Aug 6, 2020
Medicare for all: A prescription against deadly COVID capitalism
The United States, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in world history, is also number one in COVID-19 infections and deaths.
medicare
Feb 13, 2020
Canada's pseudo-health care system relies on people getting sick, not staying well
Ed Finn
Federal and most provincial governments continue to deny many thousands of citizens the basic preventive and protective health services that are standard practice in most other advanced nations.
Dec 17, 2019
Defending public health care in Alberta
Talking Radical Radio
Public health care is threatened in all provinces, and especially in Alberta. Sandra Azocar talks about the work of Friends of Medicare to defend public health care in Alberta.
Aug 14, 2019
Canadian health care will be front and centre in both Canadian and U.S. elections
Karl Nerenberg
Many Canadians perceive our system to be more socialized than it actually is, because they think of health care only as doctors' visits and hospitalization.
Mar 14, 2019
U.S. struggle for universal health care has reached a tipping point
After 75 years of debate, with health-care costs spiraling out of control and the quality of medical care falling short of that in single-payer countries, the time is right for Medicare-for-all.
Mar 9, 2018
We will get universal pharmacare only if Canadians mobilize for it as they did for medicare
Dennis Gruending
The Liberals are promising pharmacare but not a universal program. Let's look to the wisdom of medicare founders T.C. Douglas and Emmett Hall on how to proceed.
Sep 7, 2017
Doctors' capitalist ethos and the fight for a fairer tax code
Yves Engler
While nurses defend public health care, doctors have long promoted a capitalist model of medicine that maximizes their wealth and power.
Aug 24, 2017
Canada's public health-care system could soon be expanded to cover prescription drugs
Ed Finn
Medicare originated at the provincial, not federal level -- in Saskatchewan. So could the extension of public health care to include prescription drugs, and even dental and vision coverage.
Jun 29, 2017
Access to health care is a matter of life and death
We need to open the airwaves to include a diversity of voices, including those who are advocating for single-payer health care.
Jun 22, 2017
There is no rational reason why Medicare couldn't be expanded to cover all Americans
As Trumpcare versus Obamacare dominates the cable news, the unreported movement for single-payer health care grows. As with all great shifts in history, when the people lead, the leaders follow.
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