Why This Isn’t the Time for a Public Health Insurance Option or Medicare for Some

Staff / Truthdig Mar 29, 2017 To begin to solve the health care crisis, we need a system based on health and the money to pay for it. House Resolution 676 is the model for that system. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan

By Alexandra Rosenmann / AlterNet Mar 28, 2017 Democrats on Capitol Hill are gloating about the demise of the American Health Care Act. The Vermont senator is about to do them one better. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges and Dr. Margaret Flowers Discuss How to Fix the Health Care System (Video)

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Feb 21, 2017 Insurance companies pitting "patients and health professionals against each other" have led the U.S. into crisis, Flowers tells the Truthdig columnist. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Establishment Democrats Fight to Defeat Medicare-for-All Ballot Measure in Colorado

By Nika Knight / Common Dreams May 23, 2016 Pro-Clinton Democrats have joined Big Pharma and state Republicans in an effort to defeat a first-in-the-nation ballot measure calling for a statewide single-payer health care plan. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Don’t Let The Wall Street Journal Scare You Away From Bernie Sanders’ Budget Proposal

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 17, 2015 One of the authors of a study that the Murdoch-owned rag used this week to try to scare voters into believing the progressive candidate's federal budget proposals would be prohibitively expensive says that in actuality the Sanders plan would cost the country far less than what it would normally spend. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Obama Apology That Is Needed

By Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Nov 18, 2013 My fellow Americans, tonight I want to apologize for the results of my efforts in reforming U.S. health care. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Oct 10, 2013 The for-profit health-insurance industry in the United States is profoundly inefficient and costly, and a sane and sustainable alternative exists -- single-payer, otherwise known as expanded and improved Medicare for all. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers: The Case for Medicare

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Aug 6, 2012 With Medicare marking its 47th anniversary last week, Bill Moyers, who was a key aide to President Lyndon Johnson when it was passed, has a radical idea on how to save the health care program: Make it available to everyone. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Health Care: Give the People What They Want

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 21, 2012 Most Americans want pretty much the same outcome from health care reform, and it's not what either major-party candidate is offering. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )