Poll Measures 75% Support For Single-Payer In Oregon
By THE JEFFERSON EXCHANGE TEAM • Nov 19, 2019 Listen 22 minutes Joe Graf and Bill Walsh with Geoffrey Riley. The talk of health insurance continues to heat up along with the presidential campaign. And a poll taken earlier this year...
Don’t Touch My Medicare!! “Is Program on its last legs?”
“Don’t Touch My Medicare!” Wendell Potter, Tarbell’s founder: If we learned one thing from the presidential debates last week, it is that health care—and, in particular, the Medicare program, which turned 54 years old Tuesday, July 31—are going to be...
I’ve lived the difference between US and UK health care. Here’s what I learned
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/07/opinions/single-payer-healthcare-beers/index.html (CNN) Earlier this year, I shattered my elbow in a freak fall, requiring surgery, plates and screws. While I am a US citizen, several years ago I married an Englishman and became a UK resident, entitled to coverage on...
British National Health Service Summarized
Friday’s Labor Folklore Con Carbon, Minstrel of the Mine Patch The British National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the comprehensive public-health service established in England in 1946 under the guiding principle that good healthcare should...
Register for Portland Health Care Now Conference October 18-20
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Top lobbying groups dive into ‘Medicare for All’ debate
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/ BY ALEX GANGITANO – 06/28/19 Top lobbying groups dive into Medicare for All debate Legislation for the single-payer system, introduced in the House in February, has 33 companies registered to lobby on it so far in 2019, including the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of...
Mid-Valley HCAO Article on Background TO SB770-B Success by Mike Huntington
Senate Bill 770-B passed both Houses Sunday! Governor Brown has said she would sign such a bill. This is a remarkable turn of events. In January, Healthcare ForAll Oregon and MVHCA were on...
Wahoo !! SB 770 B Establishing Universal Health Care Commission made it to legislative finish line !!!
From: Bill Walsh/Shirley Weathers Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2019 7:53 PM Subject: Wahoo! SB 770 B Universal Health Care Taskforce/Commission at the finish line! Greetings to All, SB 770 was in the logjam of bills while the Senate Rs...
Time to Pass SB 770-A9 – Submit Testimony Now !!
Lets Pass SB 770-A9 Submit Testimony Again Thanks to you, we are on our way! SB 770-A9 to create the Universal Health Care Task Force has moved out of Ways and Means Subcommittee on Capital Construction and is headed...
Urgent Update – SB 770A Final Push
Urgent Alert Update: SB 770A Final Push Time to Show Up or Submit Testimony Senator James Manning has been fighting with us for Universal Health Care. He hopes that...