League of Women Voters H/C Caucus Single Payer Presentations
Saturday, June 27, 2020 LWVUS Health Care Caucus presentations Here is the link to two presentations at the National LWV Conference Health Care Caucus on June 24. Each is about 20 minutes plus Q & A. Well worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4ZinkVuF44&t=737s...
People Are Still Avoiding the Doctor – But Not Because of the Virus
” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/health/coronavirus-insurance-healthcare.html?fbclid=IwAR1q8SPiz6qEEloLt2p9qturXfptJ85VXa2oPr01K_N-Jh1tpQvAYG76ZsA” ...
Total Federal Payout To Oregon Hospitals In Flux – Lund Report
https://www.thelundreport.org/content/total-federal-payout-oregon-hospitals-flux The federal payments to Oregon hospitals under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic totals hundreds of millions of dollars, but nailing an exact figure is difficult....
PNHP welcomes Medicare emergency expansion proposals
Fri, May 1, 2020 Dr. Adam Gaffney, PNHP President Reply-To: “Dr. Adam Gaffney, PNHP President” To: Betsy Zucker, HCAO Dear colleague, The COVID-19 pandemic and economic meltdown have exposed the fault lines in our fractured health care system. Each...
Pandemic Shows The U.S. Needs Medicare For All – The Lund Report
https://www.thelundreport.org/content/opinion-pandemic-shows-us-needs-medicare-all The Lund Report By: Bill Walsh Medicare for all protest.jpg Now is truly the time for Medicare for All. With more than 10 million Americans applying for unemployment in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 70 million who were...
Medicare for Each of Us in the Age of the Coronavirus
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/03/medicare-each-us-age-coronavirus?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium= The U.S. public—and increasingly the business community—are becoming acutely aware of the rising costs and inadequacies of our current for-profit system, particularly as the current epidemic unfolds. There is no other choice but Medicare for All. by Peter...
The response letter sent to Merkley’s heath care staffer
From: Debby Schwartz Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 To: HCAO National Strategy Committee Subject: Re: The followup letter sent to Merkley’s heath care staffer: On Apr 1, 2020, Debby Schwartz wrote: Dear Elvia, Senator Merkley’s letter “From coronavirus...
Merkley Response to HCAO Letter on Coronavirus
Senator Merkley wrote this wonderful letter in response to our Coronavirus crisis. He said: “Every American must have the opportunity to participate in simple, seamless, cost-effective Medicare for All.” A couple of us of been talking about writing a thank...
TARBELL REPORT – Is Relying on China for Prescription Drugs a National Security Risk?
While Chinese manufacturing plants have been scrutinized for safety issues, American pharmaceutical companies have relied on them for sourcing cheaper ingredients for generic drugs since 2001. Now, this dependence is raising new concerns as a national security risk. Thousands...
Medicare for All Is the Shot We Have to Make Happen
There’s nothing realistic about passing Medicare for All. We know we’re outgunned, outspent, and outmatched. And yet we have no other choice. Throughout 2019, Iowans were walloped with political commercial after political commercial, owing to the fluke that their...