Aging at Home Will Be Harder With Planned Medicaid Home Assistance Care Cuts
http://www.nextavenue.org/aging-at-home-medicaid-cuts/ May 17, 2017 Home- and community-based services are vulnerable. The vast majority of people in nursing homes do not need to be there, they just need some home supports. — Leonardo Cuello, National Health Law Program...
Skyrocketing Costs For Seniors Under The AHCA
From: bruce bauer Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2017 9:25 PM Subject: health care Newspapers Gave Scant Coverage To Skyrocketing Costs For Seniors Under The AHCA The AHCA Will Dramatically Increase Costs And Reduce Coverage For Seniors. The AHCA raises...
Nader Rips Sanders Democrats for Putting Single Payer on Back Burner
Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) promised single payer activists that he would introduce his single payer bill in the Senate within the next couple of weeks. Now, according to Sanders’ staff, it’s not going to happen. In putting...
Eugene Passes Local Resolution Supporting HealthCare Reform
From: CHARLIE SWANSON <CSWANEE@msn.com> Subject: Eugene’s local resolution Date: May 2, 2017 at 5:50:32 PM PDT The Eugene City Council passed the attached local resolution on April 19 by a 6-1 vote. I am sure most of you can...
Single-Payer Activists Come to Salem, Tout Universal Care Study
The state’s single-payer activists made their annual descent on Salem on Thursday April 20, 2017, championing their perennial legislation to implement publicly financed, privately delivered healthcare — this time accompanied by new research from the Rand Corporation, showing that...
Health Care Hearing Testimony by Alan Journet – April 20, 2017
Possibly I am one of few testifying on this proposal who grew up in a nation with a single payer health care system. Indeed, I grew up in the U.K. After that, I spent several years in Canada, then...
Single-Payer Bernie Morphs Into Public Option Dean
Single-Payer Bernie Morphs Into Public Option Dean …Sanders is telling reporters he wants to “move toward Medicare for all…Right now we need to improve the Affordable Care Act and that means a public option,” Sanders tweeted yesterday....
Walden’s District Greatest Republican Beneficiary of ObamaCare
http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/03/03/biggest-growth-in-medicaid-patients-under-obamacare-was-in-rep-greg-waldens-district/ Oregon Republican chairs the House committee charged with repealing and replacing Affordable Care Act. ...
You’re On Your Own: Attack on Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security Planned
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39715-you-re-on-your-own-republicans-plan-attack-on-medicaid-medicare-and-social- Sunday, March 5, 2017 Eleanor J. Bader Truthout / Report: “Ending Social Security and Medicare are Paul Ryan‘s reasons for living,” says Alex Lawson of Social Security Works. “Under the cover of chaos caused by Trump, Ryan has...
Dr. Margaret Flowers Video Interview
https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/377845-us-health-care-system/ Medicare for All with Dr. Margaret Flowers Published time: 19 Feb, 2017 Chris Hedges discusses how the dysfunctional US health care system can be fixed with Dr. Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician and leading advocate for a single-payer system....