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United for National Healthcare Upcoming Events!

United for National Healthcare sends an e-mail newsletter at least once a month with articles announcing our current activities and presenting timely commentaries on single payer issues.

To sign up for the newsletter contact: supporter@unitedforhealthcare.org or 360-398-2295.

To keep our community informed about the latest developments in health care reform and single payer health care, we have a full schedule of events in the coming months:

Single Payer Events in May & June 2013

The Washington Health Security Trust:
How to Get to State-based Universal Healthcare

THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013 @ 7:00 PM
St. Luke's Community Health Education Center
3333 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham WA

Speaker: Marcia Stedman of Health Care for All Washington, Chair of the Writers Team and Convener of the HCFA-WA Sno-King Action Team

The presentation outlines how feasible it is to get to universal coverage for all residents in the state of Washington while we wait for Congress to pass an Improved and Expanded Medicare for All.

Mandatory private health insurance, under the federal Affordable Care Act, is NOT universal health care. The Washington Health Security Trust bill complies with the Affordable Care Act and details how state-based universal health care would be organized in Washington State.

Sponsored by United for National Healthcare. For more information (360) 398-2295

Escape Fire:
The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare

THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2013 @ 7:00 PM
St. Luke's Community Health Education Center
3333 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham WA
Admission: FREE

Controlling American healthcare costs is a pressing issue because they are rising so rapidly that they could reach $4.2 trillion dollars in ten years--which is approximately 20% of our domestic product.

Escape Fire examines the forces that make American health care profit- driven rather than patient- drive and the reform movement to bring innovative high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into our high-tech, costly system.

Sponsored by United for National Healthcare. For more information (360) 398-2295

Click here to view a list of recommended reading to enhance your understanding of the current health care issues.

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United for National Healthcare
PO Box 2272
Bellingham WA 98227

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What is Single-Payer Healthcare?

The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $8,160 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 46.3 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.

This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $400 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.

Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public, or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private.

Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. It refers to one entity acting as administrator, or “payer.” In the case of healthcare, a single-payer system would be setup such that one entity—a government run organization—would collect all healthcare fees, and pay out all healthcare costs.

In a single-payer system, all hospitals, doctors, and other healthcare providers would bill one entity for their services. This alone reduces administrative waste greatly, and saves money, which can be used to provide care and insurance to those who currently don’t have it.

Click here to learn more about Single Payer Healthcare

Read Single Payer Healthcare Frequently Asked Questions

Only Insurance Fat Cats Win NEW!

HR 676: One Plan, One Nation

The United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) establishes a unique American national universal health insurance program. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered healthcare system that uses the already existing Medicare program by expanding and improving it to all US residents, and all residents living in US territories.

With over 45-75 million uninsured Americans, and another 50 million who are under-insured, the time has come to change our inefficient and costly non-healthcare system. Learn more about HR676 - the United States National Health Care Act.

New Articles: Reactions and Comments on the Newly Passed Healthcare Reform Bill

With passage of the Healthcare bill comes an avalanche of dialogue. Our work is far from over! Here are some articles of interest to get you started:

What You Need to Know About Health Insurance Reform, by Steelworkers Union President Leo Gerard

Diary of a Wimpy Healthcare Bill by Rose Ann DeMor, director of National Nurses United

False Promises of Reform, statement from Physicians for a National Health Program

Organizing for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System

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