In an interview with VTDigger, Potter discussed his advocacy work, his support for a Medicare-for-All system and his analysis of Vermont’s failed effort during Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration to create a single-payer program.
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Single Payer is the Only Hope:
How the Health Insurance Industry is Devouring the Economy
Mingling among the doctors, nurses and activists at the single payer conferences in Chicago this weekend was one Richard Master. More…
21 Ways Canada’s Single-Payer System Beats Obamacare
Canadian style single-payer healthcare is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal—dream on, America. More…
The Corporate Case for Single Payer
Mingling among the doctors, nurses and activists at the single payer conferences in Chicago this weekend was one Richard Master. Master is the owner and CEO of MCS Industries Inc., the nation’s leading supplier of wall and poster frames — a $200 million a year company based in Easton, Pennsylvania. Master has just produced a movie — Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point.
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Hospital megasystems join insurers in a pattern of mergers and acquisitions, patients pay the price. By: Wendell Potter More…
How Hospital Monopolies Drive Up the Cost of Care More…
Washington Monthly
How much does your M.R.I. cost? Buy it first to find out. More…
New York Times
How States Can Hold Hospitals Accountable for their Community Benefit Expenditures More…
National Academy for State Health Policy
George A. Nation III: Solution to health care problem rests in free-market economy. More…
Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article164074332.html
KCUR Radio
http://kcur.org/post/whats-showing-independent-foreign-documentary-film-10#stream/0
Bernie Sanders – Medicare For All
http://fortune.com/2017/08/21/bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-bill-health-care-insurance/
Health Care, Not Taxes is Killing American Competition: By David Steil in WHYY
Alex Azar is Big Pharma Personified. He Must Not Become US Health Secretary: By Gabriel Levitt in The Guardian
Single Payer Critics are Missing the Point: We’re Falling Behind: By Gerald Friedman in Huff Post
Does the Gig Economy Mean it’s Time for Medicare for All?: By Charlie Simmons in the San Jose Mercury News (this was reprinted in the East Bay Times as well)
You Don’t Have to be a Progressive to Like Sanders’ Medicare Plan: By Richard Master in the Hill