Here’s a report from the respected Commonwealth Fund. The title sums up why we need single payer universal health care: “U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2022: Accelerating, Spending, Worsening Outcomes.” Click here for the stunning statistics and overwhelming rationale for change ASAP! Contact your state and national representatives to demand, respectively, movement on a CA state-based single payer system and national Medicare for All.

A doctor and nurses tend to a patient at University Hospital Leipzig on Nov. 18, 2021, in Leipzig, Germany. Germany spends less on health care per capita than the U.S., yet life expectancy at birth is nearly four years higher. Photo: Jens Schlueter/Getty Images