Posts Tagged ‘Ralph Nader’
21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare
By Ralph Nader – Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal. In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They…
Read MoreWhy Are US Health Costs So High? Follow the Bills
By Ralph Nader – Looking at millions of individual bills that makeup the 2.7 trillion dollars of annual health care costs opens a gigantic window on the massive waste, redundancy, profiteering, fraud and sometimes criminal over-billing. Here is a partial example of what I mean, in the words of Philip M. Boffey, the estimable science…
Read MoreDennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader: A Discussion on Healthcare, Politics and Reform
From Democracy Now! – Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announced on Wednesday he would switch his vote on the Democrat-led healthcare reform bill and support the legislation even though it does not create a public option. Kucinich’s decision came two days after he spoke with President Obama aboard Air Force One on their way to…
Read More“You Don’t Cut Deals with the System that Has to Be Replaced”
Ralph Nader on Secret White House Agreements with the Drug Industry From Democracy Now – The Obama administration admitted last week it promised to oppose proposals to let the government negotiate drug prices and extract additional savings from drug companies. In return, drug companies reportedly pledged to reduce costs by up to $80 billion. The…
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