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Health Over Profit

WebHealthOverProfit.org was created to provide resources and tools in your activism for National Improved Medicare for All.

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The hidden health inequalities facing Native Americans

WebIn many ways, American Indian health has improved under the IHS over the past 20 years. For example, infant mortality decreased 67 percent between 1974 and 2009. But there are steep divisions between the health of American Indians and other Americans. American Indians continue to have lower life expectancies than other Americans and …

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About Us – Health Over Profit

WebWe are individuals, members and current or past leaders of organizations that are working to achieve a national improved Medicare for All healthcare system. We are joining together as individual people to work strategically to win this struggle. Here is a list of steering committee members (acting as individuals, not representing an organization)

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Health Care is a Commodity in the US; How We change that

WebDr. Adam Gaffney traces and explains this trend from the 1940s to the present in “ The Neo-liberal Turn in American Health Care .”. Make no mistake, currently, in the United States, health care is a commodity, and the profiteers are going wild. Since passage of the ACA, major health insurance company stock values have quadrupled.

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Placing a Price Tag on the Value of Life; An in-depth look at health

WebBy Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance. The healthcare fight is front and center right now for many reasons. The ‘Affordable Care Act’ (ACA) is manifesting itself in rising premiums and out-of-pocket costs that make it difficult for people who have health insurance to afford health care.

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Tools for Action – Health Over Profit

WebThis page has some tools and resources that will help you to organize and execute a range of creative and direct actions that target the public, corporations and members of Congress or federal agencies.

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Our Mission – Health Over Profit

WebWe believe that we must have a healthcare system in the United States that has health for everyone as the bottom line, not profits for a few. We believe that a National Improved Medicare for All system, as embodied in HR 676, is …

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Getting started – Health Over Profit

WebWelcome! If you are just learning about National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) or beginning your advocacy, you may want to start learning the basics by reading this overview page.. Then check out the NIMA legislation page where you can read the bills, find handouts and see a list of articles.. Register for the Health Over Profit for Everyone national calls …

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About – Health Over Profit

WebBy Diane Archer for The Hill Our for-profit health care system isn’t working for rural Americans. More than 120

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Health Care Timeline – Health Over Profit

Web1760: First Medical License issued: Most health care still provided by herbalists, holistic practitioners and, of course, women. 1763: Early Act of Biological Warfare in the USA: British commander gives a Native American tribe blankets laced with smallpox. Genocidal act. 1860-1865: Sojourner Truth develops wartime nursing.

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Eighty-seven million adults are inadequately insured

WebCompared to 2010, when the ACA became law, fewer people today are uninsured, but more people are underinsured. Of the 194 million U.S. adults ages 19 to 64 in 2018, an estimated 87 million, or 45 percent, were inadequately insured. There also has been some improvement in long-term uninsured rates. Among adults who were …

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Why Your Health Insurer Doesn’t Care About Your Big Bills

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Campaign funding from Health Insurance and Pharma

WebOne-third of Senate Democrats have cosponsored the Medicare for All Act, which Sanders introduced in September. Democrats who haven’t cosponsored the bill received 146 percent more money on average from health insurance companies between 2011 and 2016 than those who have ($147,186 to $59,789) and 60 percent more from …

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Private Insurance Companies Don’t Care About the Elderly

WebAbout 60 percent are seniors; the rest are younger people with disabilities.Long-term care is extremely expensive. The United States spends upward of $330 billion each year on long-term care, accounting for around 14 percent of total national healthcare expenses. The median cost of staying in a nursing home is over $90,000 per …

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Health Over Profit for Everyone Basics – Health Over Profit

WebNational Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) would create a national health insurance that covers every person living in the United States with comprehensive benefits from birth to death. It’s that simple. One set of rules. One pool of people. And one network of health professionals. This is the most efficient system.

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For-Profit Health Care Used To Be Illegal

WebIn 1973, Nixon did a personal favor for his friend and campaign financier, Edgar Kaiser, then president and chairman of Kaiser-Permanente. Nixon signed into law, the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, in which medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and even doctors, could begin functioning as for-profit business entities instead of …

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Letter to Congresswoman Jayapal – Protect Everyone’s Health

WebThe Honorable Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. 1510 Longworth House Office Building. Washington, DC 20515. Dear Ms. Jayapal, It is our utmost concern for the health of the people of the United States that compels us to urge you to correct some critical weaknesses of your draft health law.

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Submitting an OpEd – Health Over Profit

WebStar-Ledger (Newark, NJ) Op-Eds: 675 words or fewer. Include name, address, and phone number. Submissions may be sent to The. Star-Ledger, 1 Star-Ledger Plaza, Newark, NJ 07102-1200, or e-mailed to [email protected] This e-mail address is being protected from spambots.

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The High Cost of Private Profit in Health Care

WebThe excess spending on health care is not only growing, it is growing much faster than the rate of inflation, in concert with overall health care spending. For instance, the annual average of excess spending for the period of 1990 to 2000 was $685 billion. For the period of 2001 to 2010, the annual average ballooned to $1.15 trillion.

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