medicare

https://www.rawstory.com/house-gop-unveils-budget-with-trillions-in-cuts-to-medicaid-food-benefits-and-more/ House GOP unveils budget with trillions in cuts to Medicaid, food benefits, and more Jake Johnson, Common Dreams September 20, 2023, 6:16 AM ET Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) (Screen...

Democrats Expand Obamacare While Abandoning It While learning the lessons of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are still building on top of it instead of seeking a better design. BY JON WALKER SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 For the past decade, Republicans have made clear their intention to eliminate the...

:wow: How Biden Could Give Everyone Medicare on His Own Okay—he won’t, but the creative application of existing laws that would allow it reflects exactly how a Biden administration needs to be thinking. BY DAVID DAYEN NOVEMBER 17, 2020 The people of Libby, Montana, population 2,628, share...

President Trump is entering the full swing of campaign season by asking the Supreme Court to snatch health insurance from tens of millions of people. The Justice Department filed a brief on Thursday arguing the court should strike down the entire Affordable Care Act. This would cause something...

The Pandemic Could Overwhelm the Insurance Industry. We Must Expand Tricare for Everybody Who Needs It Jon Walker March 26 2020, 7:00 a.m. Photo illustration: Soohee Cho/The Intercept, Getty Images WE KNOW THAT our hospitals aren’t ready, nor is much of our health care industry, if the...

Taken from the Sanders subreddit... I've been posting summary of this in other threads but this is more specific. If we don't do anything, under current law, the US will spend 25% of GDP on healthcare in 10 years or around $52 trillion in the next decade. In 2031, we'll be spending $6 trillion...

Here's A National Single-Payer Health Care Plan That Would Work Shadowproof is proud to contribute to the national health care debate by introducing our plan to transition the United States to a single-payer health care system. Our plan, the Medical Insurance and Care for All program (MICA)...

LONG READ But its the same tactics as the 1990s

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/06/the-simple-message-from-the-trustees-of-social-security-and-medicare/?utm_term=.d7e676a6dc6d By Jared Bernstein June 6 Jared Bernstein, a former chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on...

Bernie Sanders Wants to Expand Medicare to Everybody — Exactly What Its Architects Wanted BERNIE SANDERS DOESN’T just want to play defense on health care — he’s introducing a bill that would expand the Medicare program to everybody in America, creating a single-payer health care system. Such a...

Adam Gaffney further notes: Overall approach is that of "managed competition," which is reason for obvious parallels with ACA exchanges. Whereas ACA exchanges were meant to expand insurance access (problematically), Medicare exchange will be used to kill Medicare as we know it Important to...