It would be one thing if all that cost bought a decent standard of living for industry employees and their families rather than going mostly to make a handful of wealthy execs and investors even more obscenely rich. But the insurance industry is notoriously miserly and demanding of the people who work there, at least the ones who don’t sit in c-suites.
For every hand-ringer that decries the insane cuts to Medicaid etc, where's the full throated ROAR demanding Medicare for All. We always have money for another bomber, never any for a hospital.
I tire of the "How will we pay for it" chorus. This question is never asked of the Defense, I mean War, budget. The US can absolutely provide a public Healthcare option. We just need politicians with balls and spines.
I apologize for not yet having an opportunity to read this article but it looks to be very informative and most likely is closely tied to both the 1960’s when Nixon & Keizer struck a deal to shift our healthcare system into the hands of capitalists who were ramping up their efforts to overthrow a friendlier system that blended health & social services into a government designed to protect people.
Again, I need to refer everyone back to the 1971 Confidential Memo that Lewis Powell wrote to the US Chamber of Commerce which provided a comprehensive plan and blueprint for undermining democracy that has been carried out to perfection over the past 50-plus years. If you think Project 2025 is bad, which it IS, then your mind will be blown by how it dovetails into Powell’s blueprint for destroying every sector of our society, from education to how corporate media is controlled by a small group of billionaires who are basically white Christian nationalists fascists that want it all to themselves.
Thank you so much for furnishing me with the Masterplan. It’s 5 AM and I just forwarded this link to our state attorney general’s office as they continue to be one of the legal agencies that are working to take down the traitors who have overthrown our democracy.
The health care delivery system is crumbling. Insurance is a risk pool: seems to me, the larger the risk pool, the broader the risk is spread. So if everyone is in the same risk pool, we're all in the same boat (to mix a metaphor.) Health care and insurance (which simply created a middle man) never should have been financialized. Parallel systems (public/private) are what (imho) have almost destroyed the NHS in UK, which was for decades the envy of the world. Look: we're in a death spiral in the US. Morally and financially bankrupt. The boil is gonna burst and it's gonna be gross and infectious. When the time comes to rebuild (if there's anything or anyone left to build) we need to bring our best selves to feed, serve, help and care for one another. It's all any of us are here for. ☮️🕊☯️
Adding public competition to the existing profound health care administrative complexity adds another layer of complexity. The real cure is creating the relative simplicity public financing: Medicare for All, single payer. This is the only way to tame the extractive incentives of our currently vertically integrated health care corporations. We need the savings from administrative simplifying to increase the focus on quality and access for all, as well as to have the power to tame the greed of drug and large hospital corporations.
Use your powerful voice & force elected officials to support soon to be introduced to Congress #PatientsOverProfits Act.
PLUS
The Medicare for all acts, House bill 3069 (Jayapal & Dingle) with over 100 sponsors and Senate bill 1506 (Sanders) with 15 cosponsors were introduced in Congress on April 29. Call your representative at 202–858–1717 and senators at 202–519–0494 to cosponsor these bills.
Please call today -and as often as possible.
Passing Medicare for all will save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars and will prevent 500,000 medical bankruptcies EVERY YEAR!
Thanks for your recommendations and encouragement. I’ve been advocating for single-payer since the 90s and I remember seeing the energy and focus go out of a movement that was beginning to take shape at that time after Clinton got elected, and Hillary took on healthcare as her project. I remember hearing at the time that her first meeting was with the heads of the largest insurance companies and healthcare providers.
Back in those days those of us who identified as “left“ had a joke. Why can’t the American eagle fly?
Because it has two right wings.
Since that time, as I’m sure you know, there have been several more attempts, all of which have been either scuttled, or diluted to the point of missing the point.
I think the bottom line is that neither party is interested in making single payer healthcare happen.
What I think is exciting about Corbin’s proposal is that it provides a workable vision for how this type of change could become a reality. And I agree with him 100% that this moment provides a real opening, since so many Americans seem to have completely lost faith in both political parties.
It looks as if the Democratic establishment will be very slow to change. And that they will more or less continue to bank on the “you must vote for us because Trump is so terrible” messaging, which has failed so badly, I think because it assumes “going back” to a “normal“ that has now been thoroughly rejected.
Again, I think Corbin is dead right when he argues that progressives must offer a credible vision of how things could be better. And I think that he is building that, beautifully.
So that is what I would like to help with! Building the movement. Bringing together all of the amazing progressive leaders who are emerging — Mamdani, Platner, Talarico — with those who have been carrying the torch up to now, like Bernie, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren.
I can add something hopeful. Corbin's piece acknowledges the domain of Big Medicine healthcare. However for ten years, as in many fields, the most creative work is being done on the fringes of the field. In medicine the fringes are called Functional Medicine and Alternative-Complementary Healthcare.
