- Biden cites delays, cost when asked about Medicare for All veto https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486749-biden-cites-delays-cost-when-asked-about-medicare-for-all-veto 302 comments politics
- A new study reveals the US could save $600 billion in administrative costs by switching to a single-payer, Medicare For All system https://www.businessinsider.com/single-payer-system-could-save-us-massive-administrative-costs-2020-1 3667 comments politics
- Would ‘Medicare for All’ Save Billions or Cost Billions? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/upshot/medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders-cost-estimates.html 3 comments politics
- Study: 'Medicare for all' projected to cost $32.6 trillion https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/study-medicare-for-all-projected-to-cost-dollar326-trillion/ar-bblf3wp?ocid=ansmsnnews11 11 comments worldnews
- Trump proposes reduction of drug costs under Medicare https://apnews.com/7f2bfe8daa064229bd8f9628bd9a21dc/trump-proposes-reduction-of-drug-costs-under-medicare 5 comments politics
- Trump proposes reduction of drug costs under Medicare https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/trump-proposes-reduction-of-drug-costs-under-medicare/2018/02/09/ba960be4-0d63-11e8-998c-96deb18cca19_story.html?utm_term=.614c111dea17 20 comments politics
- Comparing administrative costs for private insurance and Medicare http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/sep/20/bernie-s/comparing-administrative-costs-private-insurance-a/ 5 comments politics
- The Public Option Act: a 4-page bill to let any American citizen buy into Medicare at cost http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/87053-hr-4789-and-the-public-option-the-way-forward-rep-alan-grayson 20 comments politics
- Remarks by President Biden on Protecting Social Security and Medicare and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/01/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-social-security-and-medicare-and-lowering-prescription-drug-costs/ 40 comments politics
- Lancet Study Author says Sanders' Medicare plan is fully costed. https://bernie.substack.com/p/breaking-lancet-study-author-says 43 comments worldnews
- CNN Moderators, Alarmed by Cost of Medicare for All, Ignore Price Tag of Endless War https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/14/cnn-moderators-alarmed-cost-medicare-all-ignore-price-tag-endless-war 2922 comments politics
- Why ‘Medicare for All’ Could Both Raise Taxes and Lower Costs https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/31/upshot/medicare-for-all.html 177 comments politics
- “Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less”: New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years https://truthout.org/articles/new-study-shows-medicare-for-all-would-save-us-5-1-trillion-over-ten-years/ 55 comments moderatepolitics
- The Latest: Trump aims to reduce drug costs under Medicare https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-latest-trump-aims-to-reduce-drug-costs-under-medicare/2018/02/08/ac8d76c0-0d3d-11e8-998c-96deb18cca19_story.html?utm_term=.c71ca5973096 13 comments politics
- Medicare for all would help keep costs down http://www.thehour.com/opinion/article/medicare-for-all-would-help-keep-costs-down-8638485.php 35 comments politics
- Romney's Medicare Voucher Plan Would Increase Costs: That's a Fact http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/medicare-vouchers-increase-costs-thats-a-fact 4 comments politics
- Typical retired couples will collect $1 million or more in Social Security and Medicare. This is more than they paid in, and the cost will fall on today's workers. http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748703864204576314802790577650.html?mod=rss_opinion_main 151 comments business
- A new study examining the use of high-cost drugs among patients with colorectal cancer and non-small cell lung cancer found those insured through Medicare Advantage received less expensive cancer drugs compared to others on Traditional Medicare. https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/study-reveals-cost-differences-between-medicare-advantage-and-traditional-medicare-patients-in-cancer-drugs 29 comments science
- 'We Need Medicare for All': Progressives Condemn Bezos Decision to Shift More Health Insurance Costs onto Washington Post Staffers https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/23/we-need-medicare-all-progressives-condemn-bezos-decision-shift-more-health-insurance 99 comments politics
- Opinion | Nurses Know the Human Costs of Care. That’s Why Many Want ‘Medicare for All.’ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/opinion/nurses-medicare-for-all-health-insurance.html 21 comments politics
- With Medicare as the sole payer, not only can costs be controlled and universal access guaranteed, but we can institute national quality measures as well. http://thecitizen.com/letters-editor/medicare-all-what-us-needs 58 comments politics
- Psssst. Obamacare is working. The law Republicans hate is already lowering Medicare costs. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/ten-miles-square/2011/08/psssst_obamacare_is_working031600.php# 319 comments politics
- Shifting costs of Medicare to beneficiaries doesn't lower health care spending http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/19/996346/-shifting-costs-of-medicare-to-beneficiaries-doesnt-lower-health-carespending 3 comments reddit.com
