Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report

National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

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Medicare for All: A Prescription for U.S. Healthcare

with

Paul Krugman

Professor of Economics at Princeton University &

Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times

speaking at a Forum Sponsored by the NYC Chapter

of Physicians for a National Health Program



Not a week goes by that we don’t hear about cutbacks caused by the rising cost of health insurance or the growing number of Americans who are uninsured. And not a week goes by that we do not hear about a new union endorsing Rep. John Conyers single payer health insurance bill HR 676.The bill would create a publicly financed, univeral, privately delivered health care program that expands and improves the already

existing Medicare program. A National Health Insurance Program would save at least $150 billion annually by eliminating the high overhead and

profits of the private, investor-owned insurance

industry and reducing spending for marketing and other satellite services.

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