What's happening began with a few health biohackers in the 1990s. Since 2010, Biohacker podcasts are now a major force in spreading natural and lower cost solutions to virtually every health problem imaginable. In 2025 not only Wikipedia but now also Google search is limiting these results for holistic health approaches. This is the measure of how much Big Medicine fears the biohackers eating away at Big Medicine's profits.
A significant use case on the fringes is licensed MDs giving up their medical license so they can recommend holistic, functional, nutritional approaches, remedies and solutions. Dr. Tom Cowan was one of the first and most prominent. I guesstimate the number of MDs doing this is now in the low hundreds.
What's new in the emerging field of formerly-licensed MDs starting their own health practice is Hair Analysis 2.0 and the Oligoscan. Hair Analysis 2.0 often goes by the initials HTMA. Blood tests are notoriously terrible at informing doctors and patients about the health of cells and tissues. Blood tests only tell you about blood--which is heavily monitored and tweaked by our system to preserve crucial biomarkers. You can be very sick and it won’t show up on blood tests. HTMA gets at how unhealthy people are, what they are starving for; and at its best, has both a mineral replacement knowledge-base and a mineral ratio knowledge-base (ratios is where much of the magic is). HTMA tests are $100-$200.
Oligoscan is about same price as HTMA tests. These are eventually going to become more common as home health test equipment.
Coming from the healthcare supply chain—we have monopolies extracting value at every turn: insurers, pharma, and GPOs running pay-to-play schemes that create shortages and reward suppliers with a history of recalls...
Paid placement isn’t harmless, it directly impacts patient safety.
It would be one thing if all that cost bought a decent standard of living for industry employees and their families rather than going mostly to make a handful of wealthy execs and investors even more obscenely rich. But the insurance industry is notoriously miserly and demanding of the people who work there, at least the ones who don’t sit in c-suites.
Thank you! This is a great template for rebuilding America!
For every hand-ringer that decries the insane cuts to Medicaid etc, where's the full throated ROAR demanding Medicare for All. We always have money for another bomber, never any for a hospital.
Proof that "we can't afford it" is bullshit.
I tire of the "How will we pay for it" chorus. This question is never asked of the Defense, I mean War, budget. The US can absolutely provide a public Healthcare option. We just need politicians with balls and spines.
I apologize for not yet having an opportunity to read this article but it looks to be very informative and most likely is closely tied to both the 1960’s when Nixon & Keizer struck a deal to shift our healthcare system into the hands of capitalists who were ramping up their efforts to overthrow a friendlier system that blended health & social services into a government designed to protect people.
Again, I need to refer everyone back to the 1971 Confidential Memo that Lewis Powell wrote to the US Chamber of Commerce which provided a comprehensive plan and blueprint for undermining democracy that has been carried out to perfection over the past 50-plus years. If you think Project 2025 is bad, which it IS, then your mind will be blown by how it dovetails into Powell’s blueprint for destroying every sector of our society, from education to how corporate media is controlled by a small group of billionaires who are basically white Christian nationalists fascists that want it all to themselves.
Please see the attachments below:
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/
https://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/
Dear Sue,
Thank you so much for furnishing me with the Masterplan. It’s 5 AM and I just forwarded this link to our state attorney general’s office as they continue to be one of the legal agencies that are working to take down the traitors who have overthrown our democracy.
Forever grateful,
David
The health care delivery system is crumbling. Insurance is a risk pool: seems to me, the larger the risk pool, the broader the risk is spread. So if everyone is in the same risk pool, we're all in the same boat (to mix a metaphor.) Health care and insurance (which simply created a middle man) never should have been financialized. Parallel systems (public/private) are what (imho) have almost destroyed the NHS in UK, which was for decades the envy of the world. Look: we're in a death spiral in the US. Morally and financially bankrupt. The boil is gonna burst and it's gonna be gross and infectious. When the time comes to rebuild (if there's anything or anyone left to build) we need to bring our best selves to feed, serve, help and care for one another. It's all any of us are here for. ☮️🕊☯️
And defund our military to a great extent (to pay for this). Thanks
Adding public competition to the existing profound health care administrative complexity adds another layer of complexity. The real cure is creating the relative simplicity public financing: Medicare for All, single payer. This is the only way to tame the extractive incentives of our currently vertically integrated health care corporations. We need the savings from administrative simplifying to increase the focus on quality and access for all, as well as to have the power to tame the greed of drug and large hospital corporations.
You oughta read the piece.
Excellent! How can I help?
Use your powerful voice & force elected officials to support soon to be introduced to Congress #PatientsOverProfits Act.
PLUS
The Medicare for all acts, House bill 3069 (Jayapal & Dingle) with over 100 sponsors and Senate bill 1506 (Sanders) with 15 cosponsors were introduced in Congress on April 29. Call your representative at 202–858–1717 and senators at 202–519–0494 to cosponsor these bills.
