…On one side, the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition has gotten the two leading DFL candidates for governor to endorse the Minnesota Health Act, which provides for a health care…
Single Payer: A Universal Plan that Curbs Obscene Costs
…health care expenditures are more humanely distributed. How Would We Pay for a Universal Single-Payer Health Care Plan? Proposed single-payer systems place a strong emphasis on preventive care. In general,…
Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
…government-sponsored health care system. The evidence is overwhelming that only such a system can achieve those goals. Isn’t it time to fight for Medicare for all? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-dolan/health-care-reform_b_1388082.html **** How Obamacare’s…
Profusion of single payer responses to Supreme Court deliberations
…healthcare reform law is just another step on the inevitable path toward a single-payer medical system, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) said Monday. http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/legal-challenges/218185-kucinich-single-payer-healthcare-on-its-way-regardless-of-how-supreme-court-rules **** Health Care Jujitsu By Robert Reich…
International experts tell senators that single-payer improves national health at less cost
…it keeps the insurance companies in charge of calling the shots (for those without Medicare, Veterans Care or Medicaid) and adding to the cost of health care through administrative costs…
Rhode Island Can Afford Health Care for All
…estimates the costs of universal health care in Rhode Island and contrasts those costs with a continuation of the current system. It shows that universal health care for the people…
NUPGE Report Card on the Romanow Report
…services – i.e. intervention services, home mental health services, palliative care, post-acute home care – through a Home Care Transfer of $2 billion over 2 years. It is not clear…
The Flaws in the “Affordable” Care Act and How to Remedy Them
…all “medically necessary health services”—including primary care, preventive care, chronic care, acute episodic care, and hospital services— and that it will pay for “at least 87 percent of the full…
The Health Care Monster Returns: Even Republicans acknowledge its ravages, but what’s the best way to slay the beast?
…“But the fundamental question is, ‘Who pays?’ Is [universal health care going to be] a sliding scale health care plan where everyone is entitled to first class health care, or…
FAQs
…download FAQ Supplemental: Coverage & Choice download FAQ Supplemental: Runaway Health Care Costs download What is single-payer health reform? Universal coverage for all medically necessary care – health care that’s…
Proposed Overture to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
…States healthcare systems and in 2008 “endorse[d] in principle the provision of single-payer universal health care reform…as the program that best responds to the moral imperative of the gospel”; (a)…
50 doctors for single payer urge Supreme Court to strike down individual mandate
…a single-payer health system much like our own Medicare,” said Dr. Margaret Flowers. “We are already spending enough on health care in this country to provide high quality, universal, comprehensive,…
