Health Care for All Campaign

 Quality, Affordable Health Care for All

AMSA believes that everyone should have access to quality, affordable health care, and that access to comprehensive health services must be recognized and protected as a basic human right, and supports a publicly and progressively financed, privately delivered federal single payer system of high quality, affordable health care for all persons. In its absence, we support health care reform that expands comprehensive coverage and access for all persons living in the United States.

AMSA Encourages You to Lift Your Voice as a Future-Physician & AMSA Member!

Link to your congress members, state legislators, and AMSA Advocacy Toolkit

AMSA Supports Medicare for All

• 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
  – Watch comments from Perry Tsai, MD, PhD, AMSA President 
  – Watch full press conference
• Join AMSA’s Call on Congress to Protect Patients, Providers & Taxpayers from Healthcare Profiteers
  Sign & Share AMSA’s Support Medicare for All Petition

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!

• 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

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

Take Action to Support Medicare for All

Call on Congress to Support Medicare for All

• Join Medical Students Call on Congress to Protect Patients, Providers & Taxpayers from Healthcare Profiteers
  Sign & Share AMSA’s Support Medicare for All Petition
• Call Your Congress Members at (202) 224-3121 – download Call Tip Sheet
• Find Both Your U.S. Senators and Your U.S. House Representative at CongressLookUp.com
• Tweet, Facebook, Email Your U.S. Congress Members via TweetCongress.org

Think Nationally, Act Locally

• Build Support for Medicare for All in Your Community – visit www.medicare4allresolutions
  – Take Action, Attend a Community Event Near You
  – Find Local Resolutions Toolkits

Learn More About Medicare for All

Download AMSA’s Health Care Week of Action – April 2019 – Tool & Resources to Support Medicare for All

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.

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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

Leadership
View the current Chairs on AMSA’s National Leadership page.