GAO report shows that growing income inequality has deadly consequences for poor Americans
The expanding gap between rich and poor … is helping the rich lead longer lives, while cutting short the lives of those who are struggling …
Medicare-for-All? Public Option? What Does It All Mean for Low-Income Individuals?
What do these proposals mean for the 65 million low-income individuals – essentially 1 in 5 – that receive their insurance through Medicaid?
UHCAN’s September 2019 Call
Be a Hero project … Pressure builds on Congress to do something about high cost drugs … National Single Payer Strategy Conference … Health care attacks in appropriations, the budget and administrative processes … Abortion clinics closing
UHCAN’s August 2019 Call
Gun violence is a political and public health issue .. Taking on powerful mega-hospital corporations … The fight over high drug prices in Congress … Making the case for business for Medicare for All
Blog: A few themes from July 2019 national call
Growing physician opposition to extreme anti-abortion laws … Words matter in the Medicare for All fight
New coalition takes on Big Pharma
A new coalition was launched this month – Lower Drug Prices Now
“Don’t Touch My Medicare!” Putting the national conversation about health care in context …
Polls repeatedly show that Medicare is one of the most popular domestic programs … Medicare’s popularity, however, comes with almost no understanding of what the program is and how it works.
UHCAN’s July 2019 Call
Things heating up in House of Medicine … Drug cost fight is not going away … Medicare for All is already an election issue …The hits keep coming – the current generation of attacks on American health care
Blog: A few themes from June 2019 UHCAN call
UHCAN’s monthly call in June opened with a focus on democracy. Our call started with this theme because UHCAN believes that, without winning the democracy battle, Americans will never win health care justice. 2020 Census There are grave concerns that adding a...UHCAN’s June National Call
We need more democracy to get Health Care Justice! … Reproductive rights and women’s health care …. Medicare for All fight this summer … Taking on Pharma: How to tell advances from detours? … Social Security … Keeping Universal Health Care on the table