Take My Benefits — Please!
https://newpol.org/take-my-benefits-please/?print=pdf At the June 2019 House Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Medicare for All, Texas Republican Kevin Murphy lamented, “That great health care plan that your union negotiated for you? It’s gone. Banned under Medicare for All.”1...
Debate Heats Up Over Making Health Care Accessible to All
Citizens (and some candidates) are focused on healthcare in this election because getting it and being able to pay for it is a life and death issue for so many. In recent days, several tweets shared ominous news about...
Americans Putting off Medical Treatment in Record Numbers
A stunning indictment of U.S. health-care system in one chart– Americans are putting off medical treatment in record numbers because of cost, Gallup data shows. By Christopher Ingraham Reporter Dec. 10, 2019 One quarter of American adults say...
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...
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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...