Articles by Matt Bruenig

The single payer plan in the Urban Institute study is different from M4A.

Fine as far as things go but not likely to reduce poverty by much.

Poverty is easy to fix. Just keep building the welfare state.

The claim is both true literally and even non-literally in the spirit of things.

Poor families spend 22 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses.

These are mostly unemployment benefit schemes, but not very good ones.