Campaign Updates ← Health Over Profit

Health Over Profit National Calls

Feb

6

2017

Health Over Profit for Everyone is a national campaign to win a National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) healthcare system (also called a single payer health system). It is a project initiated by advocates for NIMA acting as individuals and is coordinated by Popular Resistance. We will hold regular national conference calls starting Monday, February ...

What Trump gets wrong about Medicare-for-All

Oct

16

2018

Posted by CNN Wire President Trump’s critique of “Medicare-for-all” reform assaults the truth. Contrary to his claims, the single-payer bills in the House and Senate would upgrade coverage and broaden choice for seniors, along with the rest of Americans. And Medicare-for-all would slow the growth of medical costs, assuring Medicare’s long-term financial health. Medicare currently ...

Practicing Medicine While Black

Oct

16

2018

By Kip Sullivan, JD for The Health Care Blog The managed care movement thrives on misleading words and phrases. Perhaps the worst example is the incessant use of the word “quality” to characterize a problem that has multiple causes, only one of which might be inferior physician or hospital quality. [1] To illustrate with a ...

Mr. Trump, If You Love Medicare, Improve It and Expand It to All

Oct

12

2018

By Dr. Carol Paris, Health Over Profit for Everyone. Above photo: Dr. Carol Paris being escorted out of a Trump Rally in Tennessee. Well, now I’ve heard everything: Donald Trump wants to keep “the government” away from Medicare and protect seniors from attempts to improve it. Huh? Mr. President, take it from me—a newly-minted senior ...

Medicare-for-All Foes Pack Serious Lobbying Power; Congress Must Choose Between People and Industry

Oct

12

2018

By Craig Sandler, Public Citizen. Three-Fourths of Health Care Lobbyists in 2017 Worked on Behalf of Big Pharma, Insurance and Hospital Industries, a New Study Finds WASHINGTON, D.C. – While a majority of the public, and an increasing number of politicians, support a Medicare-for-All health care system, any serious proposal will face major hurdles due ...

Dr. Margaret Flowers in Kentucky: Educating on health policy, inspiring activism to win single payer

Oct

12

2018

By Kay Tillow for KY Healthcare On October 4 and 5, 2018, nationally-known single payer activist, Margaret Flowers, MD, spoke at a whirlwind of events in Kentucky, educating physicians and medical students and inspiring activists. Dr. Flowers, a Baltimore pediatrician, now works full time advocating for a National Improved Medicare for All system as set ...

A US-inspired reorganisation is about to hit England’s NHS – ‘help us stop it’

Oct

12

2018

NHS plans due to take effect next spring could make general healthcare as difficult to access as mental healthcare already is – and lock future governments into long contracts with private firms, warn campaigners. By Jenny Shepherd for Open Democracy Members of the public, NHS campaign groups and trade unions are acting to stop NHS ...

As lawyers argue Medicaid expansion case, uninsured Mainers forgo health care

Oct

8

2018

Thousands of low-income residents who don’t have health insurance are skimping on medications or passing up on treatment as they wait for access to Medicaid coverage that voters approved 11 months ago. By Joe Lawlor for Press Herald Eric Spahn knows he should be taking better care of his deteriorating health, but without insurance and ...

Doctor: National health care is a ‘moral imperative’

Oct

8

2018

By Jenny Gray for Fulton Sun This week, Dr. Robert Blake, emeritus professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri, remembered a patient who died, but possibly could have lived a longer life. “He was a farmer and had high blood pressure,” Blake said. The farmer had an insurance policy with a ...

Guest commentary: Single-payer health care likely less disruptive, better for economy

Oct

8

2018

By Dr. George Bohmfalk for The Aspen Times Many people fear that moving abruptly to a single-payer system, as in expanding and improving Medicare to cover everyone, would be disruptive and might wreck the economy. I believe that the only areas that may face any disruption would be the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. There is ...

Medicare for All should be free of profit takers

Oct

4

2018

By Kay Tillow. It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the advocates of national single payer health care in the United States. So good because the vast majority in the US have embraced the concept of improving Medicare and expanding it to the entire population. So bad because corrupting influences threaten ...