California progressives’ single-payer health care fever dream is back. This time, the cost could hit half a trillion dollars ...

The progressive goal of single-payer health care has become a staple of Democratic platforms, even if it faces as many hurdles as ever.

Assemblymember Ash Kalra says attacks on the Affordable Care Act underscore the urgency of creating state-run health ...

Fact checked by Jillian Dara Key Takeaways A single-payer system is when the government pays healthcare claims using taxes.Universal coverage means everyone has health insurance, either through the ...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) released a 46-page report, “The Case for Healthcare Freedom,” earlier this year. The paper is a comprehensive review of the multiple challenges in health care today, which have ...

Daniel C. Bryant, MD, lives in Cape Elizabeth. In his Nov. 23 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“When health insurance breaks down, we break too“), Dr. Jeffrey Barkin, former president of the Maine Medical ...

Charlie Munger looked at the American healthcare system and gave the kind of diagnosis that does not come with a gentle bedside manner. The longtime Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman, Republican and ...

My medical colleagues and I regularly see patients who have waited far too long to seek care and who have suffered needlessly as a result. Why? Because they either totally lack health insurance or ...

Dr. Butch Ware, Green Party candidate for governor of California, puts universal healthcare at the top of his priority list. Unlike Democratic candidates, he takes no money from Big Pharma or others ...

In November 2016, Colorado voters will consider a ballot measure that would enact a state constitutional amendment creating “ColoradoCare,” a single-payer, government-run health care system in ...

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