Darcy Hitchcock – What the US could learn from Portugal’s health system – Posted February 23, 2025
“In 1950, Portugal has a life expectancy of only 60 years, one of the worst in developed nations. Now, with a fraction of the cost that the US spends, provides far better results by focusing on primary care and public health, not fancy buildings and expensive treatments.”
https://darcyhitchcock.wordpress.com/
US Healthcare – ‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctors – Posted February 23, 2025
“Firms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/us-health-insurance-system-doctors
Colorado Health Care Action – Kill one person and it’s murder, kill thousands and it’s business as usual. We need to change that! – Posted February 23, 2025
“Daily Kos – EVIDENCE: Health insurance companies are killing us solely for CEO, executive, & shareholder pro”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/
One Payer States – Nearly half of primary care doctors in the U.S. are burned out and over one-third plan to stop seeing patients in one to three years, according to the Commonwealth Fund. – Posted February 23, 2025
“Our profits-over-care system is reaching a breaking point. Patients suffer and so do doctors. We need universal health care.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/
Commentary: More than ever, we need the New York Health Act – Posted February 23, 2025
“The program would provide comprehensive coverage to every New Yorker and would fill the gaps in our current inequitable health care funding — and any new gaps created by Washington.”
https://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/commentary-ever-need-new-york-health-act-19976137
Here are 5 of the most frustrating health insurer tactics — and why they exist – Posted February 23, 2025
“Yet even for those with health insurance, coverage does not ensure access to care, much less high-quality and affordable care.”
https://www.alternet.org/health-insurance/
Dr Joseph Q. Jarvis: What is the Conservative Case for Single Payer? – Posted January 29, 2025
“The partisan shouting match in Washington about health system reform has ended with no resolution. The problem of health system reform, none-the-less, remains. It is arguably the single most important unresolved domestic issue in America. Without real and sustainable health system reform the United States will continue to waste a…”
https://josephqjarvis.com/what-is-the-conservative-case-for-single-payer?
The Guardian: Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced – Posted January 29, 2025
“The 2024 “winners” of the annual Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the Lown Institute, an independent healthcare thinktank.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering
Daily KOS: Health Insurance Companies are Killing Us… – Posted January 29, 2025
A Daily KOS story includes a video that “highlights the systemic failures of for-profit health insurance companies in the United States, emphasizing how these entities prioritize profits over patient care, leading to unnecessary deaths and suffering.”
Durango premiere showing of Healing US. – Posted October 9, 2023
Colorado Healthcare Coalition presented a showing of the film Healing US at the Durango Public Library on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. The event was free, and there was a good discussion after the film.
What we learned:
- How Medicare for All is much cheaper than what we have now
- About the devastation the lack of universal health care has imposed on thousands upon thousands of people in the U. S
Watch the trailer at this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PI92D82b1w
Durango premiere showing of American Hospitals. – Posted July 15, 2023
Colorado Healthcare Coalition will presented a showing of the film American Hospitals at the Durango Public Library on Thursday, August 3, 2023. The event was free, and there was a good discussion after the film.
What we learned:
- Why safety net hospitals and rural hospitals are at risk of closing or eliminating services
- Why hospitals focus on high tech care instead of primary care
- How rising hospital costs contribute to lower wages
- Why Maryland has the lowest hospital costs in the U.S.
NPR News reports on woman battling cancer and bill collectors. – Posted July 9, 2022
How the cost of cancer treatment is driving Americans into debt : Shots – Health News : NPR
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Bernie Sanders reintroduces Medicare for All bill in the Senate – Posted May 12, 2022
NEWS: Sanders Introduces Medicare for All with 14 Colleagues in the Senate » Senator Bernie Sanders
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