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2,000 US doctors endorse Sanders' single-payer healthcare proposal
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/06/2000-us-doctors-endorse-sande.html An editorial in The American Journal of Public Health, signed by 2,000 MDs, endorses Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" single-payer healthcare system.
The doctors point to the failings in Obamacare -- namely, that it is still expensive, especially for low-income Americans, and it allows private insurers to cream off enormous profits -- and estimates that the proposal could be funded by eliminating the bureaucratic inefficiencies of commercial healthcare insurance and by restoring progressive taxation to the very wealthy.
The doctors point to the failings in Obamacare -- namely, that it is still expensive, especially for low-income Americans, and it allows private insurers to cream off enormous profits -- and estimates that the proposal could be funded by eliminating the bureaucratic inefficiencies of commercial healthcare insurance and by restoring progressive taxation to the very wealthy.
