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Americans Are Borrowing a Staggering Amount of Money to Pay for Their Healthcare

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · April 09, 2019 1:40 PM

Libby Watson from Splinter News, reported on a recent Gallup Poll which showed that millions of Americans have to borrow money in order to pay their healthcare bills.  April 2, 2019.   This article supports HCACF's position on the importance of implementing a Public National Health Insurance to finance universal public and private health care delivery.

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US Should Transition to Single-Payer Health Care System

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · March 13, 2019 2:04 PM · 1 reaction

In this 9-minute video, Dr. Adam Gaffney makes the case that "only Medicare for All can fix the grave dysfunctions and injustices of the American health care system".  Fox News correspondents assert "extraordinary costs" of single payer insurance, refuted by Dr. Gaffney, who notes the U.S. spends twice as much as other high-income nations with worse outcomes. Large savings of single payer for hospital and drug costs, and especially for administrative costs, permit compensation for providers that is essentially unchanged under single payer. Dr. Gaffney contrasts the right of health coverage under Medicare for All with the unfairness of so-called "free-market" health care in which only those who can afford it get care.

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A Single-Payer Advocate Answers the Big Question: How Do We Pay For It?

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · March 05, 2019 10:19 AM

Dylan Scott from Vox interviewed Matt Bruenig from the People's Policy Project "on what he worries about — and what he doesn’t — for Medicare-for-all".  Matt answered some tough healthcare questions such as "How do you finance a single-payer health care system?" " Is it possible for the health care supply to meet its demand?"  and "What can the government do for rural hospitals that feel a pinch under single-payer?"
 

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We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · February 26, 2019 9:44 AM

In the article We Don’t Need Private Health Insurance, a case is made that Medicare for All (M4A) health care reform is in fact a simple substitution of the private health insurance by a public national health insurance that provides access to basic health services. The article further defines the role for private health insurance including; “duplicative” plans, “supplementary” plans, and “complementary” plans, all of which are defined by the writer.

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How Healthy is our Healthcare and Why Does it Cost So Much?

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · February 20, 2019 8:56 AM

HCACF Board member Vince Markovchick, MD presents how American taxpayers are paying more for their healthcare than people living in countries with national health insurance.  He asks and answers the following questions: What is the root cause of our healthcare dilemma? Why are our costs so high? What are the attributes of the “Ideal” health insurance plan? He also explains healthcare waste, cost and abuse in our U.S. insurance system, and why public opinion in the United States strongly favors single-payer national health insurance.

 

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Nurse Talk Interviews Mark Dudzic About Single Payer

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · February 05, 2019 12:50 PM

The people will win Medicare for All. Thousands united this week to prove it. Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of Labor Campaign for Single Payer, was on Nurse Talk discussing the need for a grassroots movement in support of healthcare justice. His organization, Labor Campaign for Single Payer, deems healthcare to be a necessity and strongly supports a Single-Payer Medicare-for-All healthcare system for all Americans.  Mark Dudzic calls for activists to get involved, especially during the Week of Action February 9-13, when there will be Barnstorm events throughout the country in support of Medicare-for-All.  

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Roadmap to Single Insurer - Revised

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · October 26, 2018 10:25 AM

HCAC Foundation Board member Robert Messman has revised his original paper on sustainably financing and implementing a single insurer health care system.

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Single Payer is Not a Government Takover

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · September 05, 2018 3:24 PM

The Pagosa Daily Post published a letter to the editor written by HCACF Board Member, Michele Swenson.  Ms. Swenson explains how single payer healthcare is a financing model and not a government takeover,  and clearly cites the difference between healthcare delivery and health insurance.

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Health Insurers Writing Big Checks to Democrats as Single Payer Support Grows

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · June 28, 2018 12:11 PM

Political action committees of the 5 biggest for-profit health insurers - Aetna, Anthem, Humana, Cigna and United Health – are making large campaign donations to almost as many congressional Democrats as Republicans, in order to counter growing popular support for single payer insurance. As much as they oppose single payer, commercial insurers promote Medicare Advantage plans, which have become increasingly profitable to private insurers. The Coalition for Medicare Choices, created by AHIP, claims to be for the people, but is lobbying Congress to protect insurers’ Medicare Advantage profits.

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Insurers’ donations to House Democrats by company as % of total contributions to date
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New Health Care Forum Page

Posted on Main Blog by Susan Gilbert · April 25, 2018 10:50 AM

Please visit our new page called "Health Care Forum" and join the conversation.  We welcome hearing your thoughts and ideas about healthcare and healthcare reform.   New items will be listed weekly.

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