In scathing ruling, judge rips insurer for putting ‘bottom line’ over patients’ health
(CNN) In a scathing decision, a federal judge blasted a subsidiary of the nation’s largest insurance company for focusing on the “bottom line as much...
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Medicare for All Will Lower Costs & Expand Healthcare Coverage to Everyone
More than 100 Democratic lawmakers are co-sponsoring a new House bill to dramatically revamp healthcare in the United States by creating a Medicare-for-all system...
The Medicare for All bill is a winner
(CNN)-Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced a sweeping Medicare for All (MFA) bill on Wednesday (H.R. 1384), and the national debate on healthcare is bound to intensify...
An American got sick in Taiwan. He came back with a tale of the ‘horrors of socialized medicine.’
The Facebook post was illustrated with an image of an IV. “Went to the ER in Taiwan,” it began. Kevin Bozeat, a 25-year-old student, wrote...
Living with Type 1 Diabetes When You Can’t Afford Insulin
In 1921, the Canadian scientist and physician Frederick Banting found that a protein isolated from the pancreas of dogs could lower blood sugar in human beings....
Health Care and Insurance Industries Mobilize to Kill ‘Medicare for All’
WASHINGTON — Even before Democrats finish drafting bills to create a single-payer health care system, the health care and insurance industries have assembled a small...
Health care activists plan national push on Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All bill
With Medicare for All actually heading for a vote in Congress, progressive groups prepare for a long fight. With Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and more...
More than 100 House Democrats to unveil ‘battle-ready’ Medicare-for-all plan as 2020 election looms
More than 100 House Democrats plan to unveil a new “Medicare-for-all” plan Wednesday to provide government health insurance to every American, according to a copy...
Here’s what the Democrats’ new Medicare for All bill would do
Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s staff call the bill the “gold standard” Medicare for All proposal. On Wednesday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) will introduce the Medicare for...
The Special Interests Behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare for All Bill Are Not the Usual Suspects
THE MEDICARE FOR ALL legislation unveiled Wednesday by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, was written with the help of a broad swath...