Common Dreams:
"The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday released a report examining the costs associated with universal healthcare proposals that are based on Medicare's fee-for-service program and found that implementing a single-payer health insurance program in the United States would not only guarantee coverage for every person in the country but would also reduce overall healthcare spending nationwide.
In the words of researcher Matt Bruenig—founder and president of the progressive think tank People's Policy Project who called the CBO's working paper (pdf) on the topic 'more exhaustive than any other recent study on the subject'—the new analysis shows that administrative costs under a single-payer healthcare system 'will be lower than what even the most rabid Medicare for All supporters have traditionally claimed.' ...
Bruenig explained that the CBO option that most closely resembles current Medicare for All proposals is the one based on low payment rates and low cost sharing, which would generate $650 billion in savings in 2030."
-->What a stunning waste of money the current for profit healthcare system really is. And how cruel and unnecessary our current denial of medical care for millions of poor people in our country. The NYT avoids studies like this that question corporate profits. It didn't print this story that directly challenges the NYT's damaging criticisms of Elizabeth Warren.
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Common Dreams:
"The WikiLeaks founder's 'prolonged solitary confinement in a high security prison is neither necessary nor proportionate,' said United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer.
The United Nations' top official on torture Tuesday called for British authorities to release or place under house arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, citing the risk of Covid-19 infection in London's notorious Belmarsh Prison and condemning a decade of 'arbitrary deprivation of liberty' that has 'severely violated' the jailed journalist's human rights. ...
Assange's legal team has repeatedly called for his release, citing pre-existing health conditions—including heart problems and respiratory infections—that place the 49-year-old journalist and publisher at elevated risk for potentially deadly Covid-19 complications."
-->What did the NYT say about the violation of Assange's human rights? Nothing at all. Our "newspaper of record" prefers running stories about Assange's supposedly disagreeable personal traits.
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FAIR:
"Joe Biden doesn’t become president for a month and a half, but already sections of the corporate media are calling on him to use US power to dominate the world.
Typically these calls are couched in benign-sounding euphemisms. For instance, CNBC (11/21/20) ran an article headlined, 'How Biden Can Restore US Global Leadership After Trump’s Retreat From International Institutions,' which of course presumes that America ought to be planetary chief, despite the vast majority of those who live on Earth not being consulted.
Fred Kaplan of Slate (11/12/20) asserted that Biden’s 'main goal is to restore American leadership in a world that’s keen to follow it.' The evidence suggests the opposite, as polling in countries closely allied with the United States like the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia finds majorities—strong ones, in many cases—have a negative view of America. That doesn’t matter, though, because the point of Kaplan’s assertion is to provide an ideological smokescreen: The world wants 'American leadership,' goes the lie, so the American population should support their government’s overseas adventures."
https://fair.org/home/us-leadership-and-other-euphemisms-for-war/
-->How transparent the empire's propaganda is, once you know what to look for. Read the article to understand the different ways that American exceptionalism is sold to the US public. All this to ensure that the Military Industrial Complex will thrive under Biden's administration. War is all about money, lies and compliant journalists.
