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Investigation: Many U.S. hospitals sue patients for debts or threaten their credit 2 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 12 4822

Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis 4 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 8 3330

Half of ambulance rides yield surprise medical bills. What's being done to protect people? 1 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 0 6030

Royal Ransomware Threat Takes Aim at U.S. Healthcare System 6 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 10 3842

Hospitals' Dishonest Billing Practices Add More Pain to CA Small Businesses 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 3 3722

Medical bills remain inaccessible for many visually impaired Americans 0 ck4829 Dec 2022 Dec 2022 2 2348

The US Spends Almost as Much on Healthcare as the Rest of the World Combined and Has One of the 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 4630

How one Ohio city is tackling the 'uniquely American problem' of medical debt 11 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 33 9984

How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care 2 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 10 3655

They want to buy medical debt and forgive it. Some hospitals are saying: "Pass" 3 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 25 4559

Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but companies profit. We're paying for drugs twice 5 ck4829 Nov 2022 Nov 2022 12 4333

In Knoxville, the burden of medical debt reinforces a long history of segregation 0 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 2990

Jack Shickel lived 35 days. His medical bill was $3.4 million 4 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 3744

Survey: Nearly half of Americans rate healthcare as poor or failing 7 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 5439

Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care 2 ck4829 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 4471

Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt 2 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 4044

Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 7 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 3373

Just 12% of Americans Think the US Healthcare System Runs 'Very' or 'Extremely' Well 1 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 3824

Insurance Refused to Cover Her Vomiting Condition. So She Barfed Outside Their Office. 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 22 5133

TikToker says hospital charged her $300 for confirmation of her daughter's death 0 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 2 3173

1.9m patient records exposed in healthcare debt collector ransomware attack 3 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 6 2645

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills 7 ck4829 Aug 2022 Aug 2022 8 5302

The looming disaster in the mental healthcare system 4 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 9 3117

'These hospitals are robbing y'all': Nurse says she's never paid a hospital bill in her life 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 6 4142

Jim Hightower: The health care industry's medical debt rip-off 2 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 3 3095

How to Dispute Surprise Medical Bills 0 ck4829 Jul 2022 Jul 2022 1 2095

He and his wife both got cataract surgery. His bill was 20 times higher than hers 6 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 7 5640

'Want To Cry': Bill for Uninsured Hospital Stay in Italy Stuns Americans [View all] 52 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 109 19317

"We didn't have any hope left": Medical debt crippling U.S. families 0 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 8 2702

Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives 2 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 4 2364

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100 Million People in America Are Saddled With Health Care Debt 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 2 2909

Adam Conover of 'Adam Ruins Everything': Most of the numbers on your medical bills are made up 1 ck4829 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 15 3919

The way the United States pays for nurses is broken 3 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2022 Jun 2022 12 2927

WTF is wrong with ....... 2 podex101 May 2021 May 2021 12 7856

How do you move from for profit to single payer/Medicare for all? 34 Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2019 Dec 2020 1 29305

Yet another stupid insurance issue, this is so bad 5 RazzleCat Aug 2020 Oct 2020 5 17279

Taxes and Health Care 1 SLClarke Oct 2019 Oct 2019 4 8245

Drugs most people can only dream about. 1 Prosper Sep 2019 Sep 2019 4 8796

Boy, it is quiet in here... 9 disillusioned73 Apr 2018 Aug 2019 4 6680

I need help thinking this through... 10 JustThinking... Jun 2019 Jul 2019 0 9062

Military Health System 2 NewEnglandAutumn Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 4183

Vice News; Over 60 House Democrats are forming a Medicare for All Caucus 4 disillusioned73 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 14 7001

Single payer article/interview worth perusing.. 5 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Feb 2018 2 6975

When does Obamacare enrollment end December 15? 5 bucolic_frolic Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 6706

I think this belomngs here as well.. 0 disillusioned73 Sep 2017 Sep 2017 6 4678

This single payer "group" has had NO activity lately.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Aug 2017 5 7738

