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This review highlights a high degree of analytic consensus that single-payer financing would result in a favorable outcome for system financial burden: efficiency savings exceed added costs. Read more on Plos.org.

“‘Medicare for All isn’t politically viable’ is the refrain from the pundits. But how many non-pundits have they actually talked to about Medicare for All? Democratic Socialists of America activists have been...

William Hsiao knows more about single payer systems than pretty much any other American. What does he think about ‘Medicare for All’? Read more on Politico.com.

The gap in health administrative spending between the United States and Canada is large and widening, and it apparently reflects the inefficiencies of the U.S. private insurance–based, multipayer system. Read more on...

“In the United States, a legion of administrative healthcare workers and health insurance employees who play no direct role in providing patient care costs every American man, woman and child an average of $2,497 per year....

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From the New York Times: “Ro Khanna will introduce legislation that lets states bundle all their health care spending — including Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act dollars and more — to fund a state-level...

The city council of the 2nd largest city in the country passes a resolution on the federal Medicare for All bill HR 1384. Wins in an overwhelming 10 to 1 vote. Read more on CommonDreams.org.

Gov. Newsom and the Legislature recently created and funded a 13-member Healthy California for All Commission to develop options for a statewide healthcare delivery system “through a unified financing system.” Single-payer advocates will have an opportunity to influence outcomes, building on the Commission’s data, research and policy options.

Ed Weisbart, M.D., a family physician and chair of the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program, wrote an op ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch: The fact that the insurance industry is lobbying hard for this...

Watch Dr. Donald Berwick, former Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid, and a long time single payer supporter. This video comes to us via Social Security Works, a great group which works with the single payer...