Believe it or not, says economist Robert H. Frank, President Trump and congressional Republicans, while flailing and failing in their efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, are actually proposing health care benefits that can best be delivered with a single payer, “Medicare for All” plan. They have good reasons to support single […]
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Universal health care for ailing New York
It wouldn’t take much to convince most New Yorkers — both employees and employers — that they will pay substantially more for health care coverage in 2019 than they do today. But what would it take to convince them that the state could save $45 billion annually in health care costs, while providing all New […]
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Seeking health rights
More than half of the nation’s 44.6 million uninsured don’t earn enough to pay for health insurance, according to a recent report in the American Hospital Association News. And they’re not eligible for coverage through public programs. In New YorkState, about 415,000 children have no health-care coverage, according to the Children’s Defense Fund’s November 2006 […]
