The key issue in the emerging national health care debate is the role of the federal government. While some Members of Congress favor a “single-payer” national health insurance system—”Medicare for ...

Single-payer health care is still a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians are moving to support it, a new survey finds. Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong ...

A proposal for a new state-based, single-payer health care system is now in committee in the Michigan House of ...

Six Napa residents joined 120 other health care activists at a march and rally in San Francisco on Saturday endorsing National Single Payer Day of Action. The “People over Profit” event started ...

A majority of NH residents support extending the recently expired Obamacare subsidies, which were the cause of the government ...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has called for a universal health-care plan to address the nation's affordability crisis, and supporters say there’s no time to wait. Many are backing legislation from U.S. Sen.

My medical colleagues and I regularly see patients who have waited far too long to seek care and who have suffered needlessly as a result. Why? Because they either totally lack health insurance or ...

Those of us who have long pushed for universal, single-payer health care for every Vermonter are well aware that health insurance costs for education staff — including teachers, ...

Other states will be watching the debate play out in Sacramento. Earlier this month, a California assembly committee approved two measures to overhaul the state's health care system and provide ...

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President Donald Trump claimed a victory Thursday after the House approved a more free-market approach to health care. Then he capped it off by praising a country with government-run, universal health ...