https://jacobinmag.com/2018/12/medicare-for-all-study-peri-sanders/

Medicare for All advocates just received an early holiday present: a new study from the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst finds that single-payer health care will save the US $5.1 trillion over a decade while drastically cutting working-class Americans’ health spending. It’s the most robust, comprehensive study yet produced on Medicare for All, which has long been in need of easily citable research.

The study analyzes Sen. Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All Act from top to bottom, elaborating on several key aspects of the bill, including what the transition to a fully public, comprehensive, free-at-the-point-of-use health care system might look like and what impact the program will have on US residents. Most significantly, it answers the most common question single-payer advocates face: “How will we pay for it?”

The findings are impressively thorough. Reaching nearly two hundred pages in length, the report has been praised by health policy experts for its sound methods and clarity. Alison Galvani of the Yale School of Public Health predicts it will become recognized as the “seminal analysis” of Medicare for All.

Long plagued by accusations of ambiguity and impracticality, Medicare for All now has credible economic research its advocates can cite to supplement their core arguments: that single-payer health care will be a major working-class victory, that it will save lives, and that it will represent a seismic shift toward a more just, solidaristic society.

I think that this is true.

I wrote about Bernie Sanders, who I think is being underrated as a 2020 contender https://t.co/F4QxAndoRM

— Harry Cheadle (@HCheadle) December 3, 2018

From the article:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqzy7/bernie-sanders-is-almost-definitely-running-for-president

He hasn’t announced his candidacy yet, but the writing’s on the wall.

The 2020 elections are a mere 23 months away, so it’s time for speculation about who will run for president to ramp up to the point of absurdity. Talk of potential candidates was once a whisper, now it’s a steady hum, and soon it will become a shrill, skull-piercing whine that somehow continues to get louder until the actual 2020 primaries.

The US senator from Vermont attended a conference held by the Sanders Institute (co-founded by his wife) over the weekend, and unsurprisingly it was chock full of Sanders backers and advisers drumming up enthusiasm for a run. Meanwhile, a recent New York magazine feature about his possible campaign saw Sanders stop just short of declaring his candidacy: “If there’s somebody else who appears who can, for whatever reason, do a better job than me, I’ll work my ass off to elect him or her,” he told writer Gabriel Debenedetti. “[But] if it turns out that I am the best candidate to beat Donald Trump, then I will probably run.”

https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1069750712135872512

There has a good cross section of speakers covering the topics. Even a Republican.?

It it going overboard!

First it was the stock market. Now it is the Post Office.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/419563-postal-service-to-suspend-most-deliveries-for-george-hw-bushs

The U.S. Postal Service announced on Monday that it will suspend most of its services on Wednesday to honor the national day of mourning for the late former President, George H.W. Bush.

“Out of respect for the 41st President of the United States and to honor his vast contributions to our country during his lifetime, and consistent with the Presidential Proclamation, the United States Postal Service will suspend regular mail deliveries, retail services and administrative office activity on Dec. 5,” USPS said in a statement on its website.

Lets hope that you weren’t expecting something important in the mail.