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The Bakersfield Californian
February 10, 2018
... prove that out in spades. Last month, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, held yet another hearing on universal health care. Democrats sponsoring the single-payer bill, Senate Bill 562, had the California Nurses Association on hand to pressure him and other legislators with a Capitol rally.
The Hill
February 10, 2018
In today's partisan environment, there is bipartisan agreement over one thing: Our health-care system needs big reforms to bring down costs and improve access to care. The question is how do we change it? It's clear the current system isn't perfect, but that shouldn't be an invitation for a single-payerÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
February 10, 2018
California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon may have expected to torpedo the idea of a statewide single-payer healthcare system for the long term last June, when he ... On Monday and Wednesday, the Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage held its final hearings.
Healthcare Finance News
February 9, 2018
Healthcare professionals, labor groups and small business owners have renewed the push for a single-payer healthcare system in California, delivering testimony in Sacramento Wednesday to the State Assembly's Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage. The focus ofÃÂ ...
The Portland Mercury (blog)
January 30, 2018
Government-regulated, single-payer health care has gotten renewed attention in recent years, in large part thanks to Bernie Sanders. But today's announcement shows that it's a long way off. Amazon, the largest retailer in the world, JBMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., and Berkshire Hathaway,ÃÂ ...
Charleston Gazette-Mail
January 27, 2018
In his opening paragraph, Fuchs notes, “Single payer can take many forms, and many questions can be asked. This Viewpoint considers 3 problems of US health care: the uninsured, poor health outcomes (relative to other high-income countries), and high cost. In discussing cost, it will be critical to considerÃÂ ...
Boulder Daily Camera
January 27, 2018
The American health-care system is broke. What follows is a proposal to fix it with a single-payer system. It requires sacrifice by the American public and torte reform. To be fiscally responsible, it cannot be a blank check. While I do not have all the specifics benchmarks identified, they can be worked out.
The Star Democrat
January 27, 2018
EASTON — On Saturday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m., at the Talbot County Free Library in Easton, Dr. James Burdick of St. Michaels will talk about his book, "Talking About Single Payer: Health Care Equality for America." In his book, Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon, Burdick outlines a viable approach to improvingÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
January 26, 2018
The California Democratic Party says it supports single-payer health care, and all but four Democrats in the state Senate have backed it. The test now facing the party – which holds its convention next month in San Diego – is whether to endorse those dissenters, including Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento,ÃÂ ...
WPRI 12 Eyewitness News
January 25, 2018
“Currently, 47,000 Rhode Islanders are uninsured and many more are under-insured. Those who are fully insured face limited-provider networks and skyrocketing premiums, co-pays and deductibles,” Calkin said. “A single-payer system will ensure that every Rhode Islander has access to the health careÃÂ ...
The Dartmouth
January 25, 2018
On Jan. 12, three Geisel School of Medicine students testified at a New Hampshire state legislature meeting on behalf of House Bill 1241, a bill that would establish a commission to assess the benefits and expenses of a single-payer healthcare system in New Hampshire. According to Geisel professorÃÂ ...
International Policy Digest
January 24, 2018
As the Republican majorities in Congress ponder what their version of national healthcare, or lack thereof, might look like, those on the left are increasingly considering a transition to single-payer health care. Single-payer can mean a lot of things, but the most common description goes something like, “anÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 28, 2017
Seeking to redirect the debate, the Assembly has held a number of hearings in recent months to explore how to achieve “universal healthcare,” be it through a single-payer model or other ways to expand coverage. The hearings compared systems in other states and countries and looked into other ways toÃÂ ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
December 31, 1999
A single-payer universal health care plan would save New Yorkers a net of $45 billion a year in healthcare expenditures, according to Gerald Friedman, chair of the Economics Department at UMass Amherst. 98 percent of New York state households would pay less than they do now and 200,000 jobsÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
December 31, 1999
Congressional Democrats, the president notes, are pushing their “universal health care” agenda. The lead vehicle is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' “single-payer” plan (S. 1804)—billed as “Medicare for All”—which has attracted 16 Senate Democrats as co-sponsors. The bill would create a “governmentÃÂ ...
Capital Public Radio News
December 31, 1999
Hearings about creating a single-payer health care system or universal coverage have wrapped up at the California state Capitol, for now. The final meeting of an Assembly committee Wednesday was dominated by discussion of a single-payer bill passed by the state Senate last year and sponsored by theÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
November 26, 2017
The majority of health care professionals, and probably most corporate employers, would prefer a single payer system, in which the federal ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
November 23, 2017
“The way we get there is a single-payer health care system. ... the Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare, an organization ...
