Because Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege
Universal Health Coverage
Providers Speak Out
The Unsustainable US Health Care System
- by Jennifer DeVoe, MD, DPhil, Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland
Policy Positions
Health Care as a Human Right
– international agreements that establish and codify the human right to health care
Universal Health Care and Homelessness
– policy statement of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Single Payer Universal Health Insurance
– explains rationale for a single payer system of health care financing and what it would and would not involve
Proposed Legislation
H.R. 676: United States National Health Insurance Act
(or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) – introduced in the House of Representatives January 24, 2007
Partners in Advocacy
Physicians for a National Health Plan
– Click
here
to
endorse
Physicians’ Proposal for National Health Insurance.
Center on Social and Economic Rights
