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May 8, 2024
News Flash: Other Wealthy Nations Have Better Health Coverage Than US
Rethinking Health Care from a Global Perspective: Looking Abroad The Commonwealth Fund Blog MAY 2, 2024 By Aaron Carroll All other high-income countries have adopted a universal health coverage system, and many middle- and low-income countries are also moving in [...]
May 4, 2024
Philip R. Lee’s 1986 Call for National Health Insurance
This Date in UCSF History: National Health Insurance Ahead? UCSF Student Voices Synapse April 23, 2024 (Originally authored by Dr. Philip R. Lee — a UCSF professor of social medicine and director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies — and [...]
May 1, 2024
Cutting Back Medicare & Medicaid Would Kill Tens of Thousands
Study: Proposed changes to Medicare, Medicaid could cost thousands of lives Yale News April 22, 2024 By Mallory Locklear Proposed changes to the United States’ Medicare and Medicaid programs could lead to thousands of additional deaths each year, a new [...]
April 27, 2024
Medicare for All Individual Cost Calculator
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Email to supporters April 25, 2024 Republicans HATE Medicare for All and they’re doing everything in their power to protect Big Pharma and our private, for-profit health care system. This 100% free and accessible calculator compares the [...]
April 21, 2024
Medicaid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) (28 minute video) April 18, 2024 John Oliver discusses why millions of people have been kicked off of Medicaid, why Medicaid access was difficult even before the current “unwinding”, and what would [...]
April 15, 2024
Political Party Split vs Concurrence on Government Guarantee of Health Care
Changing Partisan Coalitions in a Politically Divided Nation Pew Research Center April 9, 2024 The combined effects of change and continuity have left the country’s two major parties at virtual parity: About half of registered voters (49%) identify as Democrats [...]