- Poll: Democrats Like Both the Public Option and Medicare-for-all, But Overall More People Support the Public Option, Including a Significant Share of Republicans https://www.kff.org/health-reform/press-release/poll-democrats-like-public-option-medicare-for-all-but-overall-more-people-support-public-option-including-significant-share-of-republicans/ 18 comments politics
- Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/15/15787626/mitch-mcconnell-single-payer-medicare-all?utm_campaign=ezraklein&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter 12 comments politics
- Medicare for All would boost wages, expand workers’ options, and likely create jobs | Economic Policy Institute https://www.epi.org/press/medicare-for-all-would-boost-wages-expand-workers-options-and-likely-create-jobs/ 233 comments economy
- The Majority of Americans Aren’t Scared Off by Policies Like Medicare for All https://jacobinmag.com/2020/5/low-income-voters-ideology-2020-election 21 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All policy would likely increase wages and create jobs, new economic analysis shows https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-medicare-all-would-likely-increase-wages-create-jobs-new-economic-analysis-shows-1490800?utm_term=autofeed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#echobox=1583437612 174 comments politics
- Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All policy would likely increase wages and create jobs, new economic analysis shows https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-medicare-all-would-likely-increase-wages-create-jobs-new-economic-analysis-shows-1490800 4 comments politics
- Trump says he'll cut entitlements like Social Security and Medicare if reelected to shrink trillions in national debt https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-cut-funding-entitlements-social-security-medicare-national-debt-reelection-2020-3-1028972301 2061 comments politics
- Biden Accidentally Makes Case for Medicare for All by Admitting Employers Can Take Away Your Insurance—Even If You Like It https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/17/biden-accidentally-makes-case-medicare-all-admitting-employers-can-take-away-your 768 comments politics
- Julian Castro Questions Biden’s Memory at Democratic Debate. Castro’s comment is likely to feed lines of attack from Biden critics, though Castro was wrong—Biden did not misstate whether people would have to opt in to his Medicare plan. https://www.thedailybeast.com/julian-castro-castro-questions-joe-bidens-memory-at-democratic-debate?ref=wrap 45 comments politics
- New Poll Shows 65% of Democrats More Likely to Back 2020 Candidate Who Supports Medicare for All Over Obamacare Tweaks https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/28/new-poll-shows-65-democrats-more-likely-back-2020-candidate-who-supports-medicare 213 comments politics
- Sanders: Biden 'sounding like Donald Trump' on Medicare for All https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/453725-sanders-biden-sounding-like-donald-trump-on-medicare-for-all 118 comments politics
- U.S. counties that heavily favoured Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election were more likely to have high rates of prescription opioid use. For the study, researchers examined the Medicare prescription files of over 3.7 million Americans https://globalnews.ca/news/4293653/donald-trump-voters-prescription-opioids-link/ 25 comments science
- Trump Officials, After Rejecting Obama Medicare Model, Adopt One Like It https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/us/politics/medicare-trump-administration-obamacare.html 6 comments politics
- Medicare and end of life care. Would like some advisement on what options there are. Thank you very much for even reading this title. My mother is on her way out and I'm lost. https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6xb76z/medicare_and_end_of_life_care_would_like_some/ 20 comments personalfinance
- Ryan: 'We are hosed' if we don't tackle entitlements like Medicare http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/paul-ryan-medicare-hosed/ 19 comments politics
- Like the former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein opposes free trade agreements. She also supports a “Medicare for all” plan that would enact single-payer universal healthcare. And like Sanders, she calls for universal free college education. http://www.timesofisrael.com/green-party-nominates-jill-stein-for-president/ 36 comments politics
- Obamacare is flawed, but there is a solution. Medicare for All, would provide comprehensive health care with no deductibles or co-pays. Financing would be federal, much like current Medicare, and paid for largely through progressive taxes. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article75899102.html 333 comments politics
- A single-payer system, like Medicare, is the cure for America's ailing healthcare http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/30/single-payer-cure-healthcare-reform 217 comments politics
- Jim Hightower - The 1 Percent's Cry for Justice: These ultra-wealthy, goes the Forbes narrative, are the "deserving rich," for they are our economy's makers and producers — as opposed to being takers and moochers, like those commoners who get Social Security, Medicare and other government help. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/10-2 3 comments politics
