Video: My hero Ady Barkan and I discuss health care as a human right
I recently sat down with Medicare for All activist, ALS patient, and honorary nurse Ady Barkan to talk about his new health care interview series...
Author : Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses United
At What Cost?
The patient crisis obscured by cost talk on Medicare for All All the talk about how much people would have to spend to transition to...
Health Care Service Corp. bosses rake in the green
Growing pressure to bring down health care costs hasn’t pinched pay for top brass at the nation’s sixth-largest health insurer. Eight of the 10 highest-paid...
Local Opinion: We’re doctors, and we’re debunking myths about Medicare for All
As physicians who have been working on improving our health care system by implementing an improved “Medicare for All,” we are dismayed by the current...
Statement from National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN: Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Medicare for All a historic moment in the fight for health care reform
Following today’s hearing on the Medicare for All Act of 2019 in the Ways and Means Committee, Bonnie Castillo, RN, Executive Director of National Nurses...
Accept No Substitutes
As the House Ways and Means Committee prepares to hold an influential hearing Wednesday on HR 1384, the Medicare for All bill authored by Reps....
Medicare for all gets new boost from high-ranking House Dem
Assistant House Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) on Tuesday announced his support for “Medicare for All” legislation, becoming the highest-ranking Democrat to co-sponsor the bill....
After Comprehensive Budget Hearing on Single-Payer Health Care, Yarmuth Cosponsors Medicare-For-All & Public Option Proposals
Congressman John Yarmuth (KY-3) announced his cosponsorship of H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019, and three other legislative efforts aimed at either...
Is Medicare for All ‘disruptive’? Not more than medical bankruptcy or death
David Wichmann, CEO of the corporate giant UnitedHealth Group, recently cautioned against the “wholesale disruption” of American health care, should Medicare for All be enacted. There’s something...
Statement from National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, RN: Budget Committee Hearing Shows Momentum for Medicare for All
Following today’s hearing on single-payer health care in the House Budget Committee, National Nurses United (NNU) issued the following statement: “Today’s Budget Committee hearing showed...