Medicare for All

Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist. He rebuilt Detroit's Health Department after the City's bankruptcy as the youngest big-city health commissioner in a major US city. He ran for Governor of Michigan in 2018 on a state-level single-payer platform in a bid endorsed by Senator Bernie Sanders, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, The Nation, and Current Affairs. He holds a doctorate in Public Health from University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a medical degree from Columbia University. Micah Johnson, MD, is a physician and a health care researcher, writer, and policy advisor. He served as a health policy fellow in the U.S. House of Representatives and has advised presidential campaigns on health care reform. He holds a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he received his MD from Harvard Medical School. He is currently a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Forewords by Bernie Sanders and Pramila Jayapal

Part I: Healthcare in America
1. Diagnosis
2. How We Got Here: A History of Health Reform in America

Part II: Policy
3. Medicare for All: The Fundamentals
4. Designing a Medicare for All Program
5. How to Pay for It
6. Medicare for All vs. Alternatives

PART III: Politics
7. We the People
8. For and Against
9. Stakeholders in Flux
10. Organizing vs. Advertising
11. Parting Thoughts