Single Payer
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What’s up with US life expectancy?
U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
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The False Promise of a Government Takeover of our Health Care System
My goal today is to expose the false promise of a fully government-run healthcare system — “Medicare for All,” as some progressives style it. Under this vision, private insurance would be illegal, and all Americans would be enrolled in a single, federally run insurance plan. That’s why some people call ...
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Learn more about Harris' single payer support
Will Harris offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants? Look no further than California
Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants ...
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American Healthcare Broken? Says Who?
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. health system dead last among 10 developed nations. But is healthcare in the United States really that bad? A close look at the data suggests otherwise. Read the full article in Newsmax.
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A British Lord’s Warning: Steer Clear of Single-Payer Healthcare
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords. Today, the tables have turned. This month, Lord Ara Darzi presented the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with a devastating report on the state ...
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Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
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Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
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Learn why support for single-payer continues to fall
Kamala Harris aims to hide her long record of backing Medicare for All
Just 37% of likely voters support a government takeover of the country’s health insurance system and a concomitant ban on private health insurance, according to a survey conducted by Echelon Insights and sponsored by the Pacific Research Institute. And support for such a single-payer system has been eroding, dropping three ...
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Read the latest about VP Harris' healthcare platform
Harris commits to worst of Biden healthcare policies
One proposal Harris has explicitly backed would enshrine President Joe Biden’s enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are slated to expire in 2025. “Republicans want to let those credits expire, increasing premiums,” the Democratic platform asserts. “Democrats will fight to make them permanent.” Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
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U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
What’s up with US life expectancy?
U.S. life expectancy is, surprisingly enough, on the rise. According to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Americans can expect to live 80.4 years in 2050, up from 78.3 years in 2022. But it’s rising even more in other countries. In 2050, the United States ...
The False Promise of a Government Takeover of our Health Care System
My goal today is to expose the false promise of a fully government-run healthcare system — “Medicare for All,” as some progressives style it. Under this vision, private insurance would be illegal, and all Americans would be enrolled in a single, federally run insurance plan. That’s why some people call ...
Learn more about Harris' single payer support
Will Harris offer health coverage to undocumented immigrants? Look no further than California
Actions speak louder than words. That adage is worth remembering as Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, try to minimize their records on granting public health coverage to those who are in the country illegally. Walz signed legislation in Minnesota that allowed such immigrants ...
American Healthcare Broken? Says Who?
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund ranks the U.S. health system dead last among 10 developed nations. But is healthcare in the United States really that bad? A close look at the data suggests otherwise. Read the full article in Newsmax.
A British Lord’s Warning: Steer Clear of Single-Payer Healthcare
Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans sounded the alarm about the oppressive government policies being propagated by British lords. Today, the tables have turned. This month, Lord Ara Darzi presented the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care with a devastating report on the state ...
Read about the Trump and Harris health care plans
Trump Has a Plan for Healthcare
Harris, by contrast, has been mum on whether she continues to support a government takeover of the health insurance system as she did during her first run for the presidency. Instead, she has said that she wants to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and extend President Joe Biden’s ruinously expensive scheme ...
Kamala Harris’ worst plan yet: bringing the NHS to America
Something, of course, must be done. Less than one in four people are satisfied with the NHS and its outdated centralised system of universal coverage, which routinely fails to provide adequate services. Some 7.6 million patients, including individuals suffering from cancer, are waiting to start treatment. About half have waited ...
Learn why support for single-payer continues to fall
Kamala Harris aims to hide her long record of backing Medicare for All
Just 37% of likely voters support a government takeover of the country’s health insurance system and a concomitant ban on private health insurance, according to a survey conducted by Echelon Insights and sponsored by the Pacific Research Institute. And support for such a single-payer system has been eroding, dropping three ...
Read the latest about VP Harris' healthcare platform
Harris commits to worst of Biden healthcare policies
One proposal Harris has explicitly backed would enshrine President Joe Biden’s enhanced Obamacare subsidies, which are slated to expire in 2025. “Republicans want to let those credits expire, increasing premiums,” the Democratic platform asserts. “Democrats will fight to make them permanent.” Read the full article at the Washington Examiner
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
