Moment. Lets start by bringing you these latest pictures weve just had in from the reuters news agency. These strikes were last night. These are the scenes immediately after those moments. So many times actually we see pictures of skylines. This on the ground giving you an idea of what they are actually dealing with. You can see Palestinian Health and rescue teams operating here. In the next piece second, you will see another strike back hunting. Few seconds. That was the moment of the second strike. They are still trying to ascertain in terms of numbers of casualties. This is one of a number of strikes overnight by the israelis. We know those have continued in terms of gaza health officials. They say overnight 324 people have died in the last 24 hours, another 1000 wounded. According to other reports, those amongst the fatalities include 126 children and 88 women. Some of the latest pictures coming into us from the reuters news agency. In terms of the major developments, lets spend th
Medicare for all. National, every person living in the country, and of the Health Professional in the country, is in the system. It is more comprehensive and there are no upfront outofpocket costs like copays or deductibles. Then medicare for all, everybody pays into it through a preventive tax, and everybody is covered for the care they need. That is certainly an expansive definition, and it gives us some to work with, but it is much more expansive than National Health Insurance Programs in other countries, which do include outofpocket expenses which often have secondary payers working alongside the governmentrun market. This would be much more expansive than perhaps anywhere in the world. Host lets look at the idea of pros and cons for such a system. Michael tanner, the idea of singlepayer what are the pros and cons as far as that program is concerned . Guest it would certainly give everybody a piece of paper saying they have Health Insurance, more than what some people have today. B
Of a singlepayer Health Care System in the u. S. This is just under one hour. [no audio] definitions. Doctor, how would you define washington journal continues. Host were going to engage in a discussion look at the topic of singlepayer health care. Two guest joining us, Michael Tanner with the cato institute. He serves as a senior fellow. And dr. Margaret flowers is a National Board advisor for the physicians for a National Health program. Of you, good morning. Lets start with definitions. Doctor, how would you define singlepayer as a working definition as far as health care is concerned . The easiest way is to call it National Improved Medicare for all. National, every person living in the country, and of the Health Professional in the country, is in the system. It is more comprehensive and there are no upfront outofpocket costs like copays or deductibles. Then medicare for all, everybody pays into it through a preventive tax, and everybody is covered for the care they need. That is c
Of a singlepayer Health Care System in the u. S. This is just under one hour. [no audio] definitions. Doctor, how would you define washington journal continues. Host were going to engage in a discussion look at the topic of singlepayer health care. Two guest joining us, Michael Tanner with the cato institute. He serves as a senior fellow. And dr. Margaret flowers is a National Board advisor for the physicians for a National Health program. Of you, good morning. Lets start with definitions. Doctor, how would you define singlepayer as a working definition as far as health care is concerned . The easiest way is to call it National Improved Medicare for all. National, every person living in the country, and of the Health Professional in the country, is in the system. It is more comprehensive and there are no upfront outofpocket costs like copays or deductibles. Then medicare for all, everybody pays into it through a preventive tax, and everybody is covered for the care they need. That is c
Your conferences which is coming up again, 8001000 people in the middle of a rainy saturday afternoon were talking in practical terms about what they were doing. It was not a political movement. It was activity interaction and discussion. Please help it welcomed the executive rector of just food. Welcome the executive director of just. Read with a sense of social justice. Food was started 20 years ago by a group of people that were looking at the Movement Towards Sustainable Agriculture and the antihunger Movement Thinking that there should not be parallel lines. We had farms disappearing and we have people in the city were hungry. Convened the first conference the first year and what they eventually hit on was the first thing they did which was csa. At the point that just food was founded, there was one csa in new york city. There are now 130 in our network. From the beginning, there was a on making sure that was accessible to everyone. Csa often of income involves payment upfront and