Healthcare For All NH

Many thanks to the New Hampshire Bulletin for publishing this excellent piece by two awesome Healthcare advocates in our state. The state of our Healthcare system in NH isn't doing great especially for seniors using "Medicare DIS-Advantage" health plans.

Watch out for unwelcome surprises this Medicare open enrollment period • New Hampshire Bulletin This fall, countless New Hampshire seniors will be reexamining their Medicare coverage options for 2025 during the open enrollment period, which runs from Oct. 15th to Dec. 7.

This National Organizing call with the Center for Popular Democracy on Thursday May 23rd at 7pm will feature Ro Khanna on the topic of medical debt- Register at the link below-

Monthly National Organizing Call · CPD Action Monthly National Organizing Call

"Medicaid enrollment changes from March 2023 to the most recent data available as of mid-April 2024, New Hampshire had the sixth-highest cumulative percentage decrease in enrollment, with a 26.7 percent decline."

Granite Staters Continue to be Impacted by End of Continuous Medicaid Enrollment One Year Later - New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute Medicaid enrollment declined 26.7 percent after a key policy expired, but total enrollment remains higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Check out this event tonight about a new NH Healthcare Survey Project for 2024. Find out more and register here-

NH Healthcare Survey Kick-Off Event · Rights & Democracy Join us and other healthcare advocates across the state for an exciting Kick-Off Event for the New Hampshire Healthcare Survey. We'll have a short presentation about the status of healthcare in NH and why we are facilitating this survey and we'll also walk you through the survey folks can fill out t...

This Friday, February 9th, at 9:45am, a state resolution urging our federal delegation to support a universal healthcare program. Please sign in to support this resolution. You can even add testimony. OR you can also attend and testify at the hearing in person.
https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/remotetestimony/default.aspx

The national Care Over Cost campaign is getting some traction, press, and upcoming changes.

‘Make money by denying care’: new US rules aim to curb use of approval by private health insurances Patients, advocates and researchers welcome regulations but argue rules don’t go nearly far enough to tackle scale of problem

ACTION ALERT- Send an email to your Senators telling them to crack down on Medicare profiteering!

Tell Your Senators: Crack Down on Medicare Profiteering! - People's Action Deep Canvassing: The Proven Method to Change Hearts and Minds! Do you want to have compassionate, non-judgmental conversations across lines of difference? We can show you how.

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Jen needs infusions to live. She spent years in bed due to extreme pain after breast cancer and a radical mastectomy with skin graphing went bad.

Jenn Still Needs Our Help! United Healthcare Won't Put #CareOverCost "We all want to live with quality and with dignity and we can't do that when private for-profit corporations like United Healthcare rip off us."Care Over Cos...

Do you have Medical Debt? You can help make change by sharing your story. The US Senate is planning to have a hearing on this topic and they want to hear from patients about their experiences with this.

Medical Patients, Share Your Story | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions

We are so sad to hear that we lost Ady Barkan yesterday. He has been a tireless champion for changing our healthcare system, even while struggling with ALS. Now, it's up to all of us to continue this important work. RIP Ady and wishing the best to your beautiful family.

A creative and funny way to explain our for profit healthcare system by comparing it to how it would look if the fire department operated in the same way.

This is absurd. So is our current healthcare system. Pass the New York Health Act! Imagine your house is on fire, and the firefighters refuse to help you because you don't have insurance. Except it’s not your house, it’s your health.Tell yo...