Medicare for all really is 'the only answer'
By the Editorial Board
The Capital Times (Madison, Wis.), March 16, 2016
Dr. Quentin Young, one of the greatest economic and social justice campaigners of the modern era, has died at age 92. Young served as a personal physician for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which provided medical support for activists during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. He helped to shape and advance the call for an understanding of health care not as a commodity but as a human right.
Young was a friend and ally of this newspaper, a source of insight and inspiration for many years, and an ally in our campaigning for universal health care, which dates back to the days when Capital Times founder William T. Evjue was cheering on the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman to establish a national health care program. Over the years, we celebrated Young’s work and joined him and his dear friends, the late Madison area physicians Gene and Linda Farley, in championing efforts to establish a single-payer “Medicare for all” health care system in the United States.
http://www.pnhp.org/print/news/2016/march/medicare-for-all-really-is-the-only-answer
The Capital Times (Madison, Wis.), March 16, 2016
Dr. Quentin Young, one of the greatest economic and social justice campaigners of the modern era, has died at age 92. Young served as a personal physician for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights, which provided medical support for activists during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. He helped to shape and advance the call for an understanding of health care not as a commodity but as a human right.
Young was a friend and ally of this newspaper, a source of insight and inspiration for many years, and an ally in our campaigning for universal health care, which dates back to the days when Capital Times founder William T. Evjue was cheering on the efforts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman to establish a national health care program. Over the years, we celebrated Young’s work and joined him and his dear friends, the late Madison area physicians Gene and Linda Farley, in championing efforts to establish a single-payer “Medicare for all” health care system in the United States.
http://www.pnhp.org/print/news/2016/march/medicare-for-all-really-is-the-only-answer
Why business should favor a single-payer plan
By Tom DeLoe, Ph.D.
Gettysburg (Pa.) Times, March 10, 2016
If I were in business, I would favor a single-payer health plan. Instead of paying private insurance companies monthly premiums for health care coverage, each individual and business would pay the government through modest taxes. The government would negotiate health care services and costs for all of its citizens and pay providers directly for their services. Your business would no longer be responsible for the health care of your employees. Your business would pay a 10 percent payroll tax on your payroll directly to the government, and the health care of your employees would be provided by participating doctors and hospitals. So let’s look at what a single-payer system could do for you, your business, and your bottom line.
Gettysburg (Pa.) Times, March 10, 2016
If I were in business, I would favor a single-payer health plan. Instead of paying private insurance companies monthly premiums for health care coverage, each individual and business would pay the government through modest taxes. The government would negotiate health care services and costs for all of its citizens and pay providers directly for their services. Your business would no longer be responsible for the health care of your employees. Your business would pay a 10 percent payroll tax on your payroll directly to the government, and the health care of your employees would be provided by participating doctors and hospitals. So let’s look at what a single-payer system could do for you, your business, and your bottom line.
