Sentences with phrase «of single payer healthcare»

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Nonetheless, Trump's tweet raises an interesting question: Is the British system of universal free care, via a single - payer «socialized» system, better or worse than the healthcare you get in the US?

This is why there should be a single payer system in place, taking healthcare completely out of the hands and pocketbooks of employers.

Jesus would support universal healthcare and tell the insurance companies to leave that business to the government «of the people «and to stop corruptng our politicians, the ones who would deny us single payer universal healthcare

A system like the UK or parts of Canada (along with the single payer healthcare, so women's healthcare choices weren't financially based) would provide US women with better options than we have now.

Don't think they want that because then they'd have to run on a record of raising spending, raising taxes, single - payer healthcare ect that the majority of NYers don't want.

The Senate Democrats want a Single - Payer full 100 % state takeover of all healthcare.

There's also a list called Levy's «10 shades of blue» that details all the things the country executive did to support Democratic candidates and / or positions, noting, for example, his backing of single - payer healthcare and early endorsement of former Long Island Assemblyman - turned - state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's first statewide run this year.

Assembly Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried, the prime advocate of single - payer healthcare in the legislature, agreed that single - payer healthcare is picking up support: «every day the news from Washington makes the need for and support of the bill stronger.»

«Does Anthony Brindisi plan to publicly stand with Bernie Sanders and national Democrats in support of the socialist pipe - dream known as single - payer healthcare?»

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

If you are a progressive in the city, and wonder why New York can't have single - payer healthcare, grow its stock of rent - regulated apartments, or offer tuition assistance for undocumented immigrants, you can blame Senate Republicans.

More than 40 witnesses offered testimony in a marathon Assembly hearing on a single - payer healthcare bill that has no near - term chance of becoming law.

The council has chosen to back the passage of the New York Health Act, a bill calling for a single - payer healthcare system for all state residents.

For the third year in a row, a bill is traveling through the New York legislature with the goal of creating a statewide single - payer healthcare system — more commonly known as «universal healthcare.»

An evening vote on a bill to establish a single - payer healthcare system dragged on when a number of supporters who had left for dinner needed to be brought back to the chamber before it could receive a majority.

At 11 a.m., Assemblymember Phil Steck will be participating in a discussion hosted by the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences on single payer healthcare in New York, 106 New Scotland Ave., Albany.

It wasn't entirely clear whether he prefers a single payer or universal healthcare system, but in either case it's a dramatic step that no elected Republicans and a limited number of elected Democrats currently support.

In the interview he talks of needing guns to protect ourselves from tyranny and a paragraph later is calling for single payer healthcare and at one point saying to let all immigrants in.

CA Senate just passed «bare bones» version of single - payer healthcare bill (tax that will effectively eliminate health care in CA)

As for your desire for healthcare to be factored into the fossil fuel costs, that is more of guilt propaganda than logical argument.They certainly could not be used for subsidy arguments as the government doesn't pay for all those healthcare costs (we're not a single - payer socialist system in America).

Her bio lists as healthcare topics she had addressed «the false promise of a single - payer system as exists in Canada, pharmaceutical pricing, solving the problem of the uninsured, and strategies for consumer - driven health care.»