[Occupymendocino] MEDICARE FOR ALL

[Richard Karch]

MEDICARE FOR ALL LABOR BASED  GROUP
 
https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all


A Labor-Based Movement For Medicare for All
by Michael Lighty <https://www.sandersinstitute.com/about/fellow/lighty>
Healthcare is the crossroads where the assault on workers meets the juggernaut of “crony capitalism.” That’s the term used by the mainstream neo-classical and Nobel prize-winning economist Angus Deaton to describe the coziness between the healthcare industry and its government “regulators.” In fact, Deaton argues, how healthcare is financed and delivered is a driver of inequality. 

Registered Nurses see that inequity everyday in hospitals and clinics, where the standard of care patients receive depends on the quality (and cost) of the health plan they buy. Not only the benefits but access to treatments, prescription drugs, certain facilities, the latest technologies, all depend on what you can pay. And guess who has the money to buy the best: the wealthy. So for the first time, after the Great Recession two unprecedented trends occurred: the 1% increased their share of income spent on healthcare, and the average life expectancy people in the US declined.

 “So for the first time, after the Great Recession two unprecedented trends occurred: the 1% increased their share of income spent on healthcare, and the average life expectancy of people living in the US declined.”… cont. at 
https://www.sandersinstitute.com/blog/a-labor-based-movement-for-medicare-for-all
 

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