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Healthcare-NOW – Organizing for a national, single-payer …

WEBIn 2018, Healthcare-NOW and coalition partners launched a campaign to get Rep. Joe Kennedy, then-Rep for Massachusetts' 4th district, on the Medicare for All Act. Rep. Kennedy was of national importance to the movement because of his position on Energy and Commerce, the first committee that H.R. 1384 will have to pass in order to get to the …

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Newsletters – Healthcare-NOW

WEBEverybody In! is the quarterly newsletter of Healthcare-NOW and the Healthcare-NOW Education Fund. The newsletter aims to highlight single-payer activism from all over the country (Healthcare-NOW) and includes policy updates, interviews, and commentary (Healthcare-NOW Education Fund). Everybody In! is sent by mail to all members in good

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Single Payer School

WEBThis training will go over the healthcare crisis in the United States, misconceptions about our high healthcare costs, and single payer policy, equipping you to answer questions from legislators, coalition partners, and the public.

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What if everyone had Medicare

WEBAs I have written in one of many editorials, previous to the rise of 4.3 million more to the ranks of the uninsured (this does not count underinsured of course); the previous number of 47 million or so without any care is pretty much equal to the population of the 50 largest cities in the USA (city popultion only, not Metropolitan statistical area).

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SiCKO: the 15 Year Reunion – Healthcare-NOW

WEBShow Notes. Our guests today are: Donna Smith and husband Larry experienced financial ruin after multiple health crises forced them into medical debt, bankruptcy, and the loss of their home.; Adrian (Campbell) Montgomery, despite being fully insured, had to drive to Canada to get affordable treatment for cervical cancer.; Reggie Cervantes was a 9/11 …

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Action Center – Healthcare-NOW

WEBGet Action Updates. The best way to learn about organizing victories, opportunities to take action, and the latest developments in healthcare politics and policy.

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Health Care Series: 10 Excellent Reasons for National …

WEBDr. Steve from the Daily Kos is starting a series of diaries to provide basic information regarding how the health care system works, basic health care economics, and other general background to health care reform, with a single payer focus.

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Medicare for All Podcast – Healthcare-NOW

WEBHere at the Medicare for All Podcast, we love calling out all the bad actors in our healthcare system – greedy insurance companies, soul-less CEOs in Big Pharma,profit-hungry “non-profit hospitals”, and all our favorite villains. Mostly, we look at the ways those predators target sick people and poor people for exploitation, but today we

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Donna Smith – Healthcare-NOW

WEBMy Healthcare Story. My husband, Larry, and I have been married for nearly 40 years. We have six children and 15 grandchildren. We are among the millions of Americans who have faced financial ruin due to medical crisis and debt.

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European Healthcare and M4A – Healthcare-NOW

WEBMost of the 35 countries in the European Union and the Schengen agreement have single payer healthcare systems. And in every country but Slovakia, primary coverage is provided by public or quasi-public entities. Supplemental insurance (or "top-up" insurance) is sold in almost every healthcare system, and is sometimes delivered by profit-making entities; …

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‘Medicare for All’ would cover everyone, save billions in first year

WEBFriedman says his analysis shows that a nonprofit single-payer system based on the principles of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and co-sponsored by 45 other lawmakers, would save an estimated $592 billion in 2014. That would be more than enough to cover all 44 million

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Shark Tank for Your Health – Healthcare-NOW

WEBGillian’s Fluoxeitine (Generic Prozac): 60 mg/day at 12 from Good RX at HEB, but $31.25 from GoodRX at CVS; $5.70 + 5 shipping for MCCPDC. I guess MCCPDC wins again…. Ben’s colchicine: From costplusdrugs.com is $8.70 + $5 shipping = $13.70 for 30 pills; Ben’s current insurance co-pay: $10 for 30 pills via a retail pharmacy, or $20 for

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Longterm Care in Denmark vs the United States – Healthcare-NOW

WEBShow Notes. Depending on the state, anywhere from 40% to 60% of coronavirus deaths in the United States are taking place in long-term care facilities such as nursing homes [note: Ben incorrectly said 50 to 60% on the podcast]. This is due, in part, to our terrible system of long-term care (at least as bad as our medical care system!).. Stephanie’s father-in-law …

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President Truman’s Special Message to the Congress …

WEBNovember 19, 1945. To the Congress of the United States: In my message to the Congress of September 6, 1945, there were enumerated in a proposed Economic Bill of Rights certain rights which ought to be assured to every American citizen.

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Worries grow as healthcare firms send jobs overseas

WEBOver 60 years ago, health insurers were, uniquely, granted exemption from anti-trust law. That enables them to fix prices and not to compete like any other industry.

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