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Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 5991
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How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 9874
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 3596
They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 25 4519
Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 4280
In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2952
Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 3685
Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 5387
Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 4420
Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 3997
Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 3246
Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 3772
Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 5004
TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 3139
1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 2563
Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 5218
The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 3064
'These hospitals are robbing y'all': Nurse says she's never paid a hospital bill in her life 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 4107
Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 3052
How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 2058
He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 5542
'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 18533
"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 2649
Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 2319
100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 2861
Adam Conover of 'Adam Ruins Everything': Most of the numbers on your medical bills are made up 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 15 3873

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The way the United States pays for nurses is broken 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 2889
WTF is wrong with ....... 2 podex101 May 2021 May 2021 12 7829
How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? 34 Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 Dec 2020 1 28809
Yet another stupid insurance issue, this is so bad 5 RazzleCat Aug 2020 Oct 2020 5 17231
Taxes and Health Care 1 SLClarke Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 8205
Drugs most people can only dream about. 1 Prosper Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 8750
Boy, it is quiet in here... 9 disillusioned73 Apr 2018 Aug 2019 4 6614
I need help thinking this through... 10 JustThinking... Jun 2019 Jul 2019 0 9010
Military Health System 2 NewEnglandAutumn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 4121
Vice News; Over 60 House Democrats are forming a Medicare for All Caucus 4 disillusioned73 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 14 6962
Single payer article/interview worth perusing.. 5 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Feb 2018 2 6917
When does Obamacare enrollment end December 15? 5 bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 6653
I think this belomngs here as well.. 0 disillusioned73 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 6 4643
This single payer "group" has had NO activity lately.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Aug 2017 5 7678
Well.. at least Jimmy Carter supports.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 2 6265
Sean Spicer & single payer.. 0 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 5363
The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California 3 SHRED Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 6663
In the mindset of the Trumpeteer: 0 lambchopp59 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 4918
Retired Mine Workers Are Getting Their Health Care Cut Off 5 ymetca Mar 2017 Mar 2017 11 6554
My thoughts on Single-Payer 8 SHRED Oct 2016 Jan 2017 3 5834
Gov. Mark Dayton is pitching a $500,000 study of moving Minnesota to a single-payer-- 2 eridani Mar 2016 Oct 2016 5 5778
One Payer States has a Facebook group 0 eridani Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 7083
Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care 4 Eugene May 2016 Jun 2016 8 4926
Med Students Rally at BCBS for Single Payer 2 ILMediaProgressives May 2014 Jun 2016 8 4591
Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video) 3 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 1 5607
Join the Online Single-Payer Book Club! 5 eridani Mar 2016 May 2016 8 6068
“The right to regulate has to be preserved” How We can make a bigger difference than anything else 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 2 3925
The GATS and South Africa's National Health Act: A Cautionary Tale (Threatens Affordable health care 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 3 3408
'We need fundamental changes': US doctors call for universal healthcare 4 Eugene May 2016 May 2016 17 3807
*Is it true that Department Heads of (for profit)Healthcare Facilities get a bonus every quarter 0 Hiraeth Apr 2016 Apr 2016 0 3553

Single Payer Health Systems Continued...

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Koch Brothers Attempt to Kill Single-Payer Health Care in Colorado 1 eridani Mar 2016 Mar 2016 6 3545
Report from The United States: State Health Reform Flatlines (2008) 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 3913
Why Haven't CA Dems Reintroduced Single Payer for CA? 4 stopbush Nov 2015 Mar 2016 2 4132
Can anybody think of a more tragic month on any other mailing list? 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 3859
Single Payer Guide to 2016 Election - from HealthcareNOW! 0 ReallyIAmAnOptimist Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 3008
On Kenneth Thorpe's Analysis of Senator Sanders' Single-Payer Reform Plan 2 forest444 Feb 2016 Mar 2016 4 3315
The real reason our health care is SO screwed up isn't what we all think- Its completely different! 3 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 8 4585
“New Public Option” Not a Public Option 10 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Mar 2016 6 6008
Just checked my new ACA rates [View all] 160 RayLib Dec 2015 Feb 2016 19 49755
A "die-hard conservative Republican" embraces Universal Health Care 21 Saviolo Sep 2012 Jan 2016 67 13710
Single Payer conference: Friday, October 30 at 7:30PM – Sunday, November 1 at noon 0 eridani Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 2825
National Single Payer conference in Chicago October 2015 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 3 3039
HR 676 call-in 10/16 3 eridani Oct 2013 Oct 2014 9 3697
Socialst city council member Kshama Sawant on organizing for single payer 0 eridani Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2956
Archive of state single payer conference in Oakland 0 eridani Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 3144
Today a area of aging 3 ebbie15644 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 3653
ACA Exchanges: Here is a Basic Resource Guide 9 Zorra Sep 2013 May 2014 6 7438
Thursday, May 22, 2014, is National Single-Payer Lobby Day! 0 eridani May 2014 May 2014 5 2845
Business Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare 2 eridani Apr 2014 Apr 2014 4 3777
Why is single payer better than multiple payers? 13 Pterodactyl Mar 2014 Apr 2014 0 6372
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