Among other videos, you'll find these at the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) website:



A. Medicare Advantage: What single-payer advocates need to know

B. Upcoding, Medicare Advantage, and DCEs (privatization of medical providers by private equity companies)



C. Direct Contracting Entities (DCEs)... Handing Traditional Medicare to Wall Street

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More from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) website:

One-pager: Medicare Advantage: Bad for Patients, Great for Profiteers

Policy primer: The Problems with Medicare Advantage

Comparison chart: Medicare Advantage vs. Medicare for All

PNHP comment: CMS Should Terminate the Medicare Advantage Program

PowerPoint slides: Don't Let Naked Profiteering Destroy Our Medicare

This is a 2-minute public service announcement by members of Congress about Medicare Advantage:

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In this November, 2023 presentation, Dr. Marvin Malek, internal medicine doctor in Berlin, VT, talks about the history of Medicare Advantage and how it differs from Medicare:

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National Single Payer Presents Marianne Pizzitola: Fighting for Our Lives -- The Battle Against Corporate Health Care

VIEW HERE

Article: Mayo Clinic in Arizona and Florida Warns It Won't take Most Medicare Advantage Plans

READ IT HERE

Public policy and health in the USA miniseries: Should investors own healthcare?

The Lancet Webinars, September 6, 2023

During this 1-hour Lancet Webinar, a panel of US-based experts examined the implications of growing investor ownership of physicians' practices, hospitals, and other health services in the USA, and their consolidation into giant corporate enterprises that dominate insurance and care delivery in many regions of the USA.

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Single Payer: The basic outline of "single payer" (financing, delivery, access, and services), with reference to Obama Care can be READ HERE on the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) website.

Additional resource: A brief delineation between socialized medicine and a single-payer system is outlined HERE on the website of healthinsurance.org.

McMedicare for All: What Privatization Means for the Single Payer Movement

January 10, 2024

In a health care "accommodation" (because it's too generous to call a system) that has become so corrupt and compromised, how can single payer activists call for Medicare for All, public funding and private delivery when health care providers are owned by Kroger and Best Buy and Amazon?

Hosted by National Single Payer

Presenter: Ana Malinow, MD

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Documentary film by Vincent Monillo and Richard Master.

2016, 58 minutes.

The documentary takes a hard look at how our dysfunctional healthcare system negatively impacts the nation's health, discourages physicians and hurts the bottom line of our businesses and national economy. Fix It proposes a common-sense solution to the out-of-control cost, while ensuring full access to quality healthcare for every American. DVD available locally.

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Producer and project creator Dr. Barbara Berney, a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system.

2018, 60 minutes.

Based on the book by David Barton Smith, the film tells the poignant chapter in the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to health care for all Americans. Central to the story is the tale of how a national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country in a matter of months. DVD available locally.

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Documentary film by T.R. Reid

2008, 60 minutes

The U.S. healthcare system needs reform. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a healthcare system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? This Frontline film examines first hand how other advanced democracies deliver health care and what we might learn. DVD available locally.

WATCH HERE

Explore resources in the toolkit created and maintained by the LWV's national networking group "Healthcare Reform for the U.S." (HCR4US)

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