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Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has a Prescription: It's Medicare for All

More than two thousand physicians published an open letter to the American public, prescribing single-payer Medicare for All, in a full-page ad in The New York Times that will run in the print edition on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. On Monday, in a separate but related move, the American College of Physicians (ACP), a national organization representing 159,000 internists, officially endorsed single-payer Medicare for All reform. The ACP is the largest medical specialty society and second-largest physician gro

Study Shows Medicare for All Could Save US $600 Billion Annually on Paperwork and Other 'Useless Bureaucracy'

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Industry wants you to think universal healthcare is too expensive. In reality, it's our current system that's a wasteful, unsustainable disaster."

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"Don't Tell Me We Can't Afford Medicare for All," Says Sanders, After NYT Details Insanely Higher Costs of US Healthcare

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

The report compares prices of hospital care, outpatient procedures, and...

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Insurance Industry Clearly 'Terrified,' Says Sanders, As Lawmakers Admit Lobbyists Helped Them Write Attacks on Medicare for All

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We are taking on the big-money interests who have an army of lobbyists trying...

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Biden Plan 'Preserves Corporate Greed' Rotting Nation's Healthcare System, Says Sanders Campaign

Jayapal Calls Out 2020 Democrats Who Attack Medicare for All With 'Arguments of Republicans and Insurance Companies'

Two Leading Economists Say Medicare for All Would Give Workers 'Biggest Take-Home Pay Raise in a Generation'

'It Is Really Sad': Sanders Rips Biden for Deploying Insurance Industry Talking Points Against Medicare for All

For Supporting Medicare for All, Biden Accuses Sanders and Warren of "Playing Trump's Game and Trying to Con the American People"

Media Outlets Use Study of Healthcare Plan That Is Not Sanders' Medicare for All Bill to Fearmonger Cost of Medicare for All

Buttigieg Denounced for Spouting 'Pack of Lies' About Medicare for All While Swimming in Insurance Industry Cash

Despite Obstruction by Capitol Police, Progressive Groups Deliver 2.2 Million Petitions to Democrats Still Not Backing Medicare for All

Warnings of 'Stealth Privatization' Effort as Trump Signs Executive Order Expanding Medicare Advantage Plans

'On Message as Always': Sanders Uses Heart Procedure to Promote Medicare for All as #GetWellBernie Trends

Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All

Faced With Soaring Costs of Private Insurance, Poll Shows 58% of Small Business Owners Support Medicare for All

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Physicians for a National Health Program

Doctors Prescribe Medicare-for-All: Single Payer Reform Endorsed by America's Largest Medical Specialty Society and Recommended in Open Letter from Thousands of Physicians...

Physicians for a National Health Program

Health Care Paperwork Cost U.S. $812 Billion in 2017, Four Times More Per Capita Than in Canada

Physicians for a National Health Program

Medicare for All Unlikely to Cause Surge in Hospital Use: Harvard Study

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Fran Quigley

How to Win the Holiday Healthcare Debate With Your Conservative Relatives

Stephen Marks

Paying for 'Medicare for All'? No Problem

Ralph Nader

25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections

Sam Pizzigati

Make America… More Like Canada

Tim Wilkins

The AMA Gets Out of the Way of #MedicareForAll

Bonnie Castillo

Medicare for All Means Real Choice: One Health Card, Good Anywhere You Go

David Dayen

Warren's Medicare for All Moment Was Critical

Bonnie Castillo

Medicare for All Is Coming... Because Even the "Insured" Are Not Safe in This For-Profit System

Dylan Dusseault

You Know Nothing John Delaney... About Medicare for All

Maude Barlow

In the Face of Right-Wing Strongmen and an Economy Rife With Insecurity, We Must Reject the Politics of Despair