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Posts tagged as “single-payer”

Jeff Barth Says the Magic Words: Single-Payer

Yeah, yeah, U.S. House candidate Jeff Barth can make a good campaign video. But here's a signal to us Wellstone-Kucinich-McGovern Democrats that Barth can make good policy on health care. On SDPB's South Dakota Focus last Thursday, Jeff Barth and…

Medical Loss Ratio Paves Way for Single Payer? Let’s Hope So!

Mr. President, did you pull a switcheroo? Did you take single-payer off the table just to hand it to me under the table? Rick Ungar thinks so. He says the medical loss ratio provision of the Affordable Care and Patient…

Hope! Vermont Pushing State Single-Payer Health Insurance!

Republicans are cooing over Rep. Paul Ryan's "budget," a utterly unserious plan based on flim-flam math that doubles the national debt while hammering low-income folks and destroys Medicare and Medicaid. (As an afterthought, the Ryan plan also puts Kristi Noem…

Judge Hudson Reminds Me: We Need Single-Payer!

I am not fond of the health insurance mandate included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I agree with Michael Moore that people aren't cars. If health insurance is so important that it warrants a government intervention in…