Medicare for All

If the Health Care Mandate Is Struck Down, Single-Payer Becomes the Best Choice

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, President Obama, Individual Mandate, Medicare for All, Affordable Care Act, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News

Most Americans favor many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. But the overall plan rests on forcing you and me to buy insurance from the same companies that have been driving up the costs of health care all along.

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Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Medicare for All Would Be Constitutional

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Supreme Court Health Care Reform, Commerce Clause, Supreme Court Health Care, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Individual Mandate, Medicare for All, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer, Scalia Health Care, Supeme Court Obamacare, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Care Law, Medicare, Health Care, Politics News

From the standpoint of constitutional law, overturning the Affordable Care Act could put dangerous constitutional restraints on Congress's ability to forge national solutions to national economic problems. That's a dangerous precedent that goes far beyond health care policy.

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Supreme Court Scandals

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Corruption, Insurance Companies, Public Option, Social Security, Campaign Finance, Individual Mandate, C-Span, Medicare for All, Insurance Profits, Scandal, Ideology, Antonin Scalia, Citizens United, Change, Clarence Thomas, Health Insurance Companies, Obamacare, Mitt Romney, Supreme Court, Affordable Care Act, Louis Brandeis, Bush v. Gore, Medicare, Partisanship, John McCain, Health Care Law, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News

Sadly for America, there is far too much money, and far too little sunlight, in a government that most voters believe, correctly, is corrupted by money that buys democracy in the dark.

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Paul Clement Calls for Tax Hike in Supreme Court Arguments Against Obamacare

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Hcan, Paul Clement, Medicare for All, Individual Mandate, Affordable Care Act, Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicare, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Grover Norquist, Health Care, Health Care Law, Politics News

Paul D. Clement, legal icon of the conservative movement, found himself suggesting a tax hike that violates every fiber in the political body of congressional Republicans as well as the Grover Norquist pledge to never raise taxes in any way or for any reason -- ever.

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Your Medicare Questions Answered

ThirdAge | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Health Post50, Affordable Care Act, Medicare for All, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Fifty News

Since the enrollment period for Medicare began just last Saturday, ThirdAge decided to speak to Carolina Fortin-Garcia, Public Affairs Specialist at t...

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Medicare for All -- A Replay

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Louisville Slugger, Gop, Medicare for All, Joe the Nerd, Pay-Per-View Congresspeople, Healthcare, Tea Party, President Obama, Politics News

I'd love to see the President yell "CLEAR", put the paddles to the chest and restart the heart of the economy. You want to stimulate the economy and lower taxes - this is perfect.

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We Are the United States of America, the Greatest Country on Earth -- We Don't Default

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Default, Trade Agreements, Single Payer, Debt Ceiling, Medicare for All, Works Green Administration, Dennis Kucinich, Politics News

We are the United States of America, the greatest country on earth. We build wealth. We don't default.

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The Solution to the Federal Debt: Expand Medicare, Don't Cut It

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Medicare for All, Paul Ryan Medicare, Deficit, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Federal Budget Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Budget Cuts, Politics News

The media is quick to praise the "courage" of politicians who propose cutting Medicare. But there's nothing courageous about putting more of the burden of medical care onto seniors who have spent a lifetime paying Medicare taxes.

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Medicare: "Biggest Deficit Driver" or "Solution" to Economic Recovery?

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Deficit Reduction, Economic Recovery, Robert Reich, Ryan Plan, Medicare-for-All, Controlling Health Care Costs, Politics News

Democrats have handicapped themselves by starting with compromise in talks regarding the economy and deficit reduction, just as they did with health care reform.

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America's Real Radicals: The 40 Senators Who Voted Against Medicare

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Medicare Vouchers, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Republican Budget, Senate Republicans, Medicare for All, Dick Durbin, Politics News

When 40% of the Senate votes for a policy that's opposed by 78% of the public, it suggests that one of our political parties has been profoundly radicalized. In a two-party system, that's a serious challenge for democracy.

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The President Misses an Opportunity to Get the Country on the Right Course

Kevin Zeese | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Deficit, War, Medicare for All, Obama, Obama Tax Cuts, Medicare, Health Care, Military Budget, Politics News

Once again President Obama has missed an opportunity to get the country on the right track. And, if his previous negotiations with the Republicans are a measure of the likely outcome, his already weak proposal is going to get worse.

