Action Alerts
1. Urge your California legislators to sponsor and
vote for SB770, “Unified Health Care Financing”
Up for full Senate Vote before 6/2/23
Click to look up your California representatives
2. Urge your members of Congress to support
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ and Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s
single-payer bills
Click for an overview of the Medicare for All Act of 2023
featuring Eagan Kemp, Public Citizen & Benjamin Day, Healthcare NOW!
Click to look up your members of Congress using your address
Please urge them to sign on as original cosponsors!
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“On May 16, the FTC sued to block the merger of drugmakers Amgen and Horizon Therapeutics, saying the tangled web of drug industry deal-making would enable Amgen to leverage the monopoly power of two top Horizon drugs that have no rivals.”
A More Aggressive FTC Is Starting to Target Drug Mergers and Industry Middlemen
KFF Health News | Arthur Allen | May 22, 2023
“Medicaid’s ‘Great Unwinding’ is even worse than experts expected.”
Hundreds of Thousands of Americans are Losing Medicaid Every Month
Vox | Dylan Scott | May 19, 2023
“…the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission projected that in 2023, the trust fund will pay $27 billion more for MA enrollees, or 6% more, than similar patients with traditional Medicare.”
Congress Hearing Explores Medicare Advantage Routines That Deny, Delay Needed Care
MedPage Today | Cheryl Clark | May 18, 2023
“Under the Republican plan, … Medicaid recipients would have to document 80 hours a month of work,…or log hours doing community service or participating in a work training program.”
The Debt Ceiling Debate Could Put Health Insurance in Jeopardy for Millions
NBC News | Shannon Pettypiece | May 18, 2023
“More than half of the Democratic caucus in the House has signed on as co-sponsors of the Medicare for All Act of 2023, including 13 powerful ranking members of congressional committees.”
Medicare for All Reintroduced to Save $650 Billion and 68,000 Lives Per Year
Common Dreams | Julia Conley | May 17, 2023
“In 2020, the enormous number of deaths from covid-19 — which hit Black Americans particularly hard — erased two decades of progress.”
Study Reveals Staggering Toll of Being Black in America: 1.6M Excess Deaths Over 22 Years
Kaiser Health News | Liz Szabo | May 16, 2023
“…the [Office of Management & Budget] estimated federal programs could be cut by up to 30%….”
The GOP Proposal to Raise the Debt Ceiling Would Force Americans on Social Security and Medicare to Wait Longer to Receive Help and Make College More Expensive, the White House Says
Business Insider | Ayelet Sheffey, Juliana Kaplan | May 16, 2023
“…CEOs of the four for-profit systems managed to bring home a collective $43.3 million across their reported total compensations….”
Here’s What the CEOs and CFOs of Major For-Profit Health Systems Made in 2022
Fierce Healthcare | Dave Muoio | May 15, 2023
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