The Hospital Under Medicare for All
Our goal shouldn’t be to lower hospitals’ prices, but to eliminate them entirely. Medicare for All is the way to achieve that.
22 Articles by: Adam Gaffney
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Adam Gaffney is a physician whose work has appeared in Salon, Dissent, and In These Times. He blogs at theprogressivephysician.org.
The Socialist Case for Santa Claus
Old St Nick is egalitarian and internationalist; he disregards free-market mores and nation-state borders. Socialists should embrace Santa Claus.
Do We Need Pfizer?
A plan to take on Big Pharma — and create and distribute lifesaving drugs.
Obamacare Lives
Trump’s moves to “sabotage” Obamacare are hardly a death blow for the health law.
Medicare for All Should Be a Litmus Test
Don’t believe the critics. Medicare for All is the most realistic way to win universal, equitable health care.
After Trumpcare
Republicans wanted to repeal Obamacare and gut Medicaid. Instead they galvanized the push for Medicare for All.
The Case Against the Public Option
We have the capacity to wage a transformative health care fight in the days ahead. Medicare for All or bust.
The Washington Post Is Selling Snake Oil
Our friends at the Washington Post are waging a brave campaign against Medicare for All.
Five Lessons From Trumpcare’s Collapse
With the demise of Trumpcare, there’s no better time to fight for single-payer.
Obamacare’s Original Sin
We can resist Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare without providing cover for the law’s deep ideological flaws.
Health Care in the Age of Trump
There is no uniquely Trumpian health care agenda. The danger is the enactment of the GOP’s reactionary proposals.
Socialize the EpiPen
The EpiPen mess shows that we need drugs that function as real social goods, not rent-producing commodities.
Obama on Obamacare
President Obama’s new paper defending the Affordable Care Act only shows why we need single-payer health care.
Saving the NHS
Britain’s junior doctors’ strike isn’t just about pay — it’s about preserving a health system based on need, not profit.
What Obamacare Can’t Do
Single-payer is still the best way to achieve universal health care.
How Class Kills
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
Just Another Business
The Knick sharply captures American health care’s historic inequities.
Your Wallet or Your Life
A lifesaving drug’s overnight price hike shows why we must fight for a radically different health care system.
From Exchange to Egalité
However the Supreme Court rules, Obamacare isn’t enough. We need a more fundamentally egalitarian health care system.