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The Hidden History of American Healthcare
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Dedication
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Introduction: How a Single-Payer Healthcare System Helped Stop COVID-19
Medicare for All—Why?
Medicare for All—How?
Part One: How Bad Things Are in America
How the Insurance Industry Bought Joe Lieberman and Killed the Public Option
Obamacare: Rube Goldberg Meets Health Insurance
Wendell Potter: A Good Man in a Bad Job
“Dollar Bill” McGuire and the Privatization of Medicare
The “Advantage” War against Medicare
You Are Locked-in to Medicare Advantage
Rick Scott Killed Charlene Dill
Work to Live, or Live to Work?
Part Two: The Origins of America’s Sickness-for-Profit System
Germany Gets the World’s First Single-Payer System in 1884
America, the Land of the Sick
Frederick Ludwig Hoffman Makes a Discovery
Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro
From Scientific Racism to Libertarianism
New York Shakes Up the Insurance Industry
From Scientific Racism to “No Compulsory Healthcare!”
Prudential Helps Kill America’s First Healthcare-for-All Campaign
Part Three: The Modern Fight for a Human Right to Healthcare
Is Healthcare a Right or a Privilege?
Why Social Security Doesn’t Already Include a Right to Healthcare
Healthcare to Defeat Fascism
The Beveridge Report: The British Plan for Defense and Welfare
How Canada Won a Right to Healthcare
LBJ Takes It to Reagan and the Doctors
Medicare: America’s Most Successful Racial Integration Program
Medicare “Inspectors” Defeat Goldwater’s Racists
Medicare Ends Segregation in America’s Hospitals
Ted Kennedy’s Fight for Expansion
Part Four: Saving Lives with a Real Healthcare System
Undoing Reaganomics and Reducing Inequality Would Save Lives
Buy the Insurance Companies!
Medicare for All: The Losers
The Impact of Medicare for All on Business
Want a Green New Deal? Get Medicare for All First
“It Takes a Crisis”
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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