Ex-UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon Censures US Healthcare
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/09/25/575201/US-healthcare-Trump-Ban-Kimoon Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has denounced the United States’ healthcare system as being “unethical”, “unfair” and outright “wrong.” The South Korean politician said, “Nobody would imagine that there should be so many people – 30 million...
OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY – UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE WORK GROUP – MEETING SUMMARY
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/salinas/HealthCareDocuments/Project%20Access%20NOW%20-%20Infographic%20-%202017%20Premium%20Assistance%20Annual%20Report.pdf August 23, 2018 Meeting Summary Dr. Andrew Bindman Report Discussion The work group members introduced themselves. Dr. Bindman introduced himself and his report, A Path to Universal Coverage and Unified Health Care Financing in California. He explained that...
California Single Payer Proposal – Final Report
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/salinas/HealthCareDocuments/2.%20California%20Single%20Payer%20Report%20Final.pdf A PATH TO UNIVERSAL COVERAGE AND UNIFIED HEALTH CARE FINANCING IN CALIFORNIA Executive Summary In March 2017, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon appointed a Select Committee on Health Care Delivery Systems and Universal Coverage to identify the best...
HR 6097 – State-Based Universal Health Care Act of 2018’
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/salinas/HealthCareDocuments/3.%20H.R.6097%20%E2%80%94%20115th%20Congress%20(2017-2018).pdf...
HR-6505 – Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6505/text A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate prices of prescription drugs furnished under part D of the Medicare program. Three Oregon co-sponsors,...
Koch-funded Think Tank Makes the Case for Single Payer
July 31, 2018 Dear colleague: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Thanks to years of educating and organizing, single payer has moved one more notch up the scale of...
Summary of Presentations from National Single Payer Conference held in Minneapolis – June 2018
Last month, nearly 400 labor and social movement activists came together in Minneapolis for the National Single Payer Strategy Conference. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer and Healthcare Now. Over 3 days, attendees...
Swimming With Sharks: Prospects for Single-Payer
Article from PNHP – Single Payer or Incremental Movement Forward? New Prospects for Single-Payer Activists: Swimming in the Mainstream . . . With Sharks Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H and David U. Himmelstein, M.D. PNHP researchers Steffie...
Are doctors ready to embrace single payer health care?
http://advocacyblog.acponline.org/2018/02/are-doctors-ready-to-embrace-single.html “The Kaiser Family Foundation’s June 2017 tracking poll found (a high) level of support for single payer, with 53 percent in favor and 43 percent opposed.” “Doctors also appear to be warming to single payer, according to some recent polls. And, as I have...
JAMA Article – Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/salinas/HealthCareDocuments/4.%20Health%20Care%20Spending%20in%20the%20United%20States%20and%20Other%20High-Income%20Countries%20JAMA%202018.pdf The United States spends approximately twice as much as other high-income countries on medical care, yet utilization rates in the United States were largely similar to those in other nations. Prices of labor and goods, including pharmaceuticals, and...