Rural hospitals are already struggling. Medicare-for-all could make it worse.
Month: August 2019
Coordinating Care Of Mind And Body Might Help Medicaid Save Money And Lives
Tennessee's innovative Medicaid program is offering bonuses to mental health providers who help make sure their Medicaid patients get preventive help and treatment for physical ailments, too.
(Image credit: Blake Farmer/WPLN)
The Health 202: 2020 Democrats are fighting over universal health care details. Voters may not want that.
New research suggests ambivalence and confusion about policy details.
Before Trump criticized the urban poverty he uses to attack Democrats, he profited from it
Cities are the problem, President Donald Trump told a typically riled-up crowd Thursday night in Cincinnati, and their problems are Democrats’ fault.
The latest iteration of the president’s evolving attack on urban — and specifically majority-black — communities expanded past Baltimore to encompass Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. In each case, he said, “these communities have been run exclusively by Democrat politicians” whose tapping of federal programs amounts...
There’s a party running on unpopular ideas in 2020, and it’s not the Democratic Party
The Republican Party has a problem. It’s abandoned the kind of popular reforms that will appeal to middle-of-the-road voters, and insists on running on unpopular ideas.
Worse, instead of rallying behind a sensible, moderate candidate with a history of winning elections in a blue state, the GOP frontrunner for the 2020 nomination is an unpopular former reality show host with little experience in elected office, and who has literally never won the popular vote in any election.
Bernie Sanders on “irrational” health care, stance on Elizabeth Warren
Sanders also addressed his friendship with fellow Medicare for All supporter and 2020 challenger Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Sanders: People do not love their health insurance companies
2020 Democratic candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, weighs in on why President Trump is a 'pathological liar,' why he says as president he would be an 'organizer-in-chief', what Medicare for all means and why he's calling for tuition-free colleges.
Read more
The problem from hell facing anyone who wants single-payer health care
Earlier this week, Senator and presidential candidate Kamala Harris (D-CA) released an outline for her version of “Medicare For All.” The plan would give everyone the immediate right to buy into Medicare as an alternative to private insurance, then would gradually transition everyone into an “expanded Medicare system” over the course of ten years.
Though Harris says that she would guarantee “universal coverage,” her end goal is not technically a s...
25% of Americans are disabled. So why aren’t the Democratic candidates talking about it?
July 26th marked the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). While normally folks would ignore this year and focus on the act’s more momentous upcoming 30th anniversary, given that we are in the midst of a presidential campaign, this anniversary deserves our...
