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Jefferson23

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Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:24 PM Feb 2016

Single Payer Saves Money by Saying No to the Insurance Industry’

Fair and Accuracy in Reporting

February 1, 2016

Janine Jackson: A Washington Post columnist writes that we need to admit that healthcare reform’s twin goals, comprehensive universal insurance and cost control, are at odds. The New York Times reports that a single-payer system requires unpopular taxes, making it, even in the eyes of sympathetic Democrats, politically impossible. And USA Today says the US hasn’t seriously considered single payer because it would cause great disruption to the economy, result in higher taxes, and give the federal government vast new powers.

Well, those claims have some things in common: They’re all untrue, and they’ll all from 1993. It seems the story corporate media tell us about single payer—we want it, it makes a lot of sense, and it can never ever happen—hasn’t changed a great deal. For as long as that media narrative has been abroad, we’ve been checking in with our next guest about how to address it. A primary care physician for many years, Steffie Woolhandler is co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program and professor at the CUNY School of Public Health.

Welcome back to CounterSpin, Steffie Woolhandler.

Steffie Woolhandler: My pleasure.

JJ: Single payer is in headlines now because of the election, and the alternative visions for healthcare presented by Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Sanders’ proposal of a single-payer type of system makes him “exciting,” the Washington Post said, but Clinton’s attempt to “bat down hopes” about it make her “the voice of reason.” The Arizona Republic says:

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Single Payer Saves Money by Saying No to the Insurance Industry’ (Original Post) Jefferson23 Feb 2016 OP
And that's the crux of what Sen. Kennedy had in mind when He conceived it, when Hillary was working orpupilofnature57 Feb 2016 #1
That's how I will always think of her Faux pas Feb 2016 #2
k and r Dems to Win Feb 2016 #3
kick :) Jefferson23 Feb 2016 #4
 

orpupilofnature57

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1. And that's the crux of what Sen. Kennedy had in mind when He conceived it, when Hillary was working
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:26 PM
Feb 2016

Barry Goldwater .

 

Dems to Win

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3. k and r
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 07:52 PM
Feb 2016

Steffie Woolhandler has been fighting the good fight for Universal Health Care for decades. She's the best

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