Why Are We Beating Up on Single Payer?

If you don’t like Sanders’s plan, make it better

Single-payer health care has emerged as the primary symbol of the differences between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. For his supporters, Sanders’s…

The ACA was a huge compromise and we all freaking know it. Obama was talking Single Payer Healthcare system back in before he got into office and I believe he truly wanted it to happen, but then…Republicans and God knows who else who made him think it was impossible in the first 100 days in office. Bottom line we should have had it by now and HRC for…

Single payer links of the day

When you say you believe this, can you explain how or why? She’s ruled out single payer. She says she wants “universal healthcare” but through the existing framework of the ACA, built around insurance corporations which can and do limit access to care, and whose system of copays and deductibles are keeping people who are insured from seeking all the…

There’s a really good point here that you bring up that isn’t discussed much in the desire to transition to fully single payer. Because of ACA we are down to only a little less than 10% uninsured. But fully half of those insured are indeed covered via employers still. And those benefits are non-taxable. There’s no transition scenario I’ve heard that…

Bernie Sanders’ single payer Medicare for All Plan

Housing, healthcare, and the problem with Obamacare

The Cost of Living

On a hot July Sunday last year, Vaughn Pinkett was riding his bike near the intersection of Benning Road and 36 Street NE when a driver struck him.

The 52-year-old D.C…

Single payer links of the day

America’s New Single-Payer Majority

The Republican-led House of Representatives just unsuccessfully attempted to undo the Affordable Care Act for the 56th time.

While it’s been well established that repealing Obamacare without a plausible replacement would leave tens of…