Working Life

I try to mostly stay away from long monologue and ruminations, leaving the topics to be explored in conversations with my guests. Today, a little change because of the issue—I’m going to dig into a recent important study that shows what is pretty obvious to anyone looking at the numbers—Medicare for All saves money and […]

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If Danielle Martin tells you that single-payer is more popular in Canada than ice hockey and the Royal Mounted Police, trust me, it’s worth believing this doctor from the North—Bernie Sanders does, inviting her to stand with him when he recently unveiled his single-payer, “Medicare for All” plan. Martin is a clear, smart advocate for […]

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Let’s make a small connection here that needs emphasizing because it’s not usually made in the public debate over the new ACA repeal effort: The connection between block grants and the very, very poor general financial outlook at the state level. You probably have read that the Graham-Cassidy proposal creates block grants to states to […]

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It’s not going to happen tomorrow or even next year. But, the day when insurance companies are no longer bankrupting people every single day because of outrageous premiums is drawing closer. Today, Bernie Sanders will unveil a “Medicare For All” bill that rockets the conversation about universal health care to a new level. And he […]

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Let me thank everyone for being here today and for standing up for justice, decency and dignity. Let me also thank you for standing up for democracy and for demanding that the United States government represent all of us, and not just the 1 percent. Let me thank the groups who have helped co-sponsor this […]

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Here is something almost no one is talking about but I take it up in this podcast: the repeal of Obamacare, along with its immoral tossing millions of people off health coverage, will cost the country 3 million jobs and $1.5 trillion in economic activity. I break this down for all of us in simple […]

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24 million. Big number. The number of people who will be added to the ranks of those who have no health care coverage. More people will be sicker. More people will go bankrupt. More people will die. I go deep into the “Make America Sick Again” bill, also known as the repeal of Obamacare, and […]

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Here’s what the political class offers the people as health care options: the Republican “who cares if you die as long as the free market lives” versus saving the Affordable Care Act which delivers huge new profits to the corrupt insurance industry. Seriously? So, it’s a good time for us to go in-depth on the […]

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I have long been an advocate for a single-payer, “Medicare for All” system for the simple economic reality that it is the only way people can get decent health care and not go bankrupt. It’s one of the many reasons I support Bernie. This morning, The New York Times illuminates this with a piece called […]

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In the list of serious “first world problems”–or maybe “first world stupidities”–you can list the hysteria around Ebola in the U.S. i.e., the non-existent Ebola crisis in this country. And, of course, as soon as the media found some other thing to focus on, no one cares anymore that thousands of people–black people–have died and continue to die from Ebola. But, the real point to make is that Ebola isn’t just a disease–it’s a result of relentless global class warfare and corruption.

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