Posts by Benjamin Day
Krugman & Klein Against Puppies and Rainbows
Bernie Sanders’s single payer plan was met with derision from policy writers Paul Krugman and Voxer Ezra Klein. Their criticisms venture even further than the Sanders’s plan, speculating on whether a single payer system is preferable at all. Sanders has offered a puppies-and-rainbows approach to single-payer…this is what Republicans fear liberals truly believe: that they…
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Lyn Tirona
“I used to live by a common ‘Filipino’ trait of ‘sucking it up,’ but with experiences confronting me at work, I can’t ‘shut up’ anymore! I’m fighting for Healthcare as a human right.”
Read MoreDonna Smith
“I have taken a journey from being someone terribly damaged by the dysfunctional U.S. health care system to being a person who believes we can and must change this system.”
Read MoreBenjamin Day
“Although my one significant brush with the health insurance industry was a horrifying experience, I’ve since learned that I was one of the lucky ones: I did not have to file bankruptcy… I was also lucky because I found my new goal in life, which is to make sure that neither myself nor anyone else in this country will ever be a victim of the healthcare system again.”
Read MoreRegister: 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference
Join hundreds of single-payer activists from around the country at the year’s most important movement building event: the 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference!
Read MoreTrump: Single Payer for Everyone Else
Healthcare-NOW’s Benjamin Day takes on Trump’s claim that single payer couldn’t work in the U.S.
Read MoreGALLERY: Uprising for Medicare’s 50th Anniversary!
See our gallery of actions to Protect, Improve & Expand Medicare to all for Medicare’s 50th Anniversary!
Read MoreDon Berwick for Medicare’s 50th: Medicare for All
Don Berwick, former Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid under President Obama, shared this video with us on the 50th anniversary of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid about the need to extend public, universal care to everyone.
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