Medicare for All

The “Medicare Advantage” Plan to Kill Real Medicare

December 6, 2021 UNAC Editor Capitalism, Economics, Healthcare, Medicare for All

by Thom Hartman, published on MLToday, November 19, 2021 This is very interesting because I have always had an Advantage program and I have wondered how ‘Medicare for All’ would free us from the insurance companies. It never occurred to me that what Thom calls ‘real Medicare’ could actually pay the bills. This does tell us how high the hurdles[…]

Why the U.S. Still Suffers from COVID

September 1, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Human Rights, Medicare for All, Public Health

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, September 1, 2021 Donald Trump was the convenient scapegoat for the first year of the Covid-19 crisis. Austerity, low wage work, housing insecurity, and the profit driven health care system were problematic issues before anyone heard the word Covid-19 or indeed before Trump’s presidency. Every failing of the United States already in[…]

A People’s Vaccine Against a Mutating Virus and Neoliberal Rule.

June 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Medicare for All, Public Health, Resistance, Socialism

by Nicolas J. S. Davies, June 7, 2021 A recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that worries about the COVID pandemic in the United States are at their lowest level since it began. Only half of Americans are either “very worried” (15%) or “somewhat worried” (35%) about the virus, while the other half are “not very worried” (30%) or “not worried[…]

The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All

November 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Medicare for All, Public Health

By Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, November 15, 2020 Health care will be a major issue early in the new Biden/Harris administration. Unemployment is still high with over a million people applying for unemployment benefits last week and 42.6% of working age people without a job. In the United States, losing employment often means losing health insurance. On top[…]

Democratic COBRA Plan Denounced as Costly Taxpayer Gift to For-Profit Industry

May 17, 2020 UNAC Editor Breaking News, Capitalism, Featured, Healthcare, Medicare for All

by Jake Johnson, published on Common Dreams, May 13, 2020 For weeks, progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups pressed the House Democratic leadership to support an emergency expansion of Medicare coverage to the tens of millions of people who have lost their jobs and their employer-provided health insurance during the coronavirus pandemic. But in their newly introduced 1,815-page coronavirus relief bill,[…]

Diseased System in a Shut-Lockdown, Never a Better Time to Fight for Socialism

April 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Capitalism, Economics, Medicare for All, Political Analysis, Public Health

by Glen Ford, Published on Black Agenda Report, April 23, 2020 The current health and economic crisis will dramatically accelerate the processes of corporate monopolization, finance capital dictatorship, and working class precarity and immiseration. The only cure is socialism. “The duopoly parties’ refusal to establish a national health care system, beginning with Medicare for All, can only be understood in[…]

Pelosi Sabotages Medicare for All but Corporate Media Pretend Not To Notice

February 14, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Journalism, Legislation, Medicare for All, Political Corruption, Poverty and Sanctions

by Glen Ford, published on Black Agenda Report, February 14, 2019 When the top Democrat secretly plots to subvert a proposal supported by the vast majority of her party, that’s supposed to be news — unless the corporate media decide otherwise. “The plutocrat-owned press is protecting Pelosi from the extreme embarrassment.” Thanks to Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid in 2016, his[…]