by Sylvia Moore | Apr 30, 2015 | News
I just recently came across this essay in OpEd News by Cecile Lawrence titled “Universal health care in the U.S. v. the peculiar institution,” connecting the absence to the right to health care in the United States to the legacy of slavery. Furthermore,...
by Sylvia Moore | Oct 7, 2014 | News
As the Ebola pandemic in west Africa dominates news headlines here in the United States, the question is whether this country can adequately deal with such a public health emergency. Already, there are troubling signs. In a for-profit healthcare system such as ours,...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
While we in the single payer movement fight to dismantle the fragmented, for-profit healthcare system, it helps to know how we got here in the first place. Jacobin Magazine’s The Neoliberal Turn in American Health Care by A.W. Gaffney is a worthy longread about...
by Sylvia Moore | Jul 17, 2014 | News
Democracy Now! sat down with Pulitzer-prize winning Los Angeles Times columnist, Michael Hiltzik, to talk about how the media misinterpreted a Congressional Budget Office report about the Affordable Care Act and jobs, and how single payer could fix the law’s...
by Sylvia Moore | Jun 18, 2014 | News
Sometime in May, after nearly three weeks of sitting on pins and needles, I finally got my Blue Shield insurance card in the mail. I had paid my premium before the April 15 deadline, but considering that a) the insurance companies were dealing with millions of new...