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F. Douglas Stephenson

Health Care
Stop Wall Street from Grabbing Traditional Medicare

Stop Wall Street from Grabbing Traditional Medicare

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services “Innovation Center” recently announced that by 2030, they will move all traditional Medicare enrollees into a “care relationship” with a 3rd party private, for profit middleman, labeled a “Direct Contracting Entity (DCE) without seniors’ knowledge or consent, and without Congressional oversight. […]

Anti-Vaccination
Demented DeSantis denounces "Hysteria" over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

Demented DeSantis denounces “Hysteria” over Florida Hospitals Filling up with Covid-19 Victims, rejects Masks, Vaccine Mandates

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – Just like the noble from La Mancha named Alonso Quixano, who read so many chivalric romances that he loses his mind and decides to become the knight-errant Don Quixote to revive chivalry and serve his nation, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis similarly has lost his mind and portrayed himself […]

Health Care
Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

Why we need to stop Warehousing the Mentally Ill in Jail: Only Private Prison Corps. Profit

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – By essentially rejecting the provisions of the U.S.Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health, a very well designed 1963 Kennedy era program entitled, “Action for Mental Health” and other attempts to trim mental health budgets and services, many states and localities have opted to spend the same dollars […]

Health Care
Happy Birthday, Medicare: You showed that  public, universal health insurance is superior to private insurance in every way

Happy Birthday, Medicare: You showed that public, universal health insurance is superior to private insurance in every way

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – 56 years ago Congress enacted Medicare to provide health insurance for people ages 65 and older and the disabled regardless of income or medical history. Since 1965, Medicare has become living proof that public, universal health insurance is superior to private insurance in every way. Medicare is more […]

Health Care
Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

Biden’s Bandaid, or Top 8 Reasons why we need Medicare for All

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — Distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping how people think, you can twist their view into ‘unreality economics’ and make them think you are there to help them and not to take money out of them, then you’ve got them […]

Democratic Party
Why we Must pass The Medicare for All Act

Why we Must pass The Medicare for All Act

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – March 17, 2021, was a very bright day in the history of single-payer health insurance and public health in the USA. Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D, WA) and Debbie Dingell, (D., MI) introduced the modern MEDICARE FOR ALL ACT of 2021 (H.R. 1976) in Congress. M4A 2021 is new […]

Epidemics
Biden's Neoliberal American Rescue Health Plan: Covid-19 Showed us Why we Need Single Payer

Biden’s Neoliberal American Rescue Health Plan: Covid-19 Showed us Why we Need Single Payer

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) — President Biden, the Democratic Party and America’s neoliberal vision of world order is rooted in an economic philosophy of privatization and financialization. To assure privatization goals of the 1% oligarchs, distinguished economist Michael Hudson writes that this is achieved by “conquering the brains of a country by shaping […]

Donald Trump
Trump's Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

Trump’s Health Insurance Plan benefits the 1% and Harms all the Rest of Us

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) –Considered a serious danger to the wealth of private corporations and individuals, the highly class-conscious corporate-run, profiteering U.S. business community seeks to contain and reduce the political power of the 99%. Toward this goal, President Trump and the GOP are attempting to terminate Obamacare (ACA) including health plan subsidies […]

Health Care
Can Trump's Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

Can Trump’s Plan to Steal your Social Security, Medicare be Stopped?

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment) – President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans promoting the backlash against the federal government seek to return to an earlier, supposedly golden era in American history. By privatizing Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid while further lowering taxes on the top 1 percent income bracket, […]

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