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What’s missing in Newsom’s budget that has public health officials worried.

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By MELODY GUTIERREZSTAFF WRITER MAY 20, 2021 5 AM PT SACRAMENTO — Healthcare advocates in California are pushing back against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget plan released last week, saying it follows a dangerous pattern of underfunding local public health agencies despite glaring funding inadequacies exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health leaders asked that $200 million in ongoing funding […]

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Medicine and Social Justice

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Scamming Medicare: It’s the providers and insurers, not the patients!
I have often written about universal health care and favored a single-payer system, or, in its current incarnation, Medicare for All. I still do and will have some more to say about it in a bit, but wanted to begin by providing some recent examples of the outrageous abuses of our non-system of health care. More important, abuses of the people who are supposed to be receiving health care. Actually, it is not so much that these are examples of new practices, but rather that there have been important recent articles exposing them.

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Single-Payer Bill Shelved, Advocates Call on Newsom to Take Lead on Medicare for All

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“The fastest, most direct path to Medicare for All has always gone through the governor,” said one single-payer campaigner.

byBrett Wilkins, staff writer

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Medical Tourism

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Medical Tourism Association President Renee-Marie Stephano shares which counties she believes are best when considering a foreign medical procedure. Plus, Harvard professor and author of “Patients with Passports” Glenn Cohen shares his tips to consider before traveling abroad for a procedure.

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A telemarketer. An Alzheimer’s patient. A health insurance nightmare

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She also found a letter from Anthem Blue Cross saying it was sorry that Williamson’s mom is no longer a Medicare Advantage customer. The Anthem coverage was connected to Williamson’s mom being employed in the past by the Los Angeles Unified School District.

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California’s Golden Healthcare Opportunity

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A 2016 study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research revealed that 71% of all healthcare expenditure in California in 2016 was paid for by taxpayers. Coupled with the previously mentioned administrative waste, Californians are essentially paying for universal healthcare, just not getting it.

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Delaying action on CalCare is a Mistake

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California nurses say that delaying action on establishing guaranteed health care for the state is a mistake, Californians cannot wait. Lawmakers today are choosing to delay for another year action on AB 1400, the bill known as CalCare that would establish a guaranteed, single-payer health system for all California residents, using the excuse that they

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Debbie Dingell Done With Universal Health Care

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U.S. Representative Debbie Dingell says she’s done with taking “baby steps” toward universal health care in the U.S. and that it’s time for the nation to embrace a single-payer system.

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Call to Action

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To say that we are outraged is an understatement. This is personal to us, it feels like a personal attack on us. We are saddened, angered, hurt but resolved in our fight to secure health equity for Black families.

Black Women for Wellness Action Project

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CalCare AB1400 Tabled by Legislature

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In light of the worst public health care crisis in a century legislators have chosen to put profits before their constituents. Where people of color have disproportionately become ill and died and Blatant disregard shows the lack of compassion, empathy.

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