We’ve Got You Covered
Welcome to Public Citizen’s “We’ve Got You Covered,” a weekly tipsheet designed to highlight key news about Medicare for All and call out the biggest health care industry lies and falsehoods about universal health care. This tipsheet is sent out to reporters, editors and columnists every Monday. For more information please contact Mike Stankiewicz, mstankiewicz@citizen.org, (202) 588-7779.
SEPTEMBER 2020
- SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 – ‘For-Profit Health Care Devalues Black Lives;’ Patients Charged Thousands for COVID-19 Tests; 1-in-2 Americans Fear Medical Bankruptcy
AUGUST 2020
- AUGUST 31, 2020 – U.S. Chambers’ Tone-Deaf Campaign; 12 Million Lose Insurance; Unions Members Hit By Increased Premiums
- AUGUST 24, 2020 – Hospitals Back to Suing Patients; Molina CEO Pay Ratio is 232-to-1; More Findings of Health Racial Disparities
- AUGUST 17, 2020 – Unnecessary Coronavirus Deaths; Insurers Face Lawsuits, Congressional Inquiries; Black Americans Twice as Likely to Die from Coronavirus
- AUGUST 10, 2020 – Providers Profiteering With Surprise Coronavirus Medical Bills; Half of Rural Hospital ICUs Are at Capacity; Haven Healthcare on Its Last Breath
- AUGUST 3, 2020 – Frontline Workers, Patients Decry Corporate Health Care; Doctors Want Medicaid Expansion
JULY 2020
- JULY 27, 2020 – UnitedHealth Caves on Coronavirus Benefits; 2021 Insurer Premiums See Double-Digits; Two Local Resolutions Pass
- JULY 20, 2020 – Trump Country Supports Medicare for All; Insurers, Trump Cronies Profit From Pandemic
- JULY 13, 2020 – Up to 126,000 Could Lose Contraceptive Coverage; Pandemic Racial Disparities; Medicare for All Resolution Passes in New Hampshire
JUNE 2020
- JUNE 29, 2020 – Insurers’ Free Coronavirus Care Waivers Expire July 1; Racial Disparities in Health Care; Trump Continues Attack on ACA
- MARCH 23, 2020 – Coronavirus Fact Sheet; Industry Propaganda; Support for Sick Leave, Guaranteed Health Care
- JUNE 15, 2020 – Bailed-Out CEOs Swim in Cash While Workers Are Furloughed; Rural Health and Global Budgets; U.S. House Virtual Panel
- JUNE 8, 2020 – Coalition of Black Communities Demands Medicare for All; Union Benefits Don’t Last Forever; Big Pharma Bankrolls Opposition to Affordable Vaccine
- JUNE 1, 2020 – Public Citizen Pressures Insurers; Virtual Panel This Week; 41 Million Unemployed; More Polling
MAY 2020
- MAY 26, 2020 – Hospital Association Should Leave Corporate Propaganda Group; Haven Healthcare Fails to Disrupt; 38.6 Million Now Unemployed
- MAY 18, 2020 – Right-Wing Groups Oppose Health Care Expansion; 43 Million Could Lose Coverage; Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act Introduced; Resolution Efforts
- MAY 11, 2020 – New Orleans Backs Medicare for All; Loopholes Riddle Health Insurers’ Coronavirus Benefits; 33 Million Unemployed; ACA Dismantlement Continues
- MAY 4, 2020 – Insurers Caught Red-Handed; Skipping COVID-19 Treatment; Medicare Crisis Proposal; Nearly 70% Support Medicare for All
APRIL 2020
- APRIL 27, 2020 – Medicare Crisis Proposal; Polls, Polls, Polls; Americans Make Difficult Financial Decisions
- APRIL 20, 2020 – Insurers Rake In Profits; 22 Million Uninsured; Marrying for Health Insurance
- APRIL 13, 2020 – Trump Focuses on Propping Up Fraud; Petition to Enroll the Unemployed in Medicare; 2021 Premiums
- APRIL 6, 2020 – Greedy Billionaires and Industry Titans; Unemployment Skyrockets; Support for Medicare for All Jumps
MARCH 2020
