The GOP is well on its way to enacting major cuts to Medicaid. These have multiple components, with serious damage to care access, and thousands of added deaths. Surprisingly, the GOP has a strategy to minimize political blowback. ( Posted here in its entirety, from Health Justice Monitor, an affiliate of our parent organization, PhysiciansContinue reading “GOP Medicaid Cuts: Multifaceted, Severe, Deadly, Machiavellian”
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The Attacks on U.S. Health Care
This post is a sharing of part of the newsletter of the Committee to Protect Health Care Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Edited by Chris Savage View the full newsletter on the web here: ProtectMed.org/MidweekPage56. Welcome to this week’s edition of The Midweek Page, a weekly newsletter from the Committee to Protect Health Care designed to keep members, advocates, andContinue reading “The Attacks on U.S. Health Care”
Wrong target, wrong weapon
Use non-violent means to address our health care woes A simple statement from Hank Abrons, published in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 9: “The assassin who shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson to death on December 4 aimed at the wrong target, used the wrong weapon, and wasn’t the right person to do the job. The target should be United Healthcare’s profit-seeking business model. The weapon must be legislation to replace private health insurance with universal health insurance through aContinue reading “Wrong target, wrong weapon”
I know a farmer who…
“Though Americans’ per person spending on healthcare totals more than $13,000, and polls as a top issue, the system is unmoved. With the Trump/Harris horserace in its final furlong nothing of substance is on-offer from either of the presidential wannabes. Neither party will acknowledge the institutional running sore that is the US healthcare regime.” Read RichardContinue reading “I know a farmer who…”
Growing Discontents
In Counterpunch, Richard Rhames offers his perspectives on the history of failed attempts to achieve universal healthcare in the United States: “…A lifetime of living without health insurance in a country where health care is just another profit extracting commodity has some downsides one discovers as one senesces. Blood clots in the wrong place canContinue reading “Growing Discontents”
Rural Communities Face Primary Care Physician Shortage
by Liz Carey, The Daily YonderApril 22, 2024 A new study from the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center (AAFP), co-funded by the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Physicians Foundation, has found that communities across the country are struggling to meet the demand for primary care physicians, as well as to retain thoseContinue reading “Rural Communities Face Primary Care Physician Shortage”
The Case for State-Based Single-Payer Healthcare
“Throughout U.S. history, states have been the much needed small laboratories that have succeeded in developing social innovations that eventually went national.” In the following article in Common Dreams, healthcare advocates from One Payer States make their case for state-based universal healthcare programs, to pave the way to a national Improved and Expanded Medicare forContinue reading “The Case for State-Based Single-Payer Healthcare”
Here’s to health care for all!
Take a look back at what we’ve accomplished in the movement in 2023, along with our parent organization Maine AllCare.
Rep. Ro Khanna Introduces Federal Legislation to Support State-Based Universal Health Care
Washington, DC – Today, Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17), member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, reintroduced the State-Based Universal Health Care Act. Recognizing the unique position of American states to lead the push for universal health care, Rep. Khanna’s bill provides states with federal funding streams and regulatory flexibility to support affordable, universalContinue reading “Rep. Ro Khanna Introduces Federal Legislation to Support State-Based Universal Health Care”
Beware: Medicare Advantage plans may work well for you…until you get sick
“Last year, the federal Office of the Inspector General found that at least 13% of prior authorization denials were inappropriate and 18% of payment denials were unjustifiable.” The Medicare program’s annual open enrollment period extends from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. During this period, beneficiaries can buy supplemental private insurance (Medigap plans) to cover Medicare’sContinue reading “Beware: Medicare Advantage plans may work well for you…until you get sick”
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