UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

“UHC [Universal Health Coverage] means that all individuals and communities receive the health services they need without suffering financial hardship. It includes the full spectrum of essential, quality health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care. UHC enables everyone to access the services that address the most significant causes of disease and death, and ensures that the quality of those services is good enough to improve the health of the people who receive them. Achieving UHC is one of the targets the nations of the world set when adopting the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Countries that progress towards UHC will make progress towards the other health-related targets, and towards the other goals. Good health allows children to learn and adults to earn, helps people escape from poverty, and provides the basis for long-term economic development.” UHCAN

Source: World Health Organization. Factsheet: Universal Health Coverage (UHC). January 24, 2019. Last accessed Jan. 13, 2020. https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/universal-health-coverage-(uhc)

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE ACTION NETWORK-  https://uhcan.org/

Connecticut organizations involved in healthcare activism

  • Connecticut Citizen Action Group – 

  • Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut – 

AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE ACT

The comprehensive health care reform law enacted in March 2010 (sometimes known as ACA, PPACA, or “Obamacare”).

The law has 3 primary goals:

  • Make affordable health insurance available to more people.

     

  • Support innovative medical care delivery methods designed to lower the costs of health care generally.

  • Expanded the Medicare program in some states

SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE (also called Medicare for all)

In a single payer healthcare system, rather than multiple competing health insurance companies, a single public or quasi-public agency takes responsibility for financing healthcare for all residents. 

MORE INFORMATION:

Time article

https://time.com/5785945/health-care-problems-america/

U.S. News on Universal Healthcare 

https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/the-case-for-universal-health-care

Proposals for Universal Healthcare in the U.S.

https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/health-industries/health-research-institute/proposals-for-us-universal-healthcare.html