In States That Didn’t Expand Medicaid, Voters Might Do It Anyway
Ballot measures in Idaho, Utah, Nebraska and Montana will give voters a chance to decide given the failure of their elected leaders to do so.
UHCAN’s October National Call
Kavanaugh hearings – What is the path from outrage to action? … Public Charge Rule would redefine social safety net … Fighting for Health Care for All – Updates from the frontlines … High drug price issue is HOT, but also a stake in the “new NAFTA”
Medicare-for-All and Public Plan Buy-In Proposals: Overview and Key Issues
What does “Medicare for All” mean? This brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation summarizes key issues and legislative proposals as this policy debate has received renewed attention on Capitol Hill and on the campaign trail this year.
UHCAN’s September National Call
The midterm elections are a big deal for health care activists … Women’s health care IS health care …. Drug cost fights getting even hotter
5 Things To Know About Trump’s New ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Proposal
… this proposal punishes hard-working immigrant families — even targeting children who are citizens — for utilizing programs that provide basic nutrition and healthcare
Puerto Rico is being forced to cut Medicaid to reduce its debt
The federal government only pays 17% of Puerto Rico’s Medicaid costs to begin with, compared to 70% for the states, so further cuts will devastate the Island even more
Medicine’s Financial Contamination
The fall from grace last week of Dr. José Baselga, the former chief scientific officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, illuminated a longstanding problem of modern medicine: Potentially corrupting payments by drug and medical device makers to influential people at research hospitals are far more common than either side publicly acknowledges.
Learning from the history of the fight to pass Medicare …
The history of the fight for single-payer health care for the elderly and poor should inform today’s movement to win for Medicare for All.
States Rein In Prescription Costs, and Drug Companies Fight Back
The burst of state activity on drug costs recalls the way states acted on their own to pass laws to expand health insurance coverage in the years before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010