- Medicare-for-All Plan Detailed by Sanders: Improves Health Care, Cuts Costs https://berniesanders.com/press-release/medicare-plan-detailed-sanders-improves-health-care-cuts-costs/ 42 comments politics
- 20 Top Economists Endorse Medicare for All as Best Plan to Cut Costs, Save Tens of Thousands of Lives Each Year https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/11/20-top-economists-endorse-medicare-all-best-plan-cut-costs-save-tens-thousands-lives 59 comments politics
- The most expensive health care option of all? Do nothing. ‘Medicare for all’ debate sidesteps cost of current system. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/09/medicare-for-all-health-care-096367 78 comments politics
- Republican Budget Will End Medicare, Force Seniors To Pay $6,359 More For Health Care And Cost More Than Two Million Private Sector Jobs http://democrats.senate.gov/gop-budget/ 4 comments politics
- The enduring appeal of Medicare for All is understandable, given the fragmented, inequitable, costly, profit-driven, and wasteful nonsystem that prevails in the United States. http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-single-payer-20160422-snap-htmlstory.html 5 comments politics
- House Republicans claim that their medicare reform costing them the NY election just means that "they need to do a better job explaining it to voters." What does this sound like to you? http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/house-republicans-admit-they-need-to-do-better-job-selling-medicare-plan-after-election-loss/?hpt=t2 8 comments politics
- Paul Ryan Still Doesn’t Get It: Scare tactics? Seniors have every right to be scared. His plan would eviscerate Medicare by privatizing it with vouchers that would fall further and further behind the rising cost of health insurance. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/paul-ryan/ 8 comments politics
- Private health care is more efficient? Industry insider reveals that Medicare's administrative costs are 3%. A private health insurance company like CIGNA? 20% and up. http://trueslant.com/justingardner/2009/08/04/the-myth-of-private-health-care-efficiency/ 7 comments politics
- Medicare will stop paying the costs of treating infections, falls, objects left in surgical patients and other things that happen in hospitals that could have been prevented. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070818/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/medicare_hospital_errors;_ylt=aphgriy.3lacdtgkyrs1ncqs0nue 9 comments reddit.com
- Feds Kill Program that Costs Half What Medicare Part D Does -- To Increase Enrollment in Medicare Part D http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2007/03/forcing-states-into-corporate-giveaway.html 9 comments reddit.com
- "Prescription" fruits and vegetables would work: The “cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid” provides compelling evidence for the distribution of food prescriptions and subsidies, say researchers https://www.inverse.com/article/54182-medicare-medicaid-food-prescriptions 198 comments science
- Does the gig economy mean it’s time for Medicare-For-All?People would be able to move jobs easily, innovate and build their own business, or work in the growing class of gig-economy jobs without the fear of bankruptcy from medical costs. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/07/opinion-does-the-gig-economy-mean-its-time-for-medicare-for-all/ 8 comments politics
- Jill Stein hopes to replace the Affordable Care Act by extending Medicare to everybody with a single payer public health program. In Stein’s platform, she also advocates lowering the cost of prescription drugs, expanding access to contraceptives and abortion http://lawstreetmedia.com/elections/who-is-jill-stein/ 24 comments politics
- The crown jewel of Sanders' plan, though, is the implementation of Medicare for All. The creation of a universal health plan could push down healthcare costs dramatically by allowing the government to use its clout to negotiate drug and device prices. http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2016/02/07/bernie-sanders-income-tax-brackets-how-much-would.aspx 92 comments politics
- "Medicare for all would save the average family thousands of dollars a year in health care costs. Secretary Clinton is inaccurate in suggesting that Republican governors would be able to circumvent the law and deny implementation in their states. The bill Sen. Sanders introduced was very clear." https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-calls-for-medicare-for-all/ 48 comments politics
- GOP Congressmen Would Like Democrats to Please Stop Mentioning That They Voted to Kill Medicare. It is at this point that Republicans have suddenly decided that the problem of rising health-care costs is just too important to play politics with. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/05/gop_congressmen_would_like_dem.html 17 comments politics
- US health system plagued by high costs, waste. Private insurance companies have higher administrative costs (14%) than public insurance programs like Medicare or Medicaid, which come in at 3-5%. The US spends far more on administrative costs than France (single payer system), 7% compared to 1.9%. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090909/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamahealthsystem 6 comments reddit.com