E I N O
is shorthand for this website and project
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OUR MISSION: Project EINO educates the public, encouraging state movements towards an equitable health care system guaranteeing universal access to care, to be accomplished by support of grassroots organizing. "Universal" is meant seriously and precisely, plans to reduce the number of uninsured by by 50 or 75 or even 90% are not plans for Universal Health Care --even though they will frequently make such a claim. Universal health care means All Americans or all residents of a given state will be included in the new system of access to high quality care, so that there will no longer be ANY persons uninsured, nor underinsured.
STRATEGIC KEY: The Right
to Health Care
We encourage all state UHC organizations to recognize that empowering the underprivileged in our society (ethnic minorities, low-income workers etc.) is key to our success. These sectors of society will become energetic proponents of this movement when we demonstrate our commitment to the "Right to Health Care" for all Americans, similar to the "Right to Education" on which American parents now depend. Some version of Single Payer health care would seem to fill the bill most clearly, most efficiently and with the most stability. We believe that calling for the commitment to the "Right to Health Care" should be primary and that arguments about how to achieve that goal should proceed thereafter. |
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This week's quote (Feb 08)
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The health systems of Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany are frequently cited as potential models for a reformed US health system. All three countries offer their citizens a wide choice of health insurers -none of which is a government-run health plan. Yet in all three countries full community rating is de rigueur, rather than pricing according to the risk of medical costs for a given individual.
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Last week's quote (Feb 04)
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This kind of risk evaluation -what’s called "medical underwriting"- is fundamental to the insurance business. But it is precisely what all the new reform plans will ban. Congress is effectively making private insurers unnecessary, yet continuing to insist that we can’t do without them.
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