Medicare

Social Security and Medicare in crisis as they are underfunded by $175 trillion. Unfunded liabilities are financial promises made with no money held in reserve to support these promises. The bulk of government's total liabilities are unfunded.

Prescribing medication is rewarded, even if the patient does not experience any health improvement at all, and education takes too much time. Doctors' Medicare scores are largely based on medication compliance.

I have a newly-discovered health problem, where during the day, my blood pressure readings are quite normal, or we might even say somewhat on the low side, 105-65. During the night, when I am sleeping, however, the very same indicators are just too high, 168-92. My doctor, a very dedicated physician and caring human being […]
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Those who say Congress is too corrupt to create a publicly funded system of universal health care are likely to be in for a surprise. Recent developments suggest that Americans may see Medicare for all within the next decade. However, since our system of privately funded elections inevitably leads to Congress putting profits over people, […]
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Medicare has been a highly successful, popular and treasured government program that provides health care for seniors, for those with disabilities and for those with end-stage renal disease. The Traditional Medicare (TM) approach spends 98% of its funds on health care and only 2% on administration. A key part of TM is that beneficiaries don’t […]
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This video shows how Pfizer cut a deal with federal authorities and created a shell company to take the rap with a criminal plea that allowed Pfizer to continue doing business with Medicare and Medicaid.

Medicare is a successful and treasured government program that provides health care for seniors, for those with disabilities and for those with end-stage renal disease. The Traditional Medicare (TM) approach provides quality and necessary health care with administrative costs that are far lower than that of private health care insurance such as Medicare Advantage (MA). […]
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While Trump supporters who challenge the incredible, some would say unbelievable, result of the 2020 election are derided as conspiracy theorists by the mainstream media and the Democratic establishment, there are people within the Democratic Party who acknowledge the dirty tricks and outright fraud of the DNC. On Christmas Eve, Progressive Jimmy Dore spoke at […]

An example is the Dellridge Health & Rehabilitation Center in New Jersey, a 96-bed facility, that had 753 reported COVID-19 deaths, the most in the US, but the nursing home itself said it only had 16 COVID-19 deaths.

Eva: "Back in 2015, my opponent switched parties from Republican to Democrat. But if you look at his track record, you couldn't tell the difference. He's voted to roll back important banking regulations adopted under Dodd-Frank, weaken the federal minimum wage bill, he accepts corporate PAC money from private health insurance companies and Big Pharma, and now wants to gut two of our most important and most popular safety nets.