HOUSE INTERIM COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE – Inform. Meeting Weds, December 12, 2018
https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017I1/Downloads/CommitteeAgenda/HHC/2018-12-12-12-00?guid=7ba9c91d-9fbd-0d00-e054-02082091f14b WEDNESDAY December 12, 2018 12:00 P.M. HR 50 Oregon State Capitol 900 Court Street NE, Salem, Oregon 97301 Committee Members: Rep. Mitch Greenlick, Chair Rep. Cedric Hayden, Vice-Chair Rep. Rob Nosse, Vice-Chair Rep. Teresa Alonso Leon Rep. Denyc...
Hospital Letter Urging Patient to Start ‘Fundraising Effort’ to Pay for Heart Treatment
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/24/hospital-letter-urging-patient-start-fundraising-effort-pay-heart-treatment-seen-yet Hospital Letter Urging Patient to Start ‘Fundraising Effort’ to Pay for Heart Treatment Seen as Yet Another Reason America Needs Medicare for All “‘You can’t have a heart unless you do GoFundMe for 10K’ is not a just...
Trump Administration Aims to Privatize, Not Improve, Health Care for Veterans
http://hcao-rv.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=1108&action=edit November 13, 2018 Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated healthcare system in the country. The author of “Wounds of War” says It is a model we can draw upon for the country, but the corporate media deems...
New PNHP Website Goes Online
November 5, 2018 Dear single-payer supporter, Over the past 30 years, PNHP has built a reputation as a trusted source for evidence-based health policy, information, and tools for single-payer advocates. Each year, nearly half a million visitors access pnhp.org,...
Medicare for All University
Health Care for All Oregon and PNHP Oregon Activists, The national business group Richard Master, producer of Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point and Big Pharma: Market Failure, is affiliated with has developed a simple website explaining for...
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,...