Health Justice Now Quotes

“The insistence that healthcare finance must be obtuse, that we must be condemned to illness because of an untranslatable series of runes and glyphs accessible only to a specialized wonk class—that it just has to be hard and thus anything that isn’t hard isn’t a solution—is a kind of epistemic violence against us non-wonk humans.*4 It is a lack of ambition, disguised as pragmatism. So let’s start simple. Here’s single-payer in one sentence: we pool the money we already pay to insurance companies and use it to insure everyone, in full, with no cost-sharing.”
― Timothy Faust, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

“The overarching structure and vision of these buy-in plans reflect a near obsession with the status quo, an insistence on the hegemonic domination of employers and insurance companies on the health and well-being of people. These technocratic nerds have adopted a shared narrow-sightedness, unable to think beyond “what is”: they never consider, for example, that this employer dominance was a historical accident, and that the suffering it inflicts is, in a sense, a slow-burning casualty of the second World War, not a divine mandate.”
― Timothy Faust, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

“Certainly providers do overcharge; hospitals do seek to squeeze as much as they can out of the insurance company. Thus the insurers, who need profit like patients need air and water, have a legitimate and reasonable point. But that their point can only be expressed at the expense of the patient is proof of the moral illegitimacy of the whole industry.”
― Timothy Faust, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

“One step below the level of research, we find that 30 percent of doctors see 100 percent of patients of color. That is—70 percent of doctors treat only white patients.”
― Timothy Faust, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next

“If this doesn’t make sense, once again, don’t worry. It doesn’t. It’s a plan designed by nerds who like looking at spreadsheets so much that they figured everyone else would enjoy it as well,*81 and that it might be a good way to determine who is permitted to live and die in America. It isn’t a plan designed by anyone who has ever gone hungry to feed their kids or anyone who lives in Section 8 housing or anyone who has ever been to prison.”
― Timothy Faust, Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next