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Community health champion
[ Spring 2008 ] Florida's First Surgeon General Takes her Message on the Road In 2007, more than a fifth of Florida's approximately 18 million residents lacked health insurance, and 23 percent were obese, according to America's Health Rankings, an…
Champion social and economic equality
If you want to narrow health inequities, be bold. The most practical action you can take is not narrow incrementalism, but to spark wide-reaching initiatives to reduce U.S. socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities while also promoting public health.…
Support a Health Rights movement
Forty-four years after Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, egregious racial and ethnic inequities persist in health status and health care. As vigorously documented by the Institute of Medicine’s sentinel 2002 report, Unequal Treatment, the life-expectancy…
Desegregate our healthcare system
If we as a nation are truly committed to putting our legacy of racial segregation behind us, one place to begin is our health care system. While the reasons for lower health status for racial and ethnic minorities…
Extend a safety net to deserving immigrant families
Reforming both U.S. immigration law and our health care system have been key domestic issues in the 2008 presidential campaign. Yet there is little recognition of the fact that these two problems overlap. Immigrants in this country and…
NPR/Kaiser/Harvard survey: The public on requiring individuals to have health insurance
For immediate release: Friday, February 29, 2008 Boston, MA -- This survey conducted jointly by NPR and public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health examines how the public views different…
Poll finds Americans split by political party over whether socialized medicine better or worse than current system
Seventy percent of Republicans think socialized medicine would make things worse and 70% of Democrats think it would make things better For immediate release: Thursday, February 14, 2008 During the course of the presidential nomination campaign, some candidates’…
Presidential candidates' platforms reflect sharp differences in perspectives of Democratic and Republican primary voters on health care problems
Analysis Draws on Data from New Kaiser/Harvard Survey of Likely Voters in Early Primary States, as Well as 10 Recent National Polls For immediate release: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 With the next wave of presidential primary elections quickly…
Who are the uninsured? (They could be you)
Who are the Uninsured? (They Could be You) People who lack health insurance come from all social and economic groups. Of the approximately 500,000 uninsured “nonelderly” in Massachusetts (those who, being under age 65, are not yet eligible…
Health care for (almost) everyone: Key elements of the law
Key Elements of the Law “An act to provide access to affordable, quality, accountable health care.” Individual mandate For the first time in the United States, the law requires that anyone over 18 have “minimum creditable coverage” by…