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Reason #5: Congress Isn't Serving Our Citizens - And the Media Isn't Asking the Right Questions as to Why
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Episode #5, written and recorded by Rick Hubbard during his cross country Walking to Fix Our Democracy epic journey.
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Link: https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/us#:~:text=%22We%20the%20People%20of%20the,for%20the%20United%20States%20of
https://fortune.com/2022/06/16/41-percent-of-employees-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck/
Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper 2020-08, December 2020, How CBO Analyzes the Costs of Proposals for Single-Payer Health Care Systems That Are Based on Medicare’s Fee-for-Service Program Link: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf
Congressional Budget Office, Working Paper 2020-08, December 2020 Exhibit 11-1, p. 121, National Health Expenditures Under Current Law and CBO’s Illustrative Single-Payer Options, 2030. Link: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2020-12/56811-Single-Payer.pdf
Health Affairs Blog, 2021-2-16, Doctors Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending. Link: https://www.healtheaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210210.190243/full/
Health Affairs Blog, 2021-2-16, Doctors Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, Congressional Budget Office Scores Medicare-For-All: Universal Coverage For Less Spending. Effects of Design Features Underlying All of the Options, page 13. Link: https://www.healtheaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210210.190243/full/
US Census Bureau, Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2021
Written by: Katherine Keisler-Starkey and Lisa N. Bunch, Report Number P60-278, Dated: September 13, 2022 Link: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2022/demo/p60-278.html
2021-3-11 Health Affairs Blog - Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast, Exhibit 1: Medicare Advantage enrollment rates over time. Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210304.136304/full/
Dr. Ana Malinow, MD Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) video presentation explaining Dicrect Contract Entities.
Link: https://pnhp.org/direct-contracting-entities-handing-traditional-medicare-to-wall-street
2021-9-29 Health Affairs Blog, Gilfillan and Berwick - Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 1: The Risk-Score Game, How the “MA Money Machine Works.” Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210927.6239/full/
2021-9-30 Health Affairs Blog, Gilfillan and Berwick - Medicare Advantage, Direct Contracting, And The Medicare ‘Money Machine,’ Part 2:
2021-8-17 Kaiser Family Foundation - Higher and Faster Growing Spending Per Medicare Advantage Enrollee Adds to Medicare’s Solvency and Affordability Challenges. Findings-Spending per person. Link: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/
2021-3-11 Health Affairs Blog - Medicare Advantage For All? Not So Fast, Exhibit 4: Medicare per beneficiary growth rate. Link: https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210304.136304/full/
2021-8-17 Kaiser Family Foundation - Higher and Faster Growing Spending Per Medicare Advantage Enrollee Adds to Medicare’s Solvency and Affordability Challenges. - Conclusion. Link: https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/higher-and-faster-growing-spending-per-medicare-advantage-enrollee-adds-to-medicares-solvency-and-affordability-challenges/
Brennan Center For Justice, 2021-11-6 - Tim Las, The Filibuster Explained, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/filibuster-explained
Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America, by Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Takeaways About Money in the Midterms, The Brennan Center for Justice
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/4-takeaways-about-money-midterms
Majority of Americans say they won’t donate to 2020 presidential campaigns
CNBC and Acorns Invest in Your Spending Survey.
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