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Divestment: A New Strategy for Single Payer Healthcare

Explore the push for divestment from the medical-industrial complex towards a single-payer system. Learn about the impact of health care costs and the necessity for change in the current system.

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Divestment: A New Strategy for Single Payer Healthcare

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  1. Divestment A New Strategy for Single Payer Rob Stone Katie Robbins Kay Tillow

  2. The Medical-Industrial Complex “Remember that what the rest of us call health care costs, they call income.”- Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate New York Times 5/10/09

  3. The Big 7 Health Insurers 2011 “Our systems are perfectly designed to attain the results we are currently achieving.” – W. Edwards Demming

  4. Karen Green Stone at Wellpoint Annual Shareholder’s Meeting “Angela, it takes 285 public school teachers in Indiana who earn an average of $47,000 a year to equal your 2010 compensation package of $13.4 million. Would you kindly tell us why you are entitled to so much more than them?” Indianapolis, May 17, 2011 http://pnhp.org/blog/2011/05/19/

  5. The Health Insurance Industry A Dinosaur Stumbling Toward a Tar Pit

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