Resources
The Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 with the broad charge to enhance the common good. Its founder, Anna M. Harkness, is among the first women to start a private foundation.
Today, the mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing, equitable health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured.
The Fund carries out this mandate by supporting independent research on health care issues and making grants to improve health care practice and policy. An international program in health policy is designed to stimulate innovative policies and practices in the United States and other industrialized countries.
Wendell Potter
Wendell Potter is a bestselling author and journalist whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and many other media outlets. In addition, he is the founder and president of the Center for Health and Democracy and leads the Lower Out-of-Pockets (LOOP) NOW coalition, which works with policymakers, employers and health benefits consultants to reduce the unsustainably high deductibles and other cost-sharing requirements that burden millions of American families. He also has helped produce four documentaries that delve into various aspects of the U.S. health care system.
KFF
KFF (formerly Kaiser Family Foundation) is the leading health policy organization in the U.S.
As a one-of-a-kind information organization, KFF brings together substantial capabilities in policy research, polling, and journalism in one organization to meet the need for a trusted, independent source of information on national health issues—one with the scope and reach to be a counterweight to health care’s vested interests and a voice for people.
Physicians for a National Health Program
Physicians for a National Health Program is a single-issue organization advocating a universal, comprehensive, single-payer national health program. PNHP has more than 25,000 members, and chapters across the United States.
Since 1988, they’ve advocated for reform in the U.S. health care system. They educate physicians and other health professionals about the benefits of a single-payer system–including fewer administrative costs and affording health insurance for the 30 million Americans who have none.
PNHP is the only national physician organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to implementing a single-payer national health program.
United States of Care
United States of Care’s mission is to ensure that everyone has access to quality, affordable health care regardless of health status, social need or income.
Their goal is to expand access to quality, affordable health care in the near term while paving a path toward durable, people-centered federal policies that achieve our mission.
They envision a health care system that provides people with high-quality, personalized care that meets their unique needs at a price they can afford. In this improved, easy-to-navigate system, people will know they can depend on their health care coverage throughout life’s changes, and get the care they need, when and how they need it.
One Payer States
One Payer States is a nonprofit that fights for efficient and fair universal health care in all states and the entire U.S.A.
Given the principle that health care is a fundamental need for the well-being of individuals, democratic citizens, families, and the general welfare (Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution), One Payer States promotes the establishment of a publicly-funded, privately- and publicly-delivered healthcare system for all. That system must be inclusive, efficient, not-for-profit, politically sustainable, high-quality and comprehensive, in terms of care and delivery.
Contact your legislator to express your support for the Universal – Simple – Affordable solution.
Utah State Legislators https://le.utah.gov/GIS/findDistrict.jsp
Senator Lee https://www.lee.senate.gov
Senator Curtis https://www.curtis.senate.gov
Congressman Moore https://blakemoore.house.gov
Congressman Kennedy https://mikekennedy.house.gov
Congresswoman Maloy https://maloy.house.gov