The Utah Cares Act promotes patients interests ahead of corporate profits. Read the Act at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to the campaign to place the Act on the ballot. Universal healthcare won’t happen without your help.
Joseph Q Jarvis MD MSPH
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Public health physician and advocate for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all, Chair-Utah Cares Political Issue Committee www.utahcares.health
“The health care system should serve the needs of the patient, first and foremost. The needs of the health insurance company should never be a consideration.”https://open.substack.com/pub/josephquinnjarvis961218/p/out-of-network-and-other-health-insurance?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios
“Americans spend far more per person on health care than comparable countries while experiencing worse outcomes. The real waste, fraud, and abuse is private insurance bureaucracy and fraudulently inflated drug costs.” www.wvgazettemail.com/opinion/op_e... Learn more and DONATEat www.utahcares.health
Paula Kaufman: Where socialism, healthcare lead to a MAGA double-standard (Opinion)
Earlier this month, U.S. second lady Usha Vance gave birth to her and husband Vice President JD Vance's fourth child at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Walter Reed is
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“American taxpayers are providing Medicaid benefits to employees of Amazon and Walmart.”https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/taxpayers-spend-about-2-billion-annually?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios The Utah Cares Act stops corporate welfare. Read the Act AND DONATE: www.utahcares.health
Utah Cares - Single Payer Health Care for Utah
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“We should resolve now that the health of this Nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all its citizens deserves the help of all the Nation.” Harry S Truman- open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
LBJ signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965. Join me in celebrating better, simpler care financed for all American seniors by DONATING to place similar legislation for ALL on the ballot. Learn more at www.utahcares.health
Find a link to purchase my book here: www.utahcares.health AND learn about the Utah Cares Act AND DONATE to the campaign to put better, simpler care financed fairly for all on the ballot!
The Utah Cares Act provides for better, simpler care financed fairly for all. No deductible, co-pay, co-insurance, or premium. Learn more and donate to the campaign at www.utahcares.health www.facebook.com/share/v/1DTY...
Utah Cares - Single Payer Health Care for Utah
This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...
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Universal care is not socialism; it is the sensible policy choice when the societal objective is to support the individual pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness through the promotion of the general welfare. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
Universal Care: How to Do Health Care Business
Switzerland has perennially been in the top five wealthiest nations measured by per capita GDP.
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Find links to the book “For the Hurt of My People” and the film “Healing US” at www.utahcares.health. There you can also DONATE to the cause of better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all. Healthcare reform won’t happen without you.
All over the world wealthy nations have figured out how to regulate the price of medical and surgical goods and services-just not in the US. We wrote negotiated price control into the Utah Cares Act-now we need your donations to get it onto the ballot. Read more and DONATE at www.utahcares.health
American politics will be a fight about health care until we get this right, or until the wrongs of our health system bury our country. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
America Should Be Better Than Its Health Care
My wife and I are on holiday staying near the Lauterbrunnen valley (see first photo) where we undertook a guided tour yesterday visiting, among various Sehenswürdigkeiten, Trummel Falls (2nd photo), A...
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Find a discussion about this map in the documentary film “Healing US”available for free viewing through a link findable on the Utah Cares website: www.utahcares.health While on the website please make a small donation to the cause of better simpler healthcare financed fairly for all. Thanks.
Swiss health insurers or sickness funds are very unlike American health insurance. They are highly regulated and cannot deny, delay, or otherwise game the health financing of their beneficiaries. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
Swiss Health Care: Better Regulations
Nuno Sa is from Portugal but has lived for ten years in Switzerland.
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“I also felt sad thinking about the shortcomings of our healthcare system in the U.S. — how even a basic doctor’s visit comes with not knowing how much you’ll have to pay to get the care you need. Americans must choose between health or financial stability.” www.huffpost.com/entry/i-ende...
I Ended Up In The ER During A Vacation In Spain. Here’s What Shocked Me The Most.
“I braced myself, thinking back to past experiences in American hospitals.”
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Among wealthy nations only in the US does the cost of illness or injury care lead to bankruptcy. The Utah Cares Act puts a stop to this barbaric happenstance. You can help put an end to medical debt.Make your contribution to this cause at www.utahcares.health This won’t happen without you! DONATE!!!
The cure for bad health insurance is The Utah Cares Act. But that cure can’t be implemented without your donations. Stop what you are doing right now and go to www.utahcares.health and read the Act, then DONATE!!!
Employer based funding of health benefits receives tax support through credits. Switching to straight up public funding of healthcare will reduce the overall cost and free employers from this albatross. More info at www.utahcares.health
So politics in the US remains a fight over healthcare. You must choose a side in this fight. Your vote will count this year. Your donations will matter, whether small or large. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
American politics is a fight over health care
Jonathan Chait published an “Ideas” piece on July 15, 2026 in the Atlantic Monthly that said one thing, only, that I can agree with: “American politics is, to a very substantial degree, a fight over h...
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The US health insurance business model is an unsustainable failure. The Utah Cares Act puts an end to this stinking mess. Learn more and DONATE to the campaign to reform American health care delivery at www.utahcares.health. open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
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This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...
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Stop being held hostage by the medical industrial complex. Choose to donate to the campaign for better simpler healthcare financed fairly for all. Let’s eliminate deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance. Learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.health. Success in Utah = success across the country.
Objections to health reform based on a fear of ‘socialism’ are silly.The Utah Cares Act reforms how to originate health care funding and how to spend those funds, saving $16 B/yr out of $40 B/yr being spent-better simpler care financed fairly for all. www.utahcares.health DONATE to this campaign!
"On the Prior Authority podcast, Kimberly Soenen explains to Dan Bammes how health insurance companies make money — and it's not the way you might think. Listen to Prior Authority and find out more about UtahCares at www.UtahCares.health — contribute to UtahCares." 1drv.ms/v/c/0b7dd82a...
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This citizen-driven bill is free from corporate and special interest influence, aiming to deliver comprehensive healthcare at no cost at the point of service. Our objective is to put this to a vote, a...
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Most Americans have already discovered that the medical industrial complex actually does not ‘care’ about patients. So let’s and unite in our determination to change how healthcare business is done. This will be the defining campaign of our time-learn more and donate at www.utahcares.health.
No one asks whether a patient is R or D. High US healthcare costs hit everybody hard. Better, simpler care financed fairly for all can be arranged. Learn more at www.utahcares.health where you can DONATE $5 for real reform.
A new episode of Prior Authority, the Utah Cares podcast, is available. Give a listen and then learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.health open.spotify.com/episode/5gCP...
Rise up-be anxiously engaged in a good cause. Better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all was a goal for original conservatives from Teddy Roosevelt to Ike. Make it your goal now. More info, including a link to the book, at www.utahcares.health
The health insurance industry in the US is unlike European sickness funds-it’s organizing principles are anti-patient. Our only way forward is to rid ourselves of this useless business model. www.utahcares.health for more info.
Polling by Axios-Ipsos found that health care costs — and in particular that of prescription drugs — will be a “defining election issue” in the upcoming midterm elections. www.deseret.com/politics/202... #bettersimplercare #takebackourhealthcare
When medical needs and financial realities collide
New Utah poll reveals widespread struggle as healthcare expenses force tough choices.
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In any given year about 20% of people in the US experience a major illness or injury costing more than $5000 and often more than $20,000, leading to medical debt. Medical debt would never happen if the Utah Cares Act were to pass. www.utahcares.health