Trump and Pelosi Both Cater to Private Health Insurance – Wendell Potter
April 4, 2019 FacebookTwitterRedditEmailShare Trump’s “great healthcare plan” and opposition to Medicare for All’s “socialism” and Pelosi’s defense of the ACA and opposition to single-payer are both aimed at garnering support from the private insurance industry...
The Real “Death Panels”: Oregon Medicaid planned to cut off opioids to chronic pain patients
The Real “Death Panels”: Oregon Medicaid planned to cut off opioids to chronic pain patients At the height of the Tea Party and Republican campaign against the Affordable Care Act, the GOP raised a false alarm about “death panels” that would...
How repeal of Affordable Care Act would affect health care and jobs
https://www.epi.org/aca-obamacare-repeal-impact/ Across the country, 29.8 million people would lose their health insurance if the Affordable Care Act were repealed—more than doubling the number of people without health insurance. And 1.2 million jobs would be lost—not just in health care but across the...
2 Page Summary of Jayapal Medicare for All Act of 2019
Medicare for All Act of 2019 Summary Today’s healthcare system fails to provide quality, therapeutic healthcare as a right to all people living in the United States. Nearly 30 million Americans are uninsured, and at least 40 million more...
Jayapal Medicare for All Act of 2019 Section-by-Section – 10 page Summary
https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/medicare_for_all_section_by_section.pdf...
Medicare for All Act of 2019 (Jayapal)
https://www.scribd.com/document/400662193/Medicare-for-All-Act-of-2019-Jayapal A BILL To establish an improved Medicare for All national health insurance program. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3(a) SHORT TITLE .—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Medicare...
Public “Medicare for All” Would Save U.S. Taxpayers 1.5 Trillion Dollars
https://therealnews.com/stories/public-medicare-for-all-saves-u-s-taxpayers-1-5-trillion-dollars Contrary to Michael Bloomberg and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, potential 2020 Presidential candidates, a completely public health care program could save taxpayers 1.5 trillion dollars, claim Prof. Robert Pollin of PERI at UMass, Amherst and Adam Gaffney, President...
Current (February 2019) Pending Oregon Health Care Legislation Summarized at Rogue Valley Workshop
Bill Walsh, member of HCAO-RV and the League of Women Voters of Rogue Valley, presented to an audience of nearly 20 Health Care activists a summary of pending health care legislation (including a comparison table of federal bills in an accompanying article). Bill,...
HCAO Recommended Films on Universal Health Care
Sick Around the World- Five capitalist democracies around the world – Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Great Britain, and Germany – all have health care systems that provide health care for everyone. They have higher life expectancies, lower infant mortality rates,...