{"id":375223,"date":"2018-08-28T15:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/improved-medicare-for-all-becoming-unstoppable\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:53:16","slug":"improved-medicare-for-all-becoming-unstoppable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/improved-medicare-for-all-becoming-unstoppable\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Medicare For All Becoming Unstoppable"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/improved-medicare-for-all-becoming-unstoppable\/medicare-advocates-marching-by-molly-adams-from-flickr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83720\" src=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/medicare-advocates-marching.-by-molly-adams-from-flickr-e1535442571135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><em>Photo by M-molly Adams from Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Medicare for all has had majority support in the United States for more than a decade. As more people become aware of the details, support is growing. An August 23rd poll, conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-election-progressives\/\">by Reuters\/Ipsos,<\/a> found 70% of the public now supports Medicare for all. We see <a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/03\/24\/ten-million-americans-could-bring-h-r-676-into-reality-land-relief-for-anxiety-dread-and-fear\/\">the potential for winning<\/a> National Improved Medicare for All in the early 2020s if people continue to build the movement necessary to demand it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support Moves From Majority to Super-Majority, On the Way to National Consensus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This widespread support is occurring because health care is in a crisis in the United States that touches every family. A\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/08\/25\/why-doctors-are-warming-to-medicare-for-all\/\">growing majority of doctors<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/07\/24\/solidarity-with-medical-students-who-demand-single-payer-now-an-open-letter\/\">medical students<\/a> are urging Medicare for all because they are <a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/08\/19\/once-its-greatest-foes-some-doctors-are-now-embracing-single-payer\/\">experiencing the negative impacts of a health insurance<\/a>-dominated healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>There is a large enough percentage of the population who understands the issue sufficiently that they are educating others about it. People know that national improved Medicare for all is a publicly-financed, privately-delivered system in which all people are enrolled and all medically necessary services are covered.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this spreading understanding, despite the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/08\/21\/jake-tappers-faulty-medicare-for-all-fact-check\/\">media failing<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/08\/05\/reporting-on-medicare-for-all-makes-media-forget-how-math-works\/\">tell the truth<\/a> about Medicare for all,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/healthoverprofit.org\/2018\/08\/19\/the-medical-lobby-is-already-peddling-lies-about-medicare-for-all\/\">health profiteers lying<\/a> about it and big business interests doing their best to stop progress toward a national consensus, people are not falling for the misinformation campaign. Efforts to mislead the public, as coverage of a recent <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/08\/improved-medicare-for-all-becoming-unstoppable\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by M-molly Adams from Flickr Medicare for all has had majority support in the United States for more than a decade. As more people become aware of the details, support is growing. An August 23rd poll, conducted by Reuters\/Ipsos, found 70% of the public now supports Medicare for all. We see the potential for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}