for opposing “Medicare for All.” Energized by the growing attention on universal health care in the 2020 presidential campaign and in Congress, medical students, nurses and other activists are expected to rally Saturday at the AMA’s annual meeting in Chicago to urge its leadership to change its position. Nearly two …

Democrats grapple with fully embracing Medicare for All
5 years, 7 months ago

Democrats grapple with fully embracing Medicare for All

Associated Press  

MASON CITY, Iowa — A half-dozen presidential candidates back “Medicare for All,” a proposal that would put the government in charge of most health benefits. In more than two dozen interviews across three early-voting states, most Democratic voters told The Associated Press that they’re open to a more incremental approach toward single-payer health care that starts with making government-run insurance …

Single-Payer Advocate Ady Barkan Shines At Historic 'Medicare For All' Hearing
5 years, 8 months ago

Single-Payer Advocate Ady Barkan Shines At Historic 'Medicare For All' Hearing

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON ― The first congressional hearing ever on “Medicare for All” began with a moving moment Tuesday, as single-payer hero Ady Barkan delivered an impassioned speech through an emotionless computer voice. It means that we can finally start to eliminate the atrocious racial and economic disparities that destroy so many lives, that rob our communities of so much dignity, that …

Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ with Dems divided
5 years, 8 months ago

Sanders relaunches ‘Medicare for All’ with Dems divided

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders launched a revamped “Medicare for All” plan on Wednesday, highlighting a divide among Democrats over one of their bedrock 2020 campaign issues — the future of health care in America. Fellow Democratic presidential candidate and co-sponsor Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York also spoke, saying “this has to become the next social safety net.” Four …

It’s the for-profit health care industry telling us we can’t afford Medicare for All
5 years, 9 months ago

It’s the for-profit health care industry telling us we can’t afford Medicare for All

Salon  

The most important question about Medicare for All is a simple one: If other industrialized countries can afford to offer high-quality universal health care to their citizens, why can’t the United States? In a seminal paper published in 2003, Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson found “it’s the prices, stupid” that set the U.S. health care system apart. We have a …

What Medicare for all means for doctors and hospitals
5 years, 9 months ago

What Medicare for all means for doctors and hospitals

CNN  

CNN — Americans generally don’t like the idea of giving up their private health insurance. And that’s one of the main reasons why many hospitals and doctors oppose Medicare for all proposals that would eliminate or minimizeprivate insurance. “Hospitals are already paid far less than the cost of caring for Medicare patients, and more patients with Medicare would strain hospitals …

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