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Tri-Committee Health Care Bill Deficit Neutral

…set the stage for lowering the future growth in health care costs. Net Medicare and Medicaid savings of $465 billion, coupled with the $583 billion revenue package reported today by…

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…favors Medicare for all: a singlepayer health care system, with the federal government as the sole insurer. This would remove the profit motive from health insurance but not from health