4 million working-age people lost health insurance since 2016
By Don McCanne, PNHP.org The Commonwealth Fund May 1, 2018 First Look at Health Insurance Coverage in 2018 Finds ACA Gains Beginning to Reverse By Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Michelle M. Doty and Herman K. Bhupal The marked gains in health insurance coverage made since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) […]
Health Care Timeline
Timeline of Healthcare for All and Single Payer (Caveat – There is a huge and rich history to the struggle for health justice and the underlying economic/technological changes that shape it. No way is this small snippet comprehensive, but maybe it’s a start – there are a few pieces of interest inserted but perhaps not directly […]
Getting From Profits for a Few to Health Care for All
By Scott Tucker for Truthdig Democracy is a more radical idea than socialism. That has been noted by a fair number of democratic socialists, including one of the steady campaigners on the left wing of the British Labor Party, Tony Benn, who died in 2014. By stressing democracy first and foremost, he plainly did not […]
Single-Payer Health Care: What Will It Take to Pass It?
By Lee Stanfield. Originally published in Against the Current. SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH Care bill HR-676 covers 100% of everything with the least taxpayer money! So what will it take to pass it? And why is neither S-1804 (see below) nor a “state-by-state” approach, the answer to the health care crisis? President Truman proposed universal health care […]
The Democratic Establishment is Moving Closer and Closer to Single Payer, but Activists Want the Real Thing
Note: “I do not view the Center for American Progress’ plan as moving to single payer. Instead, it would actually cement the private Medicare Advantage Plans into our healthcare system. Although it is referred to as a public option in the article below, it differs in that it would allow people to purchase Medicare plans, […]
‘Medicare For All’ Event Is Well-Attended
By Gillian Pomplun for SWNews VIROQUA – A ‘Medicare for All’ event held on Saturday, Jan. 27, at the American Legion in Viroqua drew over 80 participants. Speakers at the event included Megan Grinde of La Crosse; Darrin Von Ruden, president of the Wisconsin Farmers Union; Dr. Taryn Lawler, family physician at the La Farge […]
Flyers and Graphics
2-sided basic flyer: UfSP 2-side flyer 4.17 Graphic on HR 676: Graphic that compares National Improved Medicare for All and the Affordable Care Act: Graphic that compares NIMA, ACA and AHCA: Download a pdf of the above chart here: ComparisonChart Graphic that compares Medicare for All and the Public Option:
National Improved Medicare for All Bills
Health Over Profit for Everyone supports HR 1384: The Medicare for All Act of 2019 introduced by Rep. Pramila Jayapal as the strongest bill currently in Congress. Our gold standard is the Physician’s Working Group Proposal drafted by Physicians for a National Health Program and embodied in the former bill, HR 676. Links to Legislation: 2019-20 […]
Convince Me: Tools for Various Constituencies
General Public Basic Presentation: This is a basic presentation with extra slides at the end that you can use to mix and match. Contact us at info@healthoverprofit.org if you want us to send you the power point. View it here as a pdf: Healthcare-For-All-Yall-Roadshow-October-2018 (1) Basic flyers: Our Healthcare System is Broken Flyer: Cracked egg flyer Two-page […]
Reducing healthcare costs doesn’t require Bezos/Buffett/Dimon magic: Every other country already knows how
By Michael Hiltzik for the LA Times. Above photo: Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, who along with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon on Tuesday announced a venture to bring down U.S. healthcare costs. (Charlie Riedel / Associated Press) NOTE: I agree with Hiltzik that we don’t need billionaires to solve our healthcare crisis, unless […]