This Saturday, nurses, physicians, and medical students plan to walk out of their clinics and onto the streets of Chicago to confront the American Medical Association at the organization’s annual meeting. But it has long been the public relations face of America’s private health insurance system, which treats healthcare as a commodity. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans borrowed a whopping $88bn last year simply to pay for medical expenses. Single-payer activism is growing on medical school campuses across the nation, perhaps a preview of what the next generation of doctors will expect. The public agrees with the evidence that Medicare for All is the answer to our broken health system.

Source: The Guardian June 06, 2019 06:00 UTC