Single Payer Health Systems Discussion Forum - Democratic Underground Forums

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This message was self-deleted by its author 1 Hiawatha Pete Mar 2023 Mar 2023 11 5161

Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief 0 ck4829 Mar 2023 Mar 2023 3 3818

Doctor reveals insurance companies want you to 'die as quickly as possible' 10 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 17 7178

How a For-Profit Healthcare System Generates Mistrust of Medicine 0 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 3023

US still has the worst, most expensive health care of any high-income country 4 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 5732

Record High in U.S. Put Off Medical Care Due to Cost in 2022 1 ck4829 Feb 2023 Feb 2023 1 3920

Debt, crowdfunding, or death: America's very broken healthcare system 2 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 5 3499

It's Getting Tougher to Afford Health Care, Even With Employer-Sponsored Insurance 0 ck4829 Jan 2023 Jan 2023 14 4637

Maternal deaths in the U.S. are staggeringly common. Personal nurses could help 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 20 5585

Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 5151

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 3778

Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 6324

Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 4442

Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 3980

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 2558

The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 5037

How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 10906

How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 3995

They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 25 4931

Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 4873

In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 3217

Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 4246

Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 6149

Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 4805

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 4383

Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 4042

Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 4092

Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 5767

TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 3400

1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 3049

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Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 5930

The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 3545

'These hospitals are robbing y'all': Nurse says she's never paid a hospital bill in her life 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 4355

Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 3381

How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 2306

He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 6311

'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 25196

"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 2948

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 2699

100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 3185

Adam Conover of 'Adam Ruins Everything': Most of the numbers on your medical bills are made up 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 15 4235

The way the United States pays for nurses is broken 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 3336

WTF is wrong with ....... 2 podex101 May 2021 May 2021 12 8148

How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? 34 Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 Dec 2020 1 32176

Yet another stupid insurance issue, this is so bad 5 RazzleCat Aug 2020 Oct 2020 5 17766

Taxes and Health Care 1 SLClarke Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 8466

Drugs most people can only dream about. 1 Prosper Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 9055

Boy, it is quiet in here... 9 disillusioned73 Apr 2018 Aug 2019 4 7379

I need help thinking this through... 10 JustThinking... Jun 2019 Jul 2019 0 9818

Military Health System 2 NewEnglandAutumn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 4501

Vice News; Over 60 House Democrats are forming a Medicare for All Caucus 4 disillusioned73 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 14 7413

Single payer article/interview worth perusing.. 5 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Feb 2018 2 7496

When does Obamacare enrollment end December 15? 5 bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 7229

I think this belomngs here as well.. 0 disillusioned73 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 6 4888

This single payer "group" has had NO activity lately.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Aug 2017 5 8202

Well.. at least Jimmy Carter supports.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 2 6819

Sean Spicer & single payer.. 0 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 5608

The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California 3 SHRED Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 7075

In the mindset of the Trumpeteer: 0 lambchopp59 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 5116

Retired Mine Workers Are Getting Their Health Care Cut Off 5 ymetca Mar 2017 Mar 2017 11 7041

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My thoughts on Single-Payer 8 SHRED Oct 2016 Jan 2017 3 6449

Gov. Mark Dayton is pitching a $500,000 study of moving Minnesota to a single-payer-- 2 eridani Mar 2016 Oct 2016 5 6140

One Payer States has a Facebook group 0 eridani Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 7322

Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care 4 Eugene May 2016 Jun 2016 8 5416

Med Students Rally at BCBS for Single Payer 2 ILMediaProgressives May 2014 Jun 2016 8 5016

Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video) 3 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 1 6025

Join the Online Single-Payer Book Club! 5 eridani Mar 2016 May 2016 8 6642

�The right to regulate has to be preserved� How We can make a bigger difference than anything else 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 2 4167

The GATS and South Africa's National Health Act: A Cautionary Tale (Threatens Affordable health care 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 3 3653

'We need fundamental changes': US doctors call for universal healthcare 4 Eugene May 2016 May 2016 17 4313

*Is it true that Department Heads of (for profit)Healthcare Facilities get a bonus every quarter 0 Hiraeth Apr 2016 Apr 2016 0 3796

Koch Brothers Attempt to Kill Single-Payer Health Care in Colorado 1 eridani Mar 2016 Mar 2016 6 3837

Report from The United States: State Health Reform Flatlines (2008) 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 4186

Why Haven't CA Dems Reintroduced Single Payer for CA? 4 stopbush Nov 2015 Mar 2016 2 4613

Can anybody think of a more tragic month on any other mailing list? 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 4150

Single Payer Guide to 2016 Election - from HealthcareNOW! 0 ReallyIAmAnOptimist Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 3300

On Kenneth Thorpe's Analysis of Senator Sanders' Single-Payer Reform Plan 2 forest444 Feb 2016 Mar 2016 4 3617

The real reason our health care is SO screwed up isn't what we all think- Its completely different! 3 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 8 5068

�New Public Option� Not a Public Option 10 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Mar 2016 6 6850

Just checked my new ACA rates [View all] 160 RayLib Dec 2015 Feb 2016 19 67426

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