Health care and the U.S. economy The US Economy is being choked by our healthcare system. It costs us $4.3 trillion, or about $13,000 per person, each year. This breathtaking expenditure represents over 18% of the US gross domestic product (GDP). […]
“Federal health programs have dodged a budgetary bullet in the Washington showdown over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.” The Debt Ceiling Deal Takes a Bite Out of Health Programs. It Could Have Been Much Worse. [Last UPDATED at 8:30 […]
“’The individual mandate was not intended to create funds for other government programs outside of health care,’ said Democratic Assembly member Jim Wood, of Santa Rosa, chair of the Assembly Health Committee, at a heated budget hearing this spring. ‘The clear intent of the legislature […]
Action Alerts Zoom Webinar with Wendell PotterLies, Fraud, Naked Profiteering inMedicare Privatization Schemes Monday June 5 at 5 pm PT Register Here Sponsored by Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action Urge your California legislators to sponsor and vote for SB770, “Unified Health […]
“Doctors are showing — through their words and actions — that they are reluctant to practice in places where making the best decision for a patient could result in huge fines or even a prison sentence. And when clinics that provide abortions close their doors, […]
“Under the leadership of an aggressive opponent of anti-competitive business practices, the Federal Trade Commission is moving against drug companies and industry middlemen as part of the Biden administration’s push for lower drug prices at the pharmacy counter.” A More Aggressive FTC Is […]
Action Alerts 1. Urge your California legislators to sponsor andvote for SB770, “Unified Health Care Financing” Up for full Senate Vote before 6/2/23Click to look up your California representatives 2. Urge your members of Congress to supportSen. Bernie Sanders’ and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’ssingle-payer bills […]
“Senator Bernie Sanders & Representative Pramila Jayapal re-introduced their Medicare-for-All bills on May 17th. Although prospects for passage are low this Congress, enthusiasm for organizing is high. By including everyone in health care, we save money. If only the Right and Left could […]
“Although the nation made progress in closing the gap between white and Black mortality rates from 1999 to 2011, that advance stalled from 2011 to 2019. In 2020, the enormous number of deaths from covid-19 — which hit Black Americans particularly hard — erased two […]