Health Care News

HJM: The Burdens of Prior Authorization

March 24, 2024

From the Health Justice Monitor, current news in context from Jim Kahn, Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and Don McCanne, a retired family practitioner . . . read more »

March 2024 Newsletter

March 21, 2024

Want to be on our email list? Sign up here! Health care for all: Through the states Did you know that we have a law on the books that would start the process of creating . . . read more »

Support SBUHCA so states can lead: Sign the petition!

March 12, 2024

Did you know that we passed legislation in 2021 that would start the process of creating a universal health care system for Maine? We did—thanks in no small part to your advocacy! And Gov. Mills . . . read more »

‘Not a Lefty McLefty issue’

March 7, 2024

On a recent episode of Knock Knock Hi!, Dr. Glaucomflecken and Lady Glaucomflecken talk with Rep. Katie Porter about health care in the U.S., Medicare for All, Big Insurance, private equity, primary care, how insurance . . . read more »

HJM: Reversing the Corporate Practice of Medicine

February 26, 2024

From the Health Justice Monitor, current news in context from Jim Kahn, Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and Don McCanne, a retired family practitioner . . . read more »

Letters: Physicians know our system must change

February 14, 2024

Scott Schiff-Slater, a family physician in central Maine, knows how the system works and did all the “right” things, and was still billed hundreds of dollars more than expected for a medical procedure. “…although I . . . read more »

Reflecting on the passing year and looking ahead to the new

December 31, 2023

As we move through the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, we look back on what we’ve accomplished together and what has happened in the movement for health care for all, in Maine . . . read more »

HJM: British Nat’l Health Service Crippled by Privatization and Austerity Funding

December 26, 2023

From the Health Justice Monitor, current news in context from Jim Kahn, Emeritus Professor of Health Policy, Epidemiology, and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. A NY Times opinion video lays it . . . read more »

Maine Gun Safety Coalition

December 18, 2023

Gun violence is a public health issue—take action in the new year Maine AllCare has signed on as a supporting organization of the Maine Gun Safety Coalition‘s 2024 campaign for four pieces of common sense . . . read more »

Health Care Hope for the Holidays: SBUHCA gains momentum

December 13, 2023

A national health care system that includes everyone and puts people over profits is Maine AllCare’s ultimate goal, but given the perennial gridlock in Congress action at the state level is one of the most . . . read more »