The next GROUP MEETING is on Tuesday November 20th at 7:00 PM at the Southwest Boulevard Family Healthcare Clinic. The clinic is a metallic building with colorful sculpture yard art and is located on the corner of Soutwest Boulevard and Rainbow. We will be in the meeting hall on the northwest corner of the building. Parking is available behind the clinic. Click here for a map.
MAINSTREAM DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES’ PROPOSALS FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
A comparison of presidential healthcare positions from Professor Len Rodberg of PNHP and the City University of New York. Read more HERE
Welcome!
Heartland Healthcare for All is a group of community members, doctors, medical students, nurses, other health professionals, and victims of the current health care system advocating for a sane solution to the crisis of healthcare access in the United States.
In December of 1948 the world came together through the United Nations to announce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Recognizing the inherent dignity of all members of the human family, Article 25 of that declaration states that access to medical care is a basic human right. In 2005, nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were without health insurance (1). Furthermore, studies show that approximately 18,000 individuals die each year because they lack health insurance (2) and therefore have difficulties accessing basic medical care.
Every industrialized nation besides the United States has some form of socially guaranteed access to healthcare. Comparison between the United States and similar nations demonstrates that Americans pay significantly more per capita for healthcare than other peoples yet as a whole we experience worse health outcomes (3). We have reached a crisis point, where millions of people are suffering for lack of basic medical care in the richest country in the world. Heartland Healthcare for All advocates a single national healthcare plan to cover all residents of the United States. A single-payer universal healthcare plan would be significantly more efficient, humane, and just. Please join us in our struggle to make high quality healthcare accessible for all.
A new report from the American
Family Physician describes how the medicare costs are 51% higher for those who were uninsured for the years prior to their eligibility
of medicare
Take Action! Support Healthcare for children of lower income familes. Click here to see what you can do now
Approximately 89.6 million Americans--more than one out of three people under
65 years of age--were uninsured at some point during 2006-2007, according to
a new report from Families USA. Read more.
Watch Heartland Healthcare For All screening of Michael Moore's "Sicko" at the Screenland Theatre. August 16, 2007.Watch video clip
National Health Insurance Bill HR 676 
Don McCanne Quote of the Day