United for National Healthcare

Organizing for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System

Welcome to United for National Healthcare!

We are a Bellingham, Washington group organizing and advocating for a National Single-Payer Healthcare System. We believe healthcare for all is a human right and not a privilege based on one's ability to pay.

On this site we strive to keep you up to date with what is happening locally in United for National Healthcare as well as current issues on the nationwide movement to achieve national single-payer healthcare!
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"Elimination of U.S.-style private insurance has been a prerequisite
to the achievement of universal healthcare in every other industrialized country in the world."

~ Nick Skala, Physicians for a National Health Program

UNHC Membership Meeting: Thur. May 27 @ 7pm

We have a lot of work to do! Bring your ideas and energy and join our discussion on what needs to be done to make healthcare for all a reality in the USA.

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 7:00 pm
Laborer's Hall (downstairs on left side of building)
1700 N State, Bellingham WA

Meeting Agenda:

• More information on June 7th Donna Smith event
• Discussion on future events: Human Race, Fund Raising dinner, freeway bannering, OctoberFest)

For more information, contact Aileen Satushek at 360.398.2295

June 7, 2010 ~ Mark Your Calendars to Hear:

Donna Smith
Featured in Michael Moore's movie, SiCKO

Speaker for California Nurses Association

Monday June 7, 2010
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
St. Lukes Community Health Education Center
3333 Squalicum Pkwy, Bellingham WA

Donna Smith is a featured patient in the movie SiCKO, and like many of us,
she is fed up with the state of the health care system in the United States.

Since her appearance in the movie, Donna has founded American Patients for Universal Health Care (APUHC), and has been very active in fighting for free and equal health care for everyone.

She tours the country and speaks about how we need national single payer health care to achieve a just and sustainable health care system.

Get Involved!

Click here to download a membership application and become a member of Bellingham's United for National Healthcare today or contact us to find out how you can help make Single Payer Healthcare for All a reality.

Form a United for Healthcare partner group in your WA area! Contact Us to learn how

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

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.

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Show your support for HR676 Single Payer Healthcare with this bright orange shirt designed by Healthcare NOW!. Makes a great gift too! Available in S, M, L for a $15 donation, and XL for an $18 donation. Contact us today to get yours.

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United for National Health Care • P.O. Box 2272 Bellingham, WA 98227
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