- MARCH 30, 2020 – Preventable Teen Death; Separating Health Insurance From Employment; Dubious New Record
- MARCH 23, 2020 – Coronavirus Fact Sheet; Industry Propaganda; Support for Sick Leave, Guaranteed Health Care
- MARCH 16, 2020 – GOP Has Change of Heart? Insurers Seek to Profit Under Pandemic; Economists Tout Savings; Rural Resolutions
- MARCH 9, 2020 – Study Finds Higher Wages, More Jobs Under Medicare for All; Federal Failure in Coronavirus Response; The Consequences of Uninsured Children
- MARCH 2, 2020 – Medicare for All Is Necessary to Address Racial Disparity in Health Care; 20 Million Turn to Crowdfunding; Corporate-Speak
FEBRUARY 2020
- FEBRUARY 25, 2020 – Yale: Medicare for All Would Save $450 Billion Annually; More Industry Propaganda; South Carolina Union Support; Polling Fact Sheet
- FEBRUARY 17, 2020 – Jailed Over Medical Bills; Pennsylvanians Support Medicare for All; End of Surprise Billing Nears
- FEBRUARY 10, 2020 – Higher Wages for Workers; Trump’s Inadequate Insulin Plan; ‘Retrospective Denial’ Scam
- FEBRUARY 3, 2020 – Iowa Stats; Union Endorsement; Harvard Study on Unaffordable Doctor Visits; Local Resolution Effort in Connecticut
JANUARY 2020
- JANUARY 27, 2020 – Employees Have No Real Choices; Opioid Crisis; More Hospitals Shutter
- JANUARY 21, 2020 – Physicians’ Group Endorsement; Savings After Just One Year; Utah’s Jet-Setting Drug Program; Industry’s ‘Choice’ Is False PR
- JANUARY 13, 2020 – Rescuing Rural Hospitals; $600 Billion Annually in Administrative Savings; Cost of Doing Nothing; Iowa Stats
- JANUARY 6, 2020 – Pharma Prices Already Up in 2020; U.S. Health Care Costs Compared to Other Countries; Focus on Health Care, Not War
DECEMBER 2019
- DECEMBER 19, 2019 – Congresswoman, Los Angeles Small Businesses, City Council: ‘Now is the Time for Medicare for All’
- DECEMBER 16, 2019 – Fourth House Hearing; GoFundMe Pushes Cancer Fundraising ‘Tips’; Americans Compelled to Take Fish Medication
NOVEMBER 2019
- NOVEMBER 25, 2019 – Economists Tout Medicare for All Cost Savings; Advocates Fight Back Against Corporate Talking Points; New Polling
- NOVEMBER 18, 2019 – 34 Million Say They Have Lost Loved Ones Under the Current System; Georgia Under Medicare for All; Mental Health Services Are Hard to Find
- NOVEMBER 11, 2019 – Devastating Stories From Our For-Profit System; Resolutions Passed in More Cities; New State-Based Single-Payer Bills
- NOVEMBER 4, 2019 – Medicare for All Means Biggest Take-Home Raise in Generations; Week of Action Roundup; Americans Don’t Like Employers Being in Control
OCTOBER 2019
- OCTOBER 28, 2019 – Pressley, Omar Speak at Virtual Town Hall; Tenet Funnels $630K to Undermine Medicare for All; Why a Public Option Won’t Work
- OCTOBER 21, 2019 – Cops Tried to Stop Petition Delivery; Tampa Supports Medicare for All; A Misleading Study
- OCTOBER 14, 2019 – 2 Million-Plus Signatures; Massachusetts, Texas Unions Join the Fight; Medicare for All Activists’ Convention
SEPTEMBER 2019
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 – New Surprise Billing Coalition; Private Insurance Costs Hit $20K; GM Responds to Pressure But Still Controls Workers’ Health Care.
- SEPTEMBER 23, 2019 – Megacorporations Play Games With Workers’ Insurance. Medicare for All Would Fix That.
- SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 – Insurers, Pharma Launch Major Propaganda Campaign; Most Small Businesses Support Medicare for All
- SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 – Two Billboards Over Texas; House Co-Sponsors Reach 119; GoFundMe is NOT Health Care