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PNHP Newsletter: Spring 2024

…of Medicare. These include Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action, Health Care for All WA, and Health Care is a Human Right WA. Finally, members have been writing and circulating…

Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less?

Why only a single-payer system can solve Americaā€™s health-care mess.

…of health care in the United States with health care in other countries shows how large these cost savings might be. When Canada first adopted its current health-care financing system…

Yes, We Can! Can We?

The Next Failure of Health Care Reform

…call for universal care. Then, in 1992, Bill Clinton (who borrowed extensively from Jackson’s 1988 proposals) put the call for universal health care at the center of his program. But,…

Rep. Dennis Kucinich Tackles Health Care

…basic medical care, plus dental care, vision care, mental health care, long term care, prescription drugs and even broader coverage. We’re already paying for this. We’re not getting it. We…

PNHP Newsletter: Fall 2023

…Urban Institute,” Modern Healthcare, 7/6/23. Medicare Advantage insurer pays largest fraud settlement in Maine state history: Martin’s Point Health Care Inc. will pay almost $22.5 million to resolve allegations of…

Data Update – Spring 2014 newsletter

UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED

…revenues, are HCP, Ventas, and Healthcare REIT (Chart, “10 largest healthcare real estate investment trusts,” Modern Healthcare, 9/9/13). • While the insurance industry is expected to spend $1 billion on…

Data Update – Spring 2014 newsletter

…poor health from $1,128 to $3,191 annually, but they still spent a similar amount, $3,382, out of pocket (excluding premiums) for health care (“Health care spending and the Medicare Program,”…