Repairers of the Breach's inaugural Gathering in North Carolina on June 4, 2017 features co-hosts the Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, president and senior lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove shifting the moral narrative on the U.S. healthcare debate through an hour of storytelling, music, interviews with community organizers and impacted people, … [Read more...]
NYT: Upshot/Economic View: Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money
By Robert H. Frank, at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, on Twitter @econnaturalist. Our excerpt links to the full-text online here (but there's a paywall before reading one's 11th NYT article each month.) Lingering uncertainty about the fate of the Affordable Care Act has spurred the California legislature to consider adoption of a statewide single-payer … [Read more...]
CAP: AHCA’s State-by-state & Congressional Dist. Coverage Losses
Using data from Congressional Budget Office analysis and Census data, with enrollment statistics from Kaiser Family Foundation; they derive per-state and individual district. NC loses 1.3 Million individuals' coverage, 607,600 from Medicaid, 85,600 from Employer-sponsored insurance and 608,000 from the Individual marketplace To download the table by … [Read more...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren discusses the “monstrosity” Republicans’ health care bill
Senator Elizabeth Warren says the "monstrosity" that Republicans are calling a health care bill will end up killing Americans in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich. Watch the 7:38 minute video here. … [Read more...]
GOP plan on health care would cut coverage and raise costs
Being a father isn’t what it used to be, in a good way. I can participate in my son’s life as much as I wish, unbound by societal expectations, rigid class rules and gender roles that constrained generations before... But as much as things change, some things remain constant. I feel, as my father did, a resounding duty to protect my family from as many dangers as I can. And … [Read more...]
NYT: The Single-Payer Party? Democrats Shift Left on Health Care
Intro by Dr.Kotch: As Margaret Flowers made her way across Central and Western NC two weeks ago, there was a feeling that single payer is no longer an expletive to be deleted. More and more people are talking about it, thanks in part to Bernie Sanders and people like Margaret (and you, dear reader!) who have been advocating for single payer for years without … [Read more...]
Letter: We can do much better than GOP health plan
Ever so close and yet so far: Health insurance protections seem once again at risk of disappearing in the hands of our Republican-led federal government. The newly introduced, hastily assembled MacArthur Amendment to the American Health Care Act may be making its way toward a vote that will take it from House to Senate. This attempt worsens the legislation that Paul … [Read more...]
NC Justice Ctr’s Budget & Tax Ctr’s County-by-County Economic Snapshots, 2017
County Data on the State of the Economy in NC A one-stop spot for all your local data needs. As possible, data at the county level will be posted here on a range of issues to help you document economic conditions in your community. How do people fare where you live? New economic snapshots for all 100 counties The economic picture of counties throughout North Carolina … [Read more...]
Dr’s prescrip.for health insurance: Remove the profit motive
Is single-payer health insurance inevitable? American lawmakers are consumed about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. One path that has been regularly touted as a solution is the single-payer model, which advocates say will assure every citizen has access to equal and quality health care. One of those advocates, Robert Zarr M.D., a … [Read more...]
A single-payer health-care system is needed
Ten years ago, I began transporting sick patients at Forsyth Medical Center. Transporters are some of the hardest working and least recognized workers in the hospital. My job was to transfer patients as smoothly and comfortably as possible onto a clean gurney and transport them to the radiology department. Deceptively simple, transporting turned out to be a crash course in … [Read more...]
