Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Support for Medicare for All is a “National Consensus”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
10 Dec 2019
🖨️ Print Article

“When an issue gets to the point where it has a national consensus behind it,” as does Medicare for All, “the people who profit from the system will do all they can to stop it,” said Kevin Zeese, of Popular Resistance. Democratic presidential candidate “Elizabeth Warren’s popularity dropped like a rock,” said Zeese, when she watered down her support for Medicare for All.

Medicare For All

Related Podcasts

Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Biden and Trump Not That Different on the Issues
15 December 2020
President-elect Joe Biden “is not even giving a nod and a wink” to Medicare for All, despite its huge popularity among both Democrats and Republica
Dr. Margaret Flowers
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Grassroots Pressure” Propels Single Payer
19 September 2017
The endorsement of Bernie Sanders Medicare For All bill by 15 Democratic senators is “the result of direct, grassroots pressures,” said Dr.
Black Agenda Radio
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 22, 2017
23 August 2017
Doctors Back Single Payer

More Stories


  • Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
    Million Worker March 20th Anniversary: Project 2025— Keep Death ‘Alive?’
    10 Jul 2024
    Million Worker March 20th Anniversary: Project 2025— Keep Death ‘Alive?’ is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
  • ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
    For African/Black Working Class and Colonized Peoples, Midterm Elections in the U.S. Offer No Relief from War, Repression and Capitalist Misery
    10 Jul 2024
    The 50-year-old neo-liberal agenda explains why political choices in this country provide little change that benefits the masses of people. The recent midterm election results will not bring about an…
  • John Parker
    Demanding Violent Obedience, Illegal Sale of Palestinian Land Embraced by Biden, Governors, Mayors and City Councilmembers
    10 Jul 2024
    As Israel's genocidal campaign against Palestinians continues, so does the theft of Palestinian land. Real estate events that sell off illegal settlements acquired through settler violence in…
  • Rasha Khatib , Martin McKee , Salim Yusuf
    Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
    10 Jul 2024
    The data for the death count in Gaza collected by the Gaza Health Ministry has been extremely difficult to gather due to the onslaught by Israel. It is also difficult to calculate the scale of…
  • Isabelle Papillon
    Haiti PM Garry Conille is Reporting to the Metropolis
    10 Jul 2024
    The unelected Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille recently traveled to the U.S. to make his rounds, giving reports to various political leaders and members of the Biden administration.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us