Single-payer is better for businesses, says one expert
Dr. James Cowan has seen how health insurance works from multiple angles and both sides of the pond, consulting for the National Health Service, the United Kingdom’s public health-care system, to serving as an expert for the health-care insurer Aetna here in the United States. Now acting as an advisor for the Rhode Island Health […]
Medicare for All would save RI money—and here’s the math
Would health care in Rhode Island cost less if everyone had access to it? The question, brought to the national stage in arguments surrounding Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan, came to Rhode Island repeatedly this week, whether it was when Democratic gubernatorial candidate Matt Brown announced his own Medicare for All plan, or in […]
Matt Brown calls for “Medicare for All”
Democratic candidate for Governor Matt Brown announced last Friday that he supports a “Medicare for All” plan for Rhode Island, which will both counter Gov. Raimondo’s Medicaid cuts and “save Rhode Island money every year,” he said in a press release. “If people lose a job, they lose their health care. Small businesses pay so […]
Does Langevin really support a single-payer healthcare system?
I was skeptical last September when I heard word that Congressman Jim Langevin, Democrat of Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District, had decided to cosponsor the House single-payer health insurance bill, H.R.676 – the Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act. I’d been in contact with the congressman’s office on the issue earlier in the year […]
Sheldon Whitehouse cosponsors Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All legislation
Rhode Island will have a signature on Senator Bernie Sanders’ much-anticipated Medicare For All bill set to be introduced on Wednesday as Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be a cosponsor. “It’s time we had a real conversation about creating a national health plan,” Whitehouse said in a statement released today. “We have come a long way […]
Trumpcare protest outside Governor Conference during VP Pence visit to RI
“The GOP has made only cosmetic changes to their Trumpcare bill that do nothing to alter the bill’s fundamental problems. Make no mistake: this bill and the bill already passed by the House will have a devastating impact on people’s lives.”
The Sheldon Whitehouse healthcare policy Inception
Though lacking in sci-fi pretense and cutting edge special effect visuals, there’s evidence that US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had an idea planted in his head some weeks ago, an idea with important healthcare policy implications.
America needs a prescription for single-payer health care system now
Can you hear the sound of our health care system collapsing? It is not just the threat of TrumpCare, which throws 24 million Americans off health insurance while cutting taxes for the wealthy
Sen. Whitehouse dishes to South Providence on healthcare, immigration, Trump
Judging from the questions asked at US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse‘s “Saturday with Sheldon” event, healthcare is on the minds of a good portion of his constituents. About 85 people came out to see the Senator and ask difficult questions about the future of Rhode Island under President Donald Trump. Whitehouse was at times optimistic, for […]
RI on TrumpCare: Being female isn’t a preexisting condition for health insurance
“Today,” said organizer Nancy Rafi, “as legislators return to their home offices, they need to hear what we think about the House voting to legalize discrimination, and making us all pre-existing conditions.”
Single payer and public option the stars at rally to save Obamacare
“This is their long standing opposition to Medicare [and] Medicaid” said Whitehouse, “We thought we had those zombies buried, but they’re coming back out of the earth again and they walk the planet, and we need to put them back in the ground where they belong.”
First Neighborhood Health Station breaks ground in Central Falls
Think of it as the “Deepwater Wind” of health care: Innovation, starting in Rhode Island, that could be a model for the world. That’s how revolutionary the concept of the Neighborhood Health Station could be, and the first one is being rolled out in Central Falls.
Health insurance industry lawyer makes the case for single payer
In speaking out against a bill that would make sure no pregnant person could be denied medical coverage due to their pregnancy, a health insurance lawyer made one of the best cases possible for a national, single payer health program.
Dr. John Geyman explains why we need single-payer healthcare
I recently sat down for an hour conversation with Dr. John Geyman, author of “How Obamacare is Unsustainable: Why We Need a Single-Payer Solution For All Americans”
Improved Medicare For All: A talk with Oliver Fein, MD
A single payer system could save the country over $400 billion a year says Dr. Oliver Fein, but he would prefer we call it “Improved Medicare For All.”
Raimondo cherry picks data, overstates issues in Reinventing Medicaid
When Raimondo considers the drivers of high Medicaid costs, she ignores key problems. Instead of blaming “High Utilization,” an “Aging Population” or “fraud, waste and abuse” says the PNHP, we should be looking at the fact that “multiple payers create enormous excessive administrative costs and unfairly ration care.”
‘Medicare for All’ advocates focus on Rhode Island
“What will happen if we don’t do this?” asked Dr. Oliver Fein, “By [the year] 2038 a person’s entire household income will have to pay for health insurance. A condition that’s not compatible with life.”
Rebuilding RI’s Economy Via a Single-Payer System
It’s time to liberate capital. Of course, the General Assembly won’t do that, because we’re committed to one simple principle right now: austerity. Cut budgets, cut taxes on the rich, and watch the middle class flee the state while the impoverished remain behind. See, we were facing a pension crisis and we had to tackle that. […]
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