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
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
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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of poverty” CUNY Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth Deary, Ian Degler, Carl degree creep Democratic party and centrism and education policy and neoliberalism and partisan politics and single-payer health insurance and social democrats 2020 presidential candidates Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Department of Education Descartes, René desegregation DeVos, Betsy Dewey, John impact on American
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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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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
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
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
by Jamie K. McCallum · 15 Nov 2022 · 349pp · 99,230 words
’s Just a Good Nursing Job Shortage,” The Nation, August 7, 2019, www.thenation.com/article/archive/health-care-medicare-nurses/; “Union Endorsers,” Unions for Single Payer Health Care, https://unionsforsinglepayer.org/union_endorsers/. 8. Jason Lemon, “Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion Annually While Preventing 68,000 Deaths, New Study Shows
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words
payer never made it out of the gate when it came to health-care reform. But we should bring it into education reform. In a single-payer health-care plan, the federal government provides coverage for all U.S. citizens and legal residents. Patients don’t go to a government doctor—they just
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for every parent of a K–12 child. Parents would then be free to enroll their child in the school of their choice. In a single-payer health-care plan, all citizens would be free to select the physician and hospital of their choice. And, unlike in our education system, no one backing
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single-payer health care ever suggested that patients can see only a doctor in their own district or can be operated on only at the hospital down the
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
by Andrew Yang · 2 Apr 2018 · 300pp · 76,638 words
and output over health improvements and outcomes. Changing these incentives is key. The most direct way to do so would be to move toward a single-payer health care system, in which the government both guarantees health care for all and negotiates fixed prices. Medicare—the government-provided health care program for Americans
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