One doctor's opinion: health care Is a right not a privilege : thehill

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One doctor's opinion: health care Is a right not a privilege

One doctor's opinion: health care Is a right not a privilege

Three years after its implementation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; Obamacare) continues to provoke intense debate over its benefits and problems, and whether it should be improved, repealed, or even replaced by a single public health-care option.At the heart of the matter is one fundamental question: Is healthcare a human right, or is it a privilege?European nations have had different models of health-care coverage for more than a century, driven by the need for protection of wage loss due to sickness, rather than payment of medical expenses.


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Dem governor makes damning Obamacare admission amid health care 'emergency' in his state

Dem governor makes damning Obamacare admission amid health care 'emergency' in his state

Minnesota Gov.Mark Dayton says the Affordable Care Act is "no longer affordable."Dayton, a Democrat who signed the state law allowing Obamacare to go forward in his state, reversed course Wednesday, telling the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, "Ultimately … the reality is the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable for an increasing number of people."The damning admission comes just one month after the Pioneer Press reported that the state's individual insurance market was "in danger of collapse," as insurance companies on the individual market announced they would hike premiums anywhere from 50 to 67 percent."These rising insurance rates are unsustainable and unfair.


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Wikileaks emails: Clinton camp wanted to avoid discussing health care in Colorado during primaries

Wikileaks emails: Clinton camp wanted to avoid discussing health care in Colorado during primaries

DENVER – Hillary Clinton's campaign wanted to avoid talking about health care and what at the time was a proposal for a single-payer system in Colorado supported by her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders, when she spoke to crowds in Denver and Boulder last November.The revelation was made in emails purportedly from high-level Clinton staffers released by Wikileaks over the past week.CLINTON STAFFERS SAY AVOID HEALTH CARE TALK AMID SANDERS' SINGLE-PAYER TALKClinton was headed to Denver and Boulder Nov. 24, 2015 to meet with state caucus organizers when her speech writer, Megan Rooney, sent an email to other staffers saying the talking points for the appearances were ready, but noted that, "CO has asked that we not deliver a strong health care message here."The campaign's vice chairwoman, Huma Abedin, wrote back: "[S]orry for the ignorance but why not a strong healthcare message tomorrow?"Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said the campaign was "avoiding that issue because of the single payer referendum," to which deputy communications director Kristina Schake responded, "[Clinton Colorado campaign manager] Brad [Komar] asked us not to do health care tomorrow in Colorado because of the ballot initiative.