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The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer

September 21, 2026 By Egberto Willies Leave a Comment

The UnitedHealth Story: Private Insurance, Public Money and Single Payer

Public research helps create medicines while private firms develop, market and price them. UnitedHealth’s growth adds urgency to the healthcare-financing debate.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Center for Health and Democracy, corporate healthcare, drug prices, healthcare consolidation, healthcare justice, healthcare reform, Insurance Denials, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, MedPAC, NIH research, Optum, OptumRx, Patient Rights, PBMs, Pharmaceutical Industry, pharmacy benefit managers, prior authorization, Private Health Insurance, public health insurance, single-payer healthcare, Sunlight Report, Traditional Medicare, UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare, Universal Healthcare, vertical integration

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

August 18, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

Elect Democrats to stop MAGA, but don’t surrender progressive accountability. Jeffries’ rejection of Medicare-for-All raises a serious question about who should lead the House.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 Midterm Elections, Corporate Democrats, corporate power, Data for Progress, Democratic Establishment, Democratic Leadership, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Economic Populism, Hakeem Jeffries, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Independents, MAGA, Medicare For All, Medicare for All 2026, political accountability, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Democrats, Progressive Politics, Reuters Ipsos, single-payer healthcare, Speaker of the House, Universal Healthcare, working class

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

July 20, 2026 By Egberto Willies

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

America pays more for worse healthcare because corporate middlemen extract wealth from illness. Medicare for All offers universal care at a lower total cost.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Administrative Waste, Copays, corporate greed, Deductibles, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Insurance Profits, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Insurance Denials, Medical Debt, Medicare, Medicare For All, Out-of-Network Care, Patient Rights, Politics Done Right, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Politics, single-payer healthcare, Universal Healthcare, working class

A lazy Bill Maher using capitalist talking points slamming Democratic Socialism was embarrassing.

November 16, 2025 By Egberto Willies

A lazy Bill Maher using capitalist talking points slamming Democratic Socialism was embarrassing.

Bill Maher is using his platform to promote billionaires’ Democratic Socialism fearing message because of Zohran Mamdani’s effective deconstruction of a failed economic system in digestible form.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Bill Maher, Billionaire Influence, Capitalism Critique, Democratic Party Future, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists of America, DSA, economic, Justice, Left Politics, Media Critique, Media Misinformation, Medicare For All, Political Commentary, Political Establishment, progressive movement, Progressive Politics, single-payer healthcare, Social Democracy, U.S. Economy, Vermont Healthcare, wealth inequality, Zohran Mamdani

A French native in America details why their healthcare system excels over our barbaric system.

April 10, 2024 By Egberto Willies

A French native in America details why their healthcare system excels over our barbaric system_

A French native, Cici, joined the discussion about the barbaric healthcare system in America and detailed the French system as a humane single-payer system that is stress-free and cost-effective for the country and individuals.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: france, French Healthcare, Single-Payer, single-payer healthcare

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