The contest to secure the Democratic party nomination for President of the USA has brought health care to the forefront of public discourse, with much of the discussion dominated by the merits of Medicare for All, a comprehensive single-payer national health-care programme. The questions raised in this debate have brought a welcome focus on specific policy options for addressing the country's myriad health-care challenges. But largely missing has been the issue of social care, particularly th...
Month: February 2020
[World Report] Medicare for All scrutinised in Democratic primaries
On March 3, 14 states will pick their nominees for the US presidential election. The feasability of a single payer insurance plan is a key issue. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
Bill Gates’s plan to tackle a possible pandemic only works if governments handle health care
The Covid-19 epidemic has yet to go global, yet there are fears among public health professionals it could be our century’s Spanish flu.
The 1918 pandemic circled the world three times over two years, infecting a third of the popul...
Parscale: New states will ‘come in play’ for Trump over Democrats’ health care policies
Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for President Trump's reelection bid, said Democratic candidates pushing policies to move toward universal health care will help the Trump campaign expand the electoral map in November....
The cost of American health care could help coronavirus spread in the US
That Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, will spread widely in the United States is now considered a matter of when, not if. There are 60 known cases of the disease in the US, including at least one person with no known foreign travel or contact wit...
Millions of uninsured Americans like me are a coronavirus timebomb | Carl Gibson
I haven’t gone to the doctor since 2013. When you multiply my situation by 27.5 million, that’s a scary prospect
Like 27.5 million other Americans, I don’t have health insurance. It’s not for a lack of trying – I make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to buy a private health insurance plan on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Since I can’t afford to see a doctor, my healthcare strategy as a 32-year-old uninsured American has been simply to sleep eight hours, eat veget...
Nikki Haley responds to Biden: ‘I will put my brain up against yours anytime’
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed former Vice President Joe Biden (D) on Thursday after Biden appeared to suggest that Haley did not have the "brains" to expand Medicaid when she was governo...
Listen to how precious-metals sellers psychologically manipulate elderly conservatives
“There is an evil that’s against us,” the precious-metals salesman says to his elderly, conservative client on the phone. Later, he adds, “they want to see this country go down in flames.”
The dramatic language is part of the sales pitch at Metals.com, cau...
