If we deny health care to undocumented immigrants, can we save money?
By Samuel Metz, MD Let’s break this into specific questions. Does the cost of immigrant health care exceed what they pay? Immigrants subsidize care of for native-born Americans. Medicare receives more in payments from immigrants than it spends on...
About the Rogue Valley Group of Health Care for All Oregon
Health Care for All Oregon (HCAO) is the a coalition of more than eighty organizations representing labor, businesses, health care professionals, faith communities and groups of diverse citizen activists around the state. HCAO-Rogue Valley is one of HCAO’s statewide...
Am I my brother’s keeper? Who pays for health care for the undeserving?
By Samuel Metz, MD— My brother-in-law Max has smoked since he was 12 years old. Now he’s turning 40 and hates the miserable habit. His many efforts to quit reduced his three-pack a day habit to one, but he...
Single Payer in Oregon
As a member of Healthcare for All Oregon and a healthcare consumer, I have given a great deal of thought to the state of medical coverage in Oregon and nationwide. Currently, my husband and I have coverage through my...