Nevada Debuts Public Option Amid Tumultuous Federal Changes to Health Care
(By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF Health News published February 19, 2026) More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s
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M4A and Public Option Plans
How to lower healthcare costs
The cost of the U.S. healthcare system has ballooned to $4 trillion a year. Although the number of heart-related deaths
Read MoreMassachusetts lawmakers reintroduce single payer proposal
(Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A bill to establish a single payer healthcare system in Massachusetts has been refiled
Read More‘Single payer’ bill advances in Colorado
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) For the third year in a row, Colorado lawmakers have advanced a bill
Read MoreCalifornia lawmakers trying again for single-payer
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) California lawmakers have introduced legislation again that would provide “comprehensive universal single-payer” health
Read MoreSingle payer still a tough sell in California
(By Rylee Wilson for Becker’s Hospital Review) California legislators are putting a single-payer system back on the table, but it
Read MoreU.S. government spent more on health care in 2022 than six countries with universal health care combined
(By Annalisa Merelli for STAT) American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health
Read MoreFixing America’s health insurance woes is ‘actually very simple,’ says leading economist
(By Annalisa Merelli for STAT) Fixing the U.S. health care system can seem like a herculean task. But the solution
Read MoreMedicare for all … of East Palestine?
(By Sarah Owermohle for STAT) WASHINGTON — Nearly three weeks after a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, spewing toxic
Read More‘Nationalized healthcare’ on the ballot in rural Wisconsin county
(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) A rural county in Wisconsin is placing a voter referendum on its November
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