HuffPost
November 13, 2017
Two Democratic senators have proposed different paths this year to achieve the party's goal of universal healthcare. Senator Bernie Sanders ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 10, 2017
Senate Advances Health Care Overhaul, Single-Payer Study ... Following objections from Partners HealthCare, the state's largest provider, the ...
Lowell Sun
November 9, 2017
BOSTON -- It's been five years since the Massachusetts Senate last waded into the issue of single-payer health care, and debate beginning ...
Seeking Alpha
November 1, 2017
The discussion of the single payer health-care model is advancing, but in many ... An alternative model emphasizes healthcare over sick care, ...
Commonweal
December 31, 1999
People gather during a rally in late July in New York to support a single-payer health care system and to protest efforts by the Republican Party ...
CapeNews.net
December 31, 1999
Learn About Single-Payer Health Care In Massachusetts ... proposed the addition to the state senate's healthcare reform bill of a mandate to ...
Los Angeles Times
September 23, 2017
To the editor: Healthcare punditry has descended into mudslinging. The right, the left and the center are lost in the sea of regretful policy thatÃÂ ...
NY1
September 22, 2017
NY Dems hope single-payer health care plan gets second look ... earlier this week, Governor Andrew Cuomo called single-payer healthcareÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
September 22, 2017
... health insurance is expensive because healthcare is expensive. ... Rationing care is the single-payer's solution for cutting health care costs.
Los Angeles Times
September 22, 2017
The push for single-payer healthcare, in which the government pays for residents' medical care, has already rattled California's politicalÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 22, 2017
The push for single-payer healthcare just went national. ... overhaul the nation's health-care system by covering everyone through Medicare.
The Hill
September 22, 2017
A slim majority of Americans support a single-payer health-care system that is funded and administrated by the government and eliminatesÃÂ ...
The Federalist
September 20, 2017
The Senate is leaving town at the moment with no vote set on the proposed Obamacare overhaul, but the possibility that they could be votingÃÂ ...
The Badger Herald
September 20, 2017
With victory in sight, Democrats are reopening the health care battle with a push for government-run, single-payer health care led by SenatorÃÂ ...
Morning Consult
September 20, 2017
GOP Ties Democrats to 'Socialism' Over Single-Payer Health Care Bill ... takeover of healthcare,” and Hansen said he thinks public sentimentÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
September 20, 2017
One asked his opinion of a national single-payer health care plan introduced the previous day by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran for theÃÂ ...
Daily Signal
September 20, 2017
“Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country onÃÂ ...
Politico
September 20, 2017
Nearly half of voters, 49 percent, say they support “a single-payer health care system, where all Americans would get their health insuranceÃÂ ...
Newsweek
September 19, 2017
GettyImages-57260724 A physician assistant of family medicine wears a stethoscope during an examination at the Codman Square HealthÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
September 18, 2017
Andrew Cuomo signaled support of single-payer health care at both the ... another effort to repeal the Obama-era Affordable Healthcare Act.
New York Times
September 11, 2017
Nearly any single-payer plan would require substantial disruptions in the current health care system, upending the insurance arrangements ofÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 20, 2017
With members of Congress spending the month of August in their home districts, Republican efforts to do away with President Obama'sÃÂ ...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
August 19, 2017
In a single-payer system, a public entity, such as the government, would pay all ... have to include every aspect of healthcare and the elimination of the existing ... KAISER HEALTH NEWS — Single-payer health care is still aÃÂ ...
STAT
August 18, 2017
ingle-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a ... supportive of a single-payer health system, according to the survey byÃÂ ...
NPR
August 11, 2017
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce a bill next month to create a government-run, single-payer health care system. And he knows it'sÃÂ ...
Business Insider
August 9, 2017
What's it like living in a country with single-payer healthcare? In Canada, doctors have waiting lists and the process is more like getting into aÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
July 31, 2017
In the wee hours of Friday morning, the latest Republican crusade to repeal Obamacare ended in defeat, as John McCain joined GOP SenateÃÂ ...
PolitiFact
July 21, 2017
On single-payer's rising popularity among Democrats, Trump has a point, ... Did he mean that single-payer health care would cost more thanÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The writers correctly point out that there are many ways to achieve universal health care and that a “single payer” system is actually theÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Dreaming of a state-run single-payer healthcare system? Wake up and enter the real world. Want universal healthcare for all Americans?
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
March 18, 2017
Single payer would mean the small businesses' employee health-care burden would diminish and and that extra money could be invested in expansion.
Appleton Post Crescent
March 18, 2017
Paul Ryan misleads us with his claim that Obamacare is failing because it essentially forces healthy, young people to subsidize older, ill individuals.
