With billions of dollars at stake, powerful healthcare companies have formed a new group to fight single payer healthcare.  The entrenched and highly-profitable healthcare “establishment†is clearly worried that the movement toward single payer would cut into their obscene and unconscionable profit margins that force millions of Americans into financial ruin and bankruptcy. Led by…
“Every major health organization in this country … thinks that their proposal is a disaster,” Sanders said, standing right next to Sens. Graham and Cassidy.
On Meet The Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) destroyed the Republican argument against single payer health care, by reminding America that what Republicans aren’t telling them about the cost is that their expensive health insurance premiums are going to vanish under single payer.
“We have a Medicare system right now. It is a good system. … Let’s expand that program to every man, woman, and child. It’s not a scary proposition.”
“I would predict that in less than seven years, we’ll be in a single-payer system. That’s the great irony of this.”
“We’ve got to join the rest of the world and guarantee health care to all of our people as a right.”
After Cruz expressed phony concern about insurance company profits, Sanders excitedly pounced.
Americans are not interested in paying significantly higher income taxes to have ‘government-provided’ healthcare
It has been claimed Sanders is unelectable and unrealistic, but his years as senator suggest his ability to hold onto his ideals while he works the daily grind of the political process
Krugman points out that with GOP control the House, it may take many years before Republicans agree to provide more funding for a healthcare system
The reality is that when Democrats did have majorities in both houses of Congress they were barely able to pass health-care insurance reform
The Bernie Sanders campaign is ramping up their contrast of the top two Democratic candidates records by hitting Hillary Clinton for opposing single payer heath care and Sen. Kristen Gillibrand’s Family and Medical Leave Act.
During an interview on Nevada Week In Review, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed that Obamacare is the first steps towards single payer healthcare for all.
The Big Three automakers, GM,Chrysler and Ford along with the Canadian Autoworkers pushed the Canadian government to strengthen their single payer system.
A hidden trigger in ObamaCare may very well pave the road to single payer health insurance system or Medicare for all.
We keep hearing from the far right that they want their country back. What country are they talking about? I fear they mean the brash, cruel America of the last 8 years, instead of the America built on the ideals of social justice for all. When they say they’re losing their “freedomsâ€, they’re referring to not healthcare, but their guns.