Well.. at least Jimmy Carter supports.. 5 disillusioned73 Jul 2017 Jul 2017 2 6321

Sean Spicer & single payer.. 0 disillusioned73 Jun 2017 Jun 2017 0 5402

The Single-Payer Breakthrough in California 3 SHRED Jun 2017 Jun 2017 5 6715

In the mindset of the Trumpeteer: 0 lambchopp59 Mar 2017 Mar 2017 3 4939

Retired Mine Workers Are Getting Their Health Care Cut Off 5 ymetca Mar 2017 Mar 2017 11 6613

My thoughts on Single-Payer 8 SHRED Oct 2016 Jan 2017 3 5870

Gov. Mark Dayton is pitching a $500,000 study of moving Minnesota to a single-payer-- 2 eridani Mar 2016 Oct 2016 5 5818

One Payer States has a Facebook group 0 eridani Jun 2016 Jun 2016 2 7120

Poll Says Majority of Americans Prefer 'Medicare For All' Health Care 4 Eugene May 2016 Jun 2016 8 4979

Med Students Rally at BCBS for Single Payer 2 ILMediaProgressives May 2014 Jun 2016 8 4641

Single Payer will "Never Ever Come to Pass" - Hillary Clinton (video) 3 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 1 5647

Join the Online Single-Payer Book Club! 5 eridani Mar 2016 May 2016 8 6157

“The right to regulate has to be preserved” How We can make a bigger difference than anything else 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 2 3957

The GATS and South Africa's National Health Act: A Cautionary Tale (Threatens Affordable health care 0 Baobab May 2016 May 2016 3 3443

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'We need fundamental changes': US doctors call for universal healthcare 4 Eugene May 2016 May 2016 17 3843

*Is it true that Department Heads of (for profit)Healthcare Facilities get a bonus every quarter 0 Hiraeth Apr 2016 Apr 2016 0 3586

Koch Brothers Attempt to Kill Single-Payer Health Care in Colorado 1 eridani Mar 2016 Mar 2016 6 3574

Report from The United States: State Health Reform Flatlines (2008) 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 3947

Why Haven't CA Dems Reintroduced Single Payer for CA? 4 stopbush Nov 2015 Mar 2016 2 4192

Can anybody think of a more tragic month on any other mailing list? 0 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 2 3904

Single Payer Guide to 2016 Election - from HealthcareNOW! 0 ReallyIAmAnOptimist Mar 2016 Mar 2016 1 3033

On Kenneth Thorpe's Analysis of Senator Sanders' Single-Payer Reform Plan 2 forest444 Feb 2016 Mar 2016 4 3345

The real reason our health care is SO screwed up isn't what we all think- Its completely different! 3 Baobab Mar 2016 Mar 2016 8 4627

“New Public Option” Not a Public Option 10 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Mar 2016 6 6071

Just checked my new ACA rates [View all] 160 RayLib Dec 2015 Feb 2016 19 52200

A "die-hard conservative Republican" embraces Universal Health Care 21 Saviolo Sep 2012 Jan 2016 67 13929

Single Payer conference: Friday, October 30 at 7:30PM – Sunday, November 1 at noon 0 eridani Aug 2015 Aug 2015 4 2859

National Single Payer conference in Chicago October 2015 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 3 3064

HR 676 call-in 10/16 3 eridani Oct 2013 Oct 2014 9 3729

Socialst city council member Kshama Sawant on organizing for single payer 0 eridani Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 2986

Archive of state single payer conference in Oakland 0 eridani Sep 2014 Sep 2014 2 3175

Today a area of aging 3 ebbie15644 Jul 2014 Jul 2014 0 3680

ACA Exchanges: Here is a Basic Resource Guide 9 Zorra Sep 2013 May 2014 6 7485

Thursday, May 22, 2014, is National Single-Payer Lobby Day! 0 eridani May 2014 May 2014 5 2871

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