The Only Guide to 'Medicare for All' That You Will Ever Need
Healthcare has claimed its prime spot in the great zodiac of policy issues in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.…
Top Pelosi Aide Reportedly Told Health Insurance Company Dems Would Fight Single-Payer
The Intercept reported this morning that Wendell Primus, the top health policy aide to Nancy Pelosi and owner of an…
A Public Option Isn’t Good Enough
There is one thing we can be thankful for: Medicare for All is now a mainstream position in the Democratic Party, to…
Oddly Enough, More Big Pharma Kickbacks for Docs Are Associated With More Opioid Deaths
It’s been an infuriating week on the opioid news front. Just days ago, the New York Times reported on court documents…
American Healthcare Is All About Money for Nothing, Nothing for Free
In the U.S., healthcare is very expensive. There’s a bevy of statistics to prove this—we spend $3.5 trillion a year or m…
How Did Medicare for All Candidates Fare in the Midterms?
This year, a majority of House Democratic candidates endorsed Medicare for All, according to the union National Nurses…
Healthcare Companies Saved Billions From the GOP's Class Warfare Tax Bill
Chances are that someone reading this post just paid a large medical bill, either through having to meet the deductible…
Young people continue to think single payer is...very nice. A new poll from the AP shows that support for a national…
New Poll Finds Most Republicans Support Medicare for All
A new American Barometer poll conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company found something that on its surface…
Trump Administration Sued For Rule That Allows Useless Junk Health Plans To Flourish
A group of patient advocacy organizations sued the Trump administration today over its recent rule that extends the…
Medicare for All Doesn't Get More Mainstream Than a Barack Obama Endorsement
Former President Barack Obama gave what appeared to dually serve as a treatise on the state of U.S. democracy and a…
American Healthcare Spending Is Fucking Mental
American healthcare is a sick joke from almost any angle: how it neglects people with disabilities, and how the people…
Living and Dying on Medicaid [UPDATED]
UPDATED, Aug. 15, 2018, 3 p.m. ET: The local news story on which this post is based was published in August 2017, not…
Get Ready: Pharma and Insurers Are Preparing to Fight Medicare for All
The Hill reported this morning that many of the biggest healthcare interests in the country, including pharmaceutical…
Medicare for All Will Save Trillions, Conservative Wonks Forced to Admit
The rapid emergence of Medicare for All as a mainstream proposal in the Democratic Party has been accompanied by that…
Government Healthcare Is Saving My Mum's Life
My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks…
Humana Is About to Become the
Hospice Industry’s Biggest Player, Report Says
Nothing says big profit margins like a massive health insurer buying up two large hospice chains to turn the business…
Stupid Democrats Are Reportedly Trying to Shut Down All Talk of Single Payer
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee—the group tasked with making sure Democrats win House races around the…
Sure Looks Like Voters Really Care About Healthcare (and Not Much About the Russia Probe)
A new CBS poll says that if the 2018 midterm were held today, Democrats would win back a majority in the House—but just…
Tom Price, Disgraced Ex-Trump Official, Admits He's Also a Huge Liar
Remember Tom Price? That disgraced-preacher-lookin’, Disney turtle fella who used to Trump’s secretary of Health and…
