There is NO justification for hospital detentions they are gross violation of human rights www.citizen.digital/opinion-blog...

Access to maternity services has gone backwards under Kenya's SHA reforms with teenage mothers routinely detained because they no longer can access FREE services www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrYu...

An exclusive YouGov poll, commissioned by Best for Britain finds: 62% of Brits say that Brexit has been more of a failure. Many blame Boris Johnson for it. They associate mostly anger and frustration with Brexit. Full research here: https://bit.ly/4mv524J

Smart politics by US Democrats to make access to healthcare the number one issue in battling Trump and the Republicans www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Another shocking video of new mothers and babies detained in a Kenyan hospital. Giving everyone FREE SHA membership will end this human rights abuse www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQy6...

It's great to see all these articles emphasising the importance of domestic financing to achieve UHC and even better that nobody is advocating a return to user fees. How times change. guardian.ng/features/hea...

Gordon Brown is right - health taxes are a great way to finance UHC reforms www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

Unlike the US, Vietnam is making rapid progress towards UHC vietnam.vnanet.vn/english/tin-...

Gosh this is interesting. Karnataka State in India is thinking of launching a UK-style tax financed universal health system www.deccanherald.com/india/karnat...

Will Oregon win the race to publicly-financed universal health coverage in the US? www.healthcare-brew.com/stories/2025...

Well done Kenya re-committing to universal FREE primary health care www.kenyans.co.ke/news/115095-...

Tajikistan is making good progress towards publicly-financed UHC www.who.int/europe/news/...

Fingers crossed www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bravo Thailand extending its UHC benefit package to include hormone therapy transgenderfeed.com/2025/09/05/t...

Well done Zimbabwe gearing up to launch universal free primary health care without insurance contributions iharare.com/cabinet-to-r...

Modi's health insurance reforms in India are not covering enough people (only 30% of population) and are not covering enough services as they exclude PHC and medicines www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/...

Is Oregon winning the race to publicly-financed UHC in the US? www.peoplesworld.org/article/oreg...

Trump's Big Bill represents another big step AWAY from UHC in America pnhp.org/news/trumps-...

Unlike the US, Vietnam is making great progress towards UHC en.vietnamplus.vn/80-years-of-...

As is so often the case, Slovakia's rising out-of-pocket health spending is being driven by paying for outpatient medicines www.who.int/europe/publi...

Go Xavier Becerra campaigning on a UHC platform to become Governor of California www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Publicly financed UHC coming soon to Oregon USA? wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/univ...

If Zimbabwe's National Health Insurance Scheme is dependent on voluntary contributions it is doomed to fail www.zimlive.com/zimbabwe-fas...

Great, Ireland's Slaintecare reforms are seeing doctors and patients switching to the public system resulting in health insurance becoming more expensive www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/slai...

Ivory Coast is another country learning that poor people tend not to purchase voluntary health insurance. Only PUBLIC financing can achieve UHC www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/he...

@drtedros.who.int nails it: "The most efficient and equitable source of health financing is the national budget" www.who.int/director-gen...

Great speech by @drtedros.who.int at the Africa Sovereignty Summit