Ideas for Change in America

A single payer, Medicare for All national health insurance program could save over $400 billion annually now wasted on overhead and bureaucracy, enough to cover all 47 million uninsured Americans.  It would allow patients to go to the private doctor or hospital ...

The California OneCare Campaign (www.californiaonecare.org) will be launched in March, 2010 to support SB 810, the single payer for California legislation twice passed by the California State Legislature, only to be vetoed by Governor Schwarzenegger. This is the most...

A universal, government-managed, single-payer health insurance system. Why?  46 million (and counting) Americans without health insurance coverage.  Health insurance corporations denying people the coverage they need.  Pharmaceutical corporations pric...

· Every year, for over a decade, 56,300 Americans become infected with HIV.   · 21% of HIV+ Americans do not know their HIV status.   · Up to 25% of HIV+ Americans are not in care that could save their lives, and help them to avoid tran...

The rare disease patient is the orphan of health care systems. There are close to 30 million people in the USA with rare diseases (a disease affecting fewer than 200,000 people).  There are close to 100 million caregivers for the millions of kids and grown-ups ...

  Hello, my idea is for a website that would perform an incredible customer service and meet a growing societal need. I am seeking support on a website titled  accessibletravelforall.org  or handicappedaccessible.org (I currently own the rights to dom...

Unite ALL Americans under ONE very large, comprehensive, reliable and and well-protected not-for-profit coverage pool under one set of non-discrimiatory rules. We would save $400 Billion and at least 45,000 innocent lives every year.

You don’t think about a young person being imprisoned in a nursing home.  Few people realize that as a result of a car accident, a head injury or disabling birth condition they could end up being forced to live in a nursing home. People with disabilities...

It is important to give and let all children have free medical care, free surgery, free medication and free health care, free dentist and of any kind  of support and care to bring up a growing generation being healthy and in good condition. It will benefit ...

National/annual Lime Aid outdoor concert on the DC lawn each May, which is mental health awareness month (a cause that touches 100% of us because we all have a brain!)  Patterned after Live Aid 1985 (or Farm Aid) - This national concert would be televised on MTV...

Health insurance is the only insurance that can be used to pay for every expense we incur for the subject covered.  Automobile insurance isn't used to pay for an oil change and home owner's insurance isn't used to buy new carpet.  Having health insurance th...

It works in all the ohter Industrialized country and it can work here.

The process by which we obtain health insurance in the United States is thoroughly broken. Costs are rising needlessly, personal incentives for maintaining one's health are nullified by convoluted payment structures, and coverage is unnecessarily tied to irrelevant f...

The Cesarean delivery is the one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States and one of the leading causes of hospitalization.  The World Health Organization recommends a national C-section rate of around 5-10%; above which, the dangers and injur...

I am writing to say that all of congress should stop getting taxpayer funded health care until all citizens in this country receive the same. Taxpayers subsidize all in congress, half who are millionaires, and that is not right. They argue that a public option and so...