Health justice now: single payer and what comes next

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Section 1: What we got -- Insurance -- Uninsurance -- Public insurance -- Private insurance -- The perverse relationship between you and your insurer -- Cost -- Some wonderful examples of bloated costs -- "Skin in the Game": Punishing people for getting sick -- The Affordable Care Act -- The most dangerous place -- Section 2: What we want -- What is single-prayer? -- How can we afford it? -- What might it look like? -- What isn't single-prayer -- State-based single-payer, a la "Healthy California" -- Medicare advantage -- "Medicare extra for all" / public option -- The "Buy-Ins" -- Arbitrary European countries -- Monsters big and small -- Section 3: What lies beyond -- The social determinants of health -- Housing -- food -- More social determinants of health -- Houston jails as warehouses for the sick -- Health justice -- The structural determinants of health -- Racism -- Sexism -- Poverty -- Babyland -- Caught in the web: Our experiences with American healthcare -- Chronic illness -- Survivors of violence -- Disability -- Race and health -- Opioids -- Trans health -- Maternal health -- Medical costs -- Abortion -- Immigrants -- Poverty -- Mental health -- Providers -- Work -- Section 4: What we do -- What hasn't worked -- What will work;Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better? Section 1: What we got -- Insurance -- Uninsurance -- Public insurance -- Private insurance -- The perverse relationship between you and your insurer -- Cost -- Some wonderful examples of bloated costs -- "Skin in the Game": Punishing people for getting sick -- The Affordable Care Act -- The most dangerous place -- Section 2: What we want -- What is single-prayer? -- How can we afford it? -- What might it look like? -- What isn't single-prayer -- State-based single-payer, a la "Healthy California" -- Medicare advantage -- "Medicare extra for all" / public option -- The "Buy-Ins" -- Arbitrary European countries -- Monsters big and small -- Section 3: What lies beyond -- The social determinants of health -- Housing -- food -- More social determinants of health -- Houston jails as warehouses for the sick -- Health justice -- The structural determinants of health -- Racism -- Sexism -- Poverty -- Babyland -- Caught in the web: Our experiences with American healthcare -- Chronic illness -- Survivors of violence -- Disability -- Race and health -- Opioids -- Trans health -- Maternal health -- Medical costs -- Abortion -- Immigrants -- Poverty -- Mental health -- Providers -- Work -- Section 4: What we do -- What hasn't worked -- What will work