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Top five ways Trump can improve on Obamacare
02 Feb 2025 13:09 GMT
… U.S. transition to a single-payer system. Notable advocates include the … and congressman who supported national health insurance when Harry Truman first proposed … all citizens.
Converting to a single-payer system would face significant challenges …
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‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors
26 Jan 2025 12:06 GMT
… illnesses caused by health insurance company denials, such … with the national health insurance system
Dr Philip … away from private health insurance, toward a single payer healthcare system, … scratch with the national health insurance system,” said Verhoef. …
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We need single-payer health insurance now
22 Dec 2024 09:58 GMT
… Theodore Roosevelt, have proposed national health insurance as the optimal financial structure … need for single-payer national health insurance.
Reviewing the compelling arguments supporting single-payer national health insurance is …
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Letter: We need single-payer health insurance now
22 Dec 2024 13:24 GMT
I was interested to read columnist Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s view of the recent murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson (Dec. 15). She does seem to be speaking for many people in the country who are fed up with insurance companies putting profit …
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Americans Are Angry About Their Health Insurance—With Good Reason
01 Jan 2025 16:15 GMT
… Americans are furious with health insurance corporations—and they have … play.
For decades, health insurance corporations like United have … “covered.” But the health insurance industry doesn’t have … is long overdue: a single-payer national health program. Such …
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Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say
31 Dec 2024 02:48 GMT
By Dean Baker
I’m not one to generally tout the wisdom of the economics discipline, but it actually does offer some useful insights into the likely motive for the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare (UHC). According to media accounts, …
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Can We Have Health Care Without Health Insurance Companies?
29 Dec 2024 17:57 GMT
… an advocate of single payer health insurance—often pointing to … can get by without health insurance companies, could something … efficient.
Overall, our health insurance system can be improved, … that perform the functions health insurers are performing today. …
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The health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a bloodsucking tick — here's why
28 Dec 2024 10:51 GMT
… Americans.
Companies offering such “primary” health insurance simply don’t exist (or … effort to provide government funded, single-payer healthcare insurance was when Lyndon … with government-funded programs like single-payer vastly more difficult, regardless of …
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Americans Are Sick of the Health Insurance Grinches Who Steal Our Money and Our Lives
24 Dec 2024 17:52 GMT
… that a good health insurance policy should ensure accessible … is artificially inflated, health insurers strategize to keep costs … private insurance on the Health Insurance Marketplace. You don … means embracing models like single-payer, where the state ensures …
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Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’
20 Dec 2024 16:04 GMT
… plotting – and executing – murders of health insurance executives and politicians who vote … civilization.”
The movement that brings single-payer healthcare to the US, Doctorow …