The Danger Within Us
by Jeanne Lenzer · 12 Dec 2017 · 328pp · 98,127 words
medicine. * * * One change that would go a long way toward simultaneously reducing undertreatment and overtreatment as well as reducing costs is the establishment of a single-payer health insurance program, sometimes dubbed Medicare for all, in the US. This is the kind of health coverage already routinely provided to citizens of most developed
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. Reid · 15 Aug 2009 · 294pp · 85,811 words
.”2 When he was elected premier (that is, governor) of the province of Saskatchewan in 1944, Douglas turned that passionate belief into a government-run, single-payer health care system for all of Saskatchewan’s 1 million residents. The program was so successful and so popular that residents of other provinces began demanding
The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power in the Digital Age
by Simon Head · 14 Aug 2003 · 242pp · 245 words
by Ludwig Edelstein, available at www.pbs. org/wgbh/nova/doctors/oath__classical.html. 9. See, for example, Dr. Marcia Angell, "Dispelling the Myths about Single-Payer Health Care," Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP, undated); "National Health Insurance, Single Payer Fact Sheet"(PNHP, 2001); Dr. Gordon Schiff and Dr. David U
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words
, Jeffrey J., 140, 141 Semiconductor Industry Association, 80 service sector, 12–20 The Shallows (Carr), 254 Shang-Jin Wei, 225 Silvercar, 20 Simonyi, Charles, 71 single-payer health care system, 165–167, 169 The Singularity, 233–238, 248 The Singularity Is Near (Kurzweil), 234 Singularity University, 234 Siu, Henry E., 49, 50 skill
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words
plans is 3.5 percent and 12.3 percent of plan cost, respectively.) But the inability of Vermont governor Peter Shumlin to successfully implement a single-payer health-care system similar to Medicare for All after running and winning on that platform delivered a powerful dose of reality. Vermont’s state legislature had
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The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words
piecemeal solutions like Obamacare and vague talk of student loan forgiveness. Respectable national politicians did not associate themselves with pie-in-the-sky proposals like single-payer health insurance and free college for all. But times have changed. As I write this, the prospective candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in the
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’re ready for full nationalization. There has been exciting progress in the realm of health care recently, though. Long dismissed as a pipe dream, a single-payer health insurance system is now being debated by many of the most prominent members of the Democratic party. In a single-payer system, government agencies fill
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placate shareholders. A government agency playing the role of insurer has no such need, which would potentially mean tens of billions of dollars in savings. Single-payer health insurance, it is worth saying, is not an entirely socialist system. Socialism does not mean “the government pays for things in a market system that
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the Democratic party. As I write this, candidates for the 2020 Democratic party presidential nomination are endorsing single-payer health care, with Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker staking their campaigns on the need for a single-payer health system. What would federally guaranteed health care mean for those of us trying to shed our meritocratic system
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are walking a path that makes sense for them. Helping them do so is just one small reason among a sea of them to institute single-payer health insurance. Our status as one of the few developed nations in the world not to guarantee truly universal health coverage is an embarrassment. It’s
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Why We're Polarized
by Ezra Klein · 28 Jan 2020 · 412pp · 96,251 words
proudly declared that “the era of big government is over.” Health care offers an even starker example. In 1965, a Democratic president created a massive, single-payer health-care system for the nation’s elderly. But as liberal as Medicare was in both conception and execution, it received seventy Republican votes in the
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’t, but this idea proves incoherent upon a moment’s inspection. In 1965, most Senate Republicans joined with the Democratic Party to create Medicare, a single-payer health-care system for the elderly. In 2010, not a single congressional Republican voted for Obamacare, a health-care plan based on the system Republican governor
Economic Dignity
by Gene Sperling · 14 Sep 2020 · 667pp · 149,811 words
, 275–76 Sherman Act of 1890, 23 Shierholz, Heidi, 265 Shih, Willy, 140 Sides, John, 292 Silva, Jennifer, 287 “silver or lead,” 72, 116, 117 single-payer health care, 100–101, 102–3, 106 Sitaraman, Ganesh, 45–46, 104–5 Skills For Chicagoland’s Future, 213–14 skills and labor markets, 269–71
American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie · 3 Oct 2009 · 410pp · 115,666 words
. Only two areas have remained unchallenged by foundations. One is the preeminent role of hospitals in health care; the other is the resistance to a single-payer health care system or national health plan. While every other country in the developed world has found ways to assure some health care to most of
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
by Fredrik Deboer · 4 Sep 2023 · 211pp · 78,547 words
, when push comes to shove, act in their own economic best interest and support a stingier, lower-tax system than the kind that would make single-payer health care and universal pre-K possible. But in general, such people represent the lowest-hanging fruit. If they’re more interested in putting up Black
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of lefty policy preferences that I can live with, the same as anyone else—a child tax credit, far more muscular laws protecting labor organizing, single-payer health insurance, reparations for slavery, and so on. Anyone can give you a list of political goals, and whether they succeed or not is usually out
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of the possibility of revolution, of centrism. But that perspective is incorrect. I believe in the possibility of transformative change in my own lifetime. True single-payer health insurance in the United States, typically called Medicare for All, appears like a distant dream. The private health insurance industry naturally opposes it, as if
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insurance. (Such incoherence is not unusual in public polling.) But things change, and sometimes they change quickly. Gay marriage is a fundamentally different issue than single-payer health care—in particular, because gay marriage did not threaten an immense private industry the way single-payer does—but it’s still worth considering just
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