Please call today -and as often as possible.
Passing Medicare for all will save thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars and will prevent 500,000 medical bankruptcies EVERY YEAR!
Hi Susananda
Thanks for your recommendations and encouragement. I’ve been advocating for single-payer since the 90s and I remember seeing the energy and focus go out of a movement that was beginning to take shape at that time after Clinton got elected, and Hillary took on healthcare as her project. I remember hearing at the time that her first meeting was with the heads of the largest insurance companies and healthcare providers.
Back in those days those of us who identified as “left“ had a joke. Why can’t the American eagle fly?
Because it has two right wings.
Since that time, as I’m sure you know, there have been several more attempts, all of which have been either scuttled, or diluted to the point of missing the point.
I think the bottom line is that neither party is interested in making single payer healthcare happen.
What I think is exciting about Corbin’s proposal is that it provides a workable vision for how this type of change could become a reality. And I agree with him 100% that this moment provides a real opening, since so many Americans seem to have completely lost faith in both political parties.
It looks as if the Democratic establishment will be very slow to change. And that they will more or less continue to bank on the “you must vote for us because Trump is so terrible” messaging, which has failed so badly, I think because it assumes “going back” to a “normal“ that has now been thoroughly rejected.
Again, I think Corbin is dead right when he argues that progressives must offer a credible vision of how things could be better. And I think that he is building that, beautifully.
So that is what I would like to help with! Building the movement. Bringing together all of the amazing progressive leaders who are emerging — Mamdani, Platner, Talarico — with those who have been carrying the torch up to now, like Bernie, AOC, and Elizabeth Warren.
I can add something hopeful. Corbin's piece acknowledges the domain of Big Medicine healthcare. However for ten years, as in many fields, the most creative work is being done on the fringes of the field. In medicine the fringes are called Functional Medicine and Alternative-Complementary Healthcare.
What's happening began with a few health biohackers in the 1990s. Since 2010, Biohacker podcasts are now a major force in spreading natural and lower cost solutions to virtually every health problem imaginable. In 2025 not only Wikipedia but now also Google search is limiting these results for holistic health approaches. This is the measure of how much Big Medicine fears the biohackers eating away at Big Medicine's profits.
A significant use case on the fringes is licensed MDs giving up their medical license so they can recommend holistic, functional, nutritional approaches, remedies and solutions. Dr. Tom Cowan was one of the first and most prominent. I guesstimate the number of MDs doing this is now in the low hundreds.
What's new in the emerging field of formerly-licensed MDs starting their own health practice is Hair Analysis 2.0 and the Oligoscan. Hair Analysis 2.0 often goes by the initials HTMA. Blood tests are notoriously terrible at informing doctors and patients about the health of cells and tissues. Blood tests only tell you about blood--which is heavily monitored and tweaked by our system to preserve crucial biomarkers. You can be very sick and it won’t show up on blood tests. HTMA gets at how unhealthy people are, what they are starving for; and at its best, has both a mineral replacement knowledge-base and a mineral ratio knowledge-base (ratios is where much of the magic is). HTMA tests are $100-$200.
Oligoscan is about same price as HTMA tests. These are eventually going to become more common as home health test equipment.
To learn more: https://www.mercola.com and Youtube podcasts
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This is what we've all been working toward: The Final Strike. This is not a march, it is not a protest, it is an UPRISING.
THE LARGEST NONVIOLENT MASS MOBILIZATION IN US HISTORY. Millions of people in DC Nov 5. The fall of the Trump administration.
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You want change?
DC NOV 5
This is what we've all been working toward: The Final Strike. This is not a march, it is not a protest, it is an UPRISING.
THE LARGEST NONVIOLENT MASS MOBILIZATION IN US HISTORY. Millions of people in DC Nov 5. The fall of the Trump administration.
This only happens if YOU make it happen. refusefascism.org PASS IT ON
Canada cured their healthcare crisis w/ socialized medicine. We'd better do the same or no American pharmaceuticals will ever be purchased again.
The Capitalist Investor Class has been gaslighting the public for 60 Yrs to obfuscate their transfer of wealth from the middle class...
Keep questioning the prevailing state sanctioned propaganda!
Make Integrity American Again...
Be Ungovernable!
And let's not forget: the rig-job that systematically creates all marginalized groups now applies to creating a shortage of doctors, through allowing fewer medical school applicants and other nefarious tricks. https://www.ama-assn.org/about/leadership/physician-shortage-will-worsen-unless-congress-acts-now
Coming from the healthcare supply chain—we have monopolies extracting value at every turn: insurers, pharma, and GPOs running pay-to-play schemes that create shortages and reward suppliers with a history of recalls...
Paid placement isn’t harmless, it directly impacts patient safety.