Maine AllCare

So many disparities in coverage. It’s long past time to have one publicly funded plan for all!

Maine’s marketplace health insurance rates will increase again, but not as much as last year • Maine Morning Star Marketplace health insurance rates for individuals and small group employers in Maine will go up by eight and nine percent respectively next January.

Welcome to the fight Ariana Ramsey!!

Read more: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/us-rugby-player-ari-ramsey-is-amazed-by-free-healthcare-at-the-olympics

“The deaths of Americans we have witnessed due to insulin rationing and other medication costs need to be left in the past as we move toward a future where health care and prescription medications are considered a human right. We can begin to achieve that goal by including everyone, especially people without insurance, in the expanded $35 cap on insulin and $2,000 cap on prescription drugs.”

The Most Important Word in The Democratic Party Platform for Health care EDITOR’S NOTE:

Join usat the Common Ground Fair! Sept. 20-22. We'll be tabling all three days and doing a talk on Saturday.

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We're excited to be back at the Common Ground Fair! Sept. 20-22. We'll be tabling all three days and doing a talk on Saturday.

Want to volunteer at our table?
Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3X6wkFb
Learn more about the fair: https://www.mofga.org/the-fair/explore-the-fair/

Another way that Medicare Advantage bilks money from taxpayers

How UnitedHealth turned a questionable artery-screening program into a gold mine This is the second in a periodic series from STAT about how UnitedHealth Group wields its unrivaled physician empire to boost profits and expand its influence.

The family of long-time Maine AllCare supporter Dr. Sam Bergman is inviting us to his Celebration of Life. Sam provided legislative testimony, tabled at events, and was involved in our chapters for many years.

Please join us for a Celebration of Life for
Sam Bergman
On Wednesday
August 28,2024 from7:00-8:30pm
At 95 Settlers Drive, Hancock, ME.
Or on ZOOM: Please RSVP to [email protected], if you want to join us on ZOOM. Send your email address so his family can send you a link a few days before.

Universal healthcare must include reproductive healthcare. While we fight for Improved Medicare for All, we must also protect our healthcare rights.

From Roe to Dobbs to Comstock: How the GOP Plans to Create a National Abortion Ban through Project 2025 Resurrecting the zombie 1873 Comstock Act - to enact a national prohibition on all abortion-related activity - aka, 'An Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, obscene Literature and Articles of immoral Use' - is a central component of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 plan for...

U.S. Athletes Are Taking Full Advantage of Free Healthcare in Olympic Village Women’s rugby player Ariana Ramsey’s videos showcasing her appointments have gone viral, and now many others are making good use of Paris's medical services.

All health insurance companies practice medicine without a license. Why do we let them? We need

“In this cross-sectional study, the most socially vulnerable counties were found to have the fewest highest-rated plans for MA beneficiaries.

As MA enrollment grows in socially vulnerable regions, this may exacerbate regional differences in health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries.”

A universal healthcare supporter in Washington state, our friend Alan Unell, writes a regular blog on Substack.
Please “enjoy” and then take action.

Trauma, PBMs, & State Based Single Payer Health Insurance A free public service for a better community

A conservative case for single-payer health care The U.S. government should provide health insurance for every one of its citizens. This is very conservative — at least if the word still means anything.

Full article: https://bit.ly/3LmjMTD

A January 2024 survey “found that 16% of [health] systems are planning to stop accepting one or more plans in the next two years.

Another 45% said they are considering the same, but have not made a final decision.”

BREAKING: new article from WSJ details exactly how insurance companies repeatedly lie about patient diagnoses in order to make bigger profits, going so far as to claim patients have conditions that it would be IMPOSSIBLE for them to have!

These tactics meant an extra $50 BILLION in taxpayer dollars over three years went to insurance companies for diagnoses THEY ADDED to patient charts.

We’re sick of these companies putting profits over people. We need immediate accountability and a healthcare system that works for all.

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"'Provider' suggests that medicine is about money, not care. Payers may see medicine as transactional in terms of generating RVUs or revenue, but physicians need not sit idly by as care is commodified and medicine is turned into a business.

Physicians' work cannot be boiled down to coding and billing, nor are we merely dispensing tests, medicines, and procedures. Instead, our very reason for being, which should inform everything we do, is to care for patients."

It’s time to move beyond 'provider' Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can also harm us. One such word is provider. When used to refer to physicians, it damages every medical professional’s morale, sense of worth, and fulfillment. It undermines our sense of calling.

If physicians tell us administrative burden is a problem, and researchers tell us administrative burden is a problem, and common sense tells us administrative burden is a problem—then we should do something about administrative burden.

Please add your voice to the call for universal healthcare!

The State-Based Universal Health Care Act in the House and Senate will empower and fund states to create their own one-payer systems. YOU CAN HELP! Sign the petition in support of the act: https://bit.ly/3I9CJqX

One Payer States alongside Social Security Works and dozens of other organizations are working together to build support and public awareness. Add your name to the fight!

https://www.onepayerstates.org/