Health Care for All Minnesota (HCA-MN)
@hca-mn.bsky.social
Health Care for All Minnesota (HCA-MN) is dedicated to promoting comprehensive, affordable, high-quality health care for every Minnesotan through Single Payer Healthcare Reform advocacy, education, and community organizing.
Almost one-third of rural hospitals in the United States are considered financially vulnerable. Today, roughly 720 rural hospitals across the country are at risk of closure, including 294 that face an immediate threat. (cont.) feminist.org/news/one-yea...
One Year After Medicaid Cuts, Rural Hospitals Face Growing Crisis - Feminist Majority Foundation
It’s been nearly a year since the federal Medicaid cuts took effect, and rural hospitals are feeling the strain. Almost one-third of rural hospitals in the United States are considered financially vu...
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More! Of! This!! Where else can we leave these nuggets of truth? #PeacefulResistance #SpeakTruth #Healthcare #PatientsOverProfits
The MN House will hold a hearing on the Patient-Centered Care (PCC) bill tomorrow, Wed, March 18 at 7PM. This is an important step that would move MN toward a more streamlined, patient-centered health care system. In-person: Minnesota State Capitol - Room 120 Time: Wednesday, March 18 at 7:00 PM
⚠️❄️All MN House committee hearings scheduled for Monday, March 16th have been postponed. We will keep you informed on rescheduled health-related hearings, including the Patient-Centered Care bill. Stay safe, Minnesota! #Minnesota #weather #blizzard #MNleg
👏Thank you to everyone that joined us for our 2026 Health Care Lobby Day on the Hill! A huge shout out to our featured speakers, @senjohnmarty.bsky.social , State Senator Jen McEwen, and State Representative Robert Bierman. #MNLeg #mnhealthplan #SinglePayer #Medicaid
📬If you attending our LOBBY DAY ON THE HILL on Tuesday, March 10th, check your email and register for one of our Training Events! Missed registering? Watch for details on a virtual Health Care Lobbying opportunity next week! Click "Follow" and like this post to be notified. #MNleg #healthcare
📝STUDENT WRITING COMPETITION Have your Letter to the Editor or Commentary in support of a Single Payer Healthcare bill published in your local paper! Full details and Submission Form: www.surveymonkey.com/r/6T8HT8H Questions? Please reach out to staff@hca-mn.org
🩺👩⚕️Alert for Healthcare Workers: Wear your Scrubs and White Coats TOMORROW, Saturday, February 7th at 11:30am at the Whipple Bldg to stand in solidarity with our neighbors. We demand humane treatment for All! All healthcare professionals welcome! #healthcare #minnesota #humanity
Health Care Advocacy Organizations Respond to Killing of Alex Pretti Media Contacts: Health Care for All MN: anne@annejonesmn.com Physicians for a National Health Program – MN: davedvorak@mac.com Students for a National Health Program – UMN-TC: mirandaharrismartinez@gmail.com #Minnesota
If you’re up for watching a Sunday show, I’ll be on CBS Sunday Morning, through which I discussed with Erin Moriarty my research findings on the scope and impact of health insurance coverage barriers in the U.S., which deepen administrative burden and inequity. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/thi...
This week on "Sunday Morning" (Jan. 11)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
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Overconsumption is a myth. Folks don't enjoy medical procedures and won't waste their leisure time getting unnecessary procedures. Like, no one will their waste PTO on a second colonoscopy.😝 Lack of care due to financial barriers is a much bigger issue than the potential for overuse of services.
CD6 COMMUNITY OPEN FORUM on current policies, their impact and what can be done. Show up and be heard! #affordability
Yes! We have a costly, inefficient, Swiss-cheese system that most people hate. Though Japan‘s social insurance with universal coverage isn’t what we advocate for ( #singlepayer), we appreciate @thebulwark.com opening up the space for dialogue about the necessary changes we need and deserve!
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 8mo agoRepublicans refused to renew ACA subsidies. Premiums will spike, and millions will lose coverage. Meanwhile in Japan, universal health care is taken for granted—and it works. @citizencohn.bsky.social shows what a better system looks like, and what America is choosing to give up.
Thank Sen. Tina Smith (MN) for signing on as cosponsor of the Medicare for All Act!! 🙏🏻 Like & Share this post 📲 Call her office at (202) 224-5641 and leave a message 💻 Visit her website to leave a comment of thanks for joining our movement: www.smith.senate.gov/share-your-opinion/ #medicareforall
”we’re gonna do a healthcare” 😳 This would be funny if American patients weren’t forced to choose between bankruptcy and death. A plan to cut costs and improve health outcomes is called #improvedmedicareforall The bills are written. We don’t need to wait two weeks—Do it now!
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8mo ago🤷🏼 ⏰ Trump’s Heath care plan is coming “very soon” y’all (From Home of the Brave)
@mcuban.bsky.social Let me answer your questions as you’ve asked them: Any hospitals receiving federal funds must meet negotiated rates. Period. TBD We already do. We’d save ~15% Negotiated Rx & care costs REMOVE denials 🤣 Already do!! Minimized admin overhead + improved FFS rates = Better!
Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates. What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ? Who in the USA gov runs the program? R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
“We don’t have to keep living like this.” 🤔 How do we actually enact a single payer healthcare reform to achieve affordable care with better outcomes? Speak up! Until the people of this country join together & demand change, we will keep living (and dying) like this. #medicareforall #ushealthcare
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 8mo agoHealth insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits. Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Make your tax-deductible gift TODAY to help us with our mission to reform healthcare for everyBODY!! Givemn.org/organization/hca-mn
"even a 1% artificial price increase through these internal transfers could significantly reduce the rebates insurers owe consumers under the medical loss ratio rule. That’s billions of dollars that patients, taxpayers and employers are entitled to but that never leave the company’s bank account"
New Study Reveals UnitedHealth’s Hidden Hand
Research suggests UnitedHealth may be running a shell game — one that lets insurers flout regulations and obscure the harmful consequences of their vertical integration strategies.
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🪦You pay your monthly premium, yet your health insurance company... ...denies the care prescribed by your doctor. ...requires a preauthorization. ...limits your prescription options. This is what we refer to as the "Healthcare Mafia". It feels like a grift, because IT IS.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
Join @pnhp.bsky.social on Nov 20th to discuss removing the waste from our Medicaid program! This online event is open to ALL. Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
👏Kudos to our friend, Vanessa Dayton! The Star Tribune printed her OpEd challenging people to think about the way our health system should function. Read it at replica.startribune.com/infinity/art... We challenging YOU to join the fight and send in your own OpEd or Letter to the Editor!
SHOUT your support for the physicians standing up for their patients' rights!! Stop by your local Allina Clinic this Wednesday, November 5th to give them a high five and a big thank you! #unionstrong @seiu.org @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social
Open enrollment for the ACA Marketplace started today. Woof. This is rough, Folks. (It’s almost like they should, I dunno, extend the subsidies…or better yet, #MedicareForAll) The rates below are for a middle-aged Minnesotan
October has been a nightmare. 🧟♀️🧟♂️
