Health Care for All Campaign
Quality, Affordable Health Care for All
AMSA believes that everyone should have access to quality, affordable health care.
AMSA Supports New Medicare for All Legislation
- Future Physicians Endorse Medicare for All – AMSA Read Press Release
AMSA President Joins Call for Medicare for All at Introduction of Senate Bill with Senator Bernie Sanders
Join AMSA’s Healthcare Week of Action – April 15 – 19 2019
April 15 – Day 1 Action: Learn Facts
- See Facts & Info Links Below
April 16 – Day 2 Action: Share Your Support
- Join Medical Students Call on Congress to Protect Patients, Providers & Taxpayers from Healthcare Profiteers
Sign & Share AMSA’s Support Medicare for All Petition
April 17 – Day 3 Action: Tell Your Senators
- Call Your U.S. Senator at (202) 224-3121 – download Call Tip Sheet
- Find Your U.S. Senators at CongressLookUp.com
- Tweet, Facebook, Email Your U.S. Congress Members via TweetCongress.org
April 18 – Day 4 Action: Tell Your House Rep
- At 1pm(E) Join AMSA Facebook Live @AMSAnational & Learn How Students Can Help Build Support for Medicare for All
- Call Your U.S. House Representative at (202) 224-3121 – download Call Tip Sheet
- Find Your U.S. House Rep. at CongressLookUp.com
- Tweet, Facebook, Email Your U.S. Congress Members via TweetCongress.org
April 19 – Day 5 Action: Think Nationally, Act Locally
- Build Support for Medicare for All in Your Community – Find Local Resolutions Toolkits at Medicare4AllResolutions.org
- Learn About Birddog Training at AMSA-Bird-Dog-Sign-up
Take Action & Support Medicare for All
Learn the Facts:
The U.S. now spends $3.5 trillion a year on health care, that’s over $10,000 per person per year — We can do better!
Medicare for All would:
- Guarantee Quality, Equitable, Sustainable, & Affordable Health Care All
- Relieve employers from the burden of providing health insurance
- Provide coverage for all regardless of workplace changes
- Harness our Federal Government’s Negotiating Power to Bring Down Prices
- Reduce Administrative Waste, Overtreatment & Unnecessary Care
- Cover All Necessary Medical Care & Expand Coverage to Include Dental, Vision & Long-term Care
Learn More:
- AMSA Fact Sheet on Medicare for All Act of 2019 (HR1384)
- Medicare for All: What is it? – AMSA Facebook Live with Melinda St. Louis, Public Citizen Medicare for All Campaign Director
- The Case for Medicare-for-All – New Analysis from Public Citizen
Sanders, 14 Senators Introduce Medicare for All
- Bill text for the Medicare for All Act
- Co-sponsor List
- Summary of the Medicare for All Act
- Summary by title of the Medicare for All Act
- White paper on financing Medicare for All
Jayapal, Dingell and more than 100 Co-Sponsors Introduce Medicare For All Act of 2019
- Read Bill Text
- View Co-sponsor List
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Additional Student Resources
These presentations highlight the major points of the primers that AMSA has written about universal health care. All presentations are annotated, so feel free to use these presentations to educate others. Please give full credit to AMSA, especially if you alter the slides.
- Strategies to Expand Health Care Access
Objective overview of the advantages and disadvantages of various options for increasing health care access. - The Case for Universal Health Care
Moral, economic, and cultural case for universal health care. - Single Payer 101
What is single payer? What are the advantages and potential downfalls? - International Health Care Systems
Overview of the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, U.K. and Canadian systems. - Introduction to Framing
Find out what framing is and how to frame universal health care. - Midwest Academy Strategic Planning and Coalition Building
Introduction to the Midwest Academy strategy chart and the basics of coalition building.
Take Action!
- Bring It to Your Community
Simple projects you can organize to get your school involved. - Lobbying 101
Learn More
The issue of universal health care is complex. AMSA has developed a wide range of reader-friendly materials to help educate you about universal health care.
Why Universal Health Care Is Important
The Case for Universal Health Care
Who Are the Uninsured?
Strategies to Increase Health Care Access
International Health Care Systems
- European Observatory (World Health Organization) country-by-country profiles of each European country’s health care system
- Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP overviews of different health care systems around the world
- WHO’s famous 2000 rankings of international health care systems
- World Health Report 2013: WHO’s research for Universal health Coverage
- Bruce Fried & Laura Gaydos’ textbook, World Health Systems: Challenges and Perspectives
Leadership
View the current Chairs on AMSA’s National Leadership page.