- The evidence is overwhelming that Obama has long wanted exactly what he got: these severe domestic budget cuts and even ones well beyond these, including Social Security and Medicare, which he is likely to get with the Super-Committee created by this bill. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/01/debt_ceiling/index.html 5 comments politics
- According to the Republican Party, America is broke. We can't afford programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, or Head Start. We can't afford workers' collective bargaining rights, healthcare reform, the NIH, or the National Weather Service. But we can somehow afford endless war. http://www.politicususa.com/en/cost-endless-war 61 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
- 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
- I am a Socialist Because I Like the Military, Police, Fire Dept, Library, Post Office, Medicare, Highways/Roads, Polio Vaccine https://twitter.com/#!/thenewdeal 3 comments politics
- GOP Pushes to Cut Entitlements like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid... You know, those things that you're "entitled to" because you've been paying for them your whole life... http://www.frequency.com/video/gop-wants-obama-to-cut-social-security/2650118 8 comments politics
- Unemployment benefits, Social Security and Medicare are not constitutional, according to the man likely to win the Republican Senate nomination in Alaska. http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/joe-miller-social-security-and-medicare-are- 6 comments reddit.com
- But there was nothing like this. To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28rich.html 9 comments history
- We're talking about a well-intentioned, passionate, and deeply confused group of people -- the folks who believe Democrats are "fascists," the president is Hitler, and programs like Social Security and Medicare are socialist, who are now intent on dragging an already far-right party over the cliff. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_01/021955.php 3 comments politics
- Healthcare Reform Is a Huge Candy Grab For Special Interests, Including Things Like $100 Million For an Unknown Hospital And Medicare Coverage For the Asbestos Miners of a Single Town. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/health/policy/21healthcare.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper 3 comments politics
- Rep Weiner's single payer, medicare for all bill, is being scored by the CBO right now. That means it will most likely get a floor vote. This is good news. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/20/795269/-cbo-scoring-rep-weiners-single-payer 9 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
- Private health care is NOT 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/ 37 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
- Ady Barkan Is Making What Is Likely His Last Long Journey — and it’s to Testify in Support of Medicare for All https://theintercept.com/2019/04/30/ady-barkan-is-making-what-is-likely-his-last-long-journey-and-its-to-testify-in-support-of-medicare-for-all/ 4 comments politics
- Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care. After examining millions of medical records, the study found that although spending is concentrated among people who die, there is very little spending on patients whose death within the year is highly likely. http://news.mit.edu/2018/value-late-life-health-care-spending-medicare-0628 93 comments science
- The popular notion that government spending is mostly racial redistribution, promulgated by conservatives like Rush Limbaugh, has made even poor white conservatives anti-government (unless their Medicare is threatened). As a result, not only are we more unequal, but we have inferior infrastructure http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-dream-of-post-racial-america_29.html 239 comments politics
- Sorry Paul Ryan, My Mom Will Live. So what do I think of Paul Ryan and his plan to gut Medicare? I think, in fact I know, that if his plan were enacted, many people like my mother would die. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/29/980276/-sorry-paul-ryan,-my-mom-will-live?via=spotlight 33 comments politics
- Krugman: People Talking About The "ONE TRILLION DOLLAR" Deficit Sound Like Dr.Evil From Austin Powers. These People "Use The Deficit To Argue That We Can't Afford To Maintain Programs Like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. So Its Important To Understand That This Is Completely Wrong." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/opinion/krugman-that-terrible-trillion.html?src=twr 302 comments politics
- Obama To GOP: I’m Serious About Cutting The Social Safety Net. House Republicans emerged from a rare meeting with Obama on Wednesday afternoon saying he assured them he was serious about cutting programs like Social Security and Medicare in order to reduce the long-term deficit. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/house-gopers-obama-told-us-he-wants-to-cut-entitlements.php 11 comments politics
- Former Reagan budget director: "It's clear the nation's desperate fiscal condition requires higher taxes on the middle class, not just the richest 2%. Likewise, entitlement reform requires means-testing Social Security and Medicare, not just squeezing the smaller safety net in areas like Medicaid." http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/04/24/fiscal_madness_is_bipartisan.html 3 comments politics