LEGISLATION


Do choices at the ballot box make life & death differences for us?

Yes. Reforms work. See below.


Single Payer/Expanded and Improved Medicare For All

CURRENT SP FEDERAL LEGISLATION – 118th Congress, 2023-2024

FEDERAL LEGISLATION to Combat Misleading Advertising by Corporate “Medicare”

(Overview of the problem being addressed: So-called “Medicare Advantage”–from PNHP ProtectMedicare.Net)

PREVIOUS Federal Legislation, 116th/ 117th Congress, 2019-2020/ 2021-2022

STATE-BASED ADVOCACY

Green states have pending legislation or advocacy infrastructure for State-based Universal Health Care (SBUHC). Link to the One Payer States website to see state profiles.

THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS:

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COMPARING LIFE and DEATH in OUR POLICY CHOICES

Princeton Professor Paul Starr‘s article in the American Prospect (12.8.2023), “The Life-and-Death Cost of [Political Choices],” describes the 64-year-long “natural experiment” involving 50 states with opposing policies. The contrasts concern public health, taxes, the stinginess or generosity of public benefits, unionization, gun safety, and many other things that affect [our] well-being. The effect is shown most dramatically by life expectancy patterns by state according to their legislative choices over time.

The data from the experiment support the view that policies designed to save lives–do save lives. What does that mean for the reasoning–and the consciences–of policy-makers who think reform efforts are futile? Read the article.

How Vermont's New Position Fights Abuses of Privatization 

Health Care Reform for the US