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Welcome to Prescription for Healthcare, a podcast collaboration between the WFHB Local News and Medicare for All Indiana, broadcasting the second Thursday of every month as part of the Local News at 5:15 PM.
This month we interview Dr Diljeet Singh, the President of Physicians for a National Health Program, to talk about the recent reintroduction in Congress of the Medicare for All Bill in the House and the Senate. There are reasons for hope! Dr Singh was our guest previously in January 2024.
Diljeet Singh MD
From the podcast:
Karen Green Stone: The Medicare for All bill was reintroduced this week in both houses of Congress, The House of Representatives, HR 3069 and the Senate S 1506. Why is Medicare for all a symbol of hope?
Dr. Singh: The American people clearly, clearly, clearly are not happy with healthcare in in this country. It is not often that we have a clean, clear bill that will address so many of the shortcomings of our healthcare system in one bill, and the idea is that we can have universal coverage: Everybody gets all the healthcare they need without copays, without deductibles, without wasting money on bureaucracy and profit and shareholder dividends, without worrying about conflicts of interest. This bill offers Americans all of those things. It does so without costing more than our current healthcare system. As a matter of fact, the plan is to add in dental, vision, hearing coverage because we can afford it if we’re not wasting money on bureaucracy and profit.
So to me, there’s nothing more hopeful than that.
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