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The "Public Option": The Lefts Trojan Horse for Government-Run Healthcare The Left wants to do away with private health insurance coverage. Having failed thus far to enact a government-run single-payer system, they are proposing a ‘public option” plan to do the job. The Left wants to do away with private health insurance coverage. Having failed thus far to enact a government-run single-payer system, they are proposing a ‘public option” plan to do the job. They tout a “public opt...

Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Software engineer Arion Hardison announced he was building the digital infrastructure for a national Medicare for All program (https://medicare.dev/), starting with phase one: a population health management tool released for HHS and patient use. Medicare.dev initiates the process of providing a single-payer, managed healthcare system to communities by first creating a solid HHS/health-and-wellness infrastructure. T...

PUBLISHED 5:26 AM ET May. 13, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:26 AM EDT May. 13, 2021 SHARE A range of progressive groups on Thursday will begin a formal push for the passage of the New York Health Act, a bill that would pave the way for a single-payer health care system in New York.  The groups include Our Revolution, the political organization formed out of Sen. Bernie Sanderss presidential run in 2016, as well as the New York Progressive Action Netwo...

One important lesson we should draw from the tragic loss of life during the coronavirus pandemic is undeniable – socioeconomic differences correlate to...

Single-payer health care measure advances PUBLISHED 5:30 AM ET Apr. 20, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:30 AM EDT Apr. 20, 2021 SHARE A bill that would pave the way for a single-payer health care system in New York cleared the Assembly Health Comittee on Monday as its supporters argue the measure is needed following the COVID-19 pandemic exposing deep flaws in the current system.  Opponents, however, continued to argue on Monday the bill would be ruinou...

Socialism Is Coming to America Yoav Frommer, a leftist who teaches American history in Israel, argues in the Washington Post that Bernie Sanders’ democratic socialism could become the view of the majority of the Democrat Party. Actually, some of us think it already is. Frommer says the Democrat party was built on socialism. In the near future, it is likely we will have a President Bernie Sanders and a socialist congress. If Bernie was young, handsome, witty, couldn’t you see him winning ri...

Universal health care: California tries again March 6, 2021 “A single-payer health system represents the belief that health care is truly a human right. Our current system results in unjust outcomes and these inequities are underscored especially now, exacerbating economic downturns for working families who have lost their income and meaningful access to health care.” – Assemblymember Ash Kalra, co-sponsor of AB 1400 along with the California Nurses Association (CNA). by Barry Hermanson C...

Calls To Action from the Green Party of Santa Clara County Do you like this post? Stop HR-1, the Voting Rights Bill That Restricts Voter Choice HR-1 is sold as a way to get money out of politics and to protect voters, but it contains a poison pill for democracy and opposition parties like the Green Party in its campaign finance reform section. HR1 quintuples the amount of money Green presidential campaigns will be required to raise to qualify for federal matching funds: from $5,000 in each of 2...

Parler and National File battle over Article V, there is only one right answer Dan Bongino came down hard on The National File for comments made about the Article V Convention that the Parler CEO Mark Meckler hopes to launch. Bongino is a co-owner of Parler. About Article V, “While backed by a number of prominent conservative figures, it could leave the Constitution wide open to be rewritten and amended by George Soros and other leftists, who support similar attempts to call a convention,�...