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Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan's Curtain

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.07.2011

Democrats who think Ryan has guaranteed the GOP's demise by proposing to shred Medicare will soon be rudely disabused of that notion. Insurers have shown time and again they can persuade Americans to act against their best interests.

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10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Normal, US Social Forum, Cooperatives, Resilience, Move Your Money, Transition-Towns, Medicare for All, Jobs, Corporate Power, It Gets Better, Citizens United, California Climate Law, Wikileaks, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Cancun, Wall Street, Nuclear Weapons, Military Bases, Detroit, Social Movements, Bolivia, Climate Change, YES! Magazine, Chamber of Commerce, Health Care, Common-Security-Clubs, Impact News

It was a tough year, but events from 2010 contain the seeds of transformation. None of the following stories is enough on its own to change the momentum, but each story points to a piece of the solution.

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A Judge's Assist to Single Payer?

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Perhaps unwittingly, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson of Richmond, Va., has enhanced the prospects for single-payer health reform. He did so Monday by...

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Single Payer after the Midterm Elections

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Midterm Elections, 2010 Elections, Vermont, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Vermont Election Results, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Home News

While it's clear from post-election surveys that having voted for "health care reform" was not a major cause of the Democrats' defeats, the new health...

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Stressed Out by Private Health Insurance? A Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Psychiatry, Political Psychology, Health Insurance Companies, Humor, Parody, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Single Payer Healthcare, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Home News

Dr. Carol Paris, a distinguished psychiatrist and a valued colleague in the campaign for single-payer national health insurance, an improved Medicare ...

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Real Family Values: 9 Ways to Support Families in Hard Times

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Home Care, Social Security, Green Jobs, Tax Equity, 2010 Elections, Medicare for All, Part-Time Jobs, Jobs, Community Colleges, Paid Sick Leave, Housing Crisis, Land Trusts, Veterans, Precautionary Principle, Minimum Wage, 2010, Advertising, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Marriage Equity, Foreclosure, Head Start, Cancer, Medicare, Health Care, Domestic Violence, Politics News

For years, the Right dominated the dialogue on "family values." But what does it really mean to support families, especially in a time of economic har...

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The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Medicare Expansion, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Deficit Commission, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Tea Party, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

There are a number of candidates running for office this November who support single-payer legislation, both incumbents and challengers.

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Progressives and Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Healthcare Is Inevitable

Rob Stone M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare for All, Liz Fowler, UnitedHealth Group, Single Payer, Aetna, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wellpoint, Business News

The reality is that single payer, Medicare for All, is not inevitable, nor is there any guarantee the ACA won't bankrupt us while enriching the corporations that lobbied for it.

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Rx on Medicare's Birthday: Expand it to All

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Physicians, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, National Health Reform, Medicare for All, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Reform, Single Payer Health Care, Physicians for a National Health Program, Politics News

By replacing our crazy-quilt, inefficient system of private health insurers with a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program, we would reap enormous savings.

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Democrats Let the Tail Wag the Dog, Fail to Make the Best Case for Reform

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Kuttner, Best Case Health Care Reform, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Medicare-for-All, Rep. Alan Grayson, Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff, Blue Dogs, Pre-Existing Conditions, Tail Wagging the Dog, Denver News

Why haven't Democrats advocated the best case for reform, also the simplest to define and legislate, improving and extending Medicare to all?

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Gray Matters: John Conyers -- Forgotten but Not Gone

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare Expansion, Medicare, Medicare for All, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News

All we can do is see how it works. If things don't really change for the better and Democrats remain in the majority in Congress maybe we can come closer to the Conyers bill, and hear the sleeping dog bark.

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Diary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medicare for All, Afl-Cio, Labor, National Nurses United, Health Care, Nurses, Politics News

The legislation fails to deliver on the promise of a single standard of excellence in care for all and instead makes piecemeal adjustments to the current privatized, for-profit health care behemoth.

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Divestment is the Answer - Vote with Your Stock

Teri Szucs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sick for Profit, Medicare for All, Heathcare Reform, Heath Care, Vote With Your Stock, Divestment, Single Payer, Politics News

I took a good look at the mean, ignorant hate-mongers on the other side. The vote was a win against them. Yesterday I found myself rooting for the pas...

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Health Reform in the Land of Oz

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Political Satire, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Humor and Satire, Home News

I'd like to share this remarkable satirical piece written by Dr. Kathy Waller of Colorado, a fellow member of Physicians for a National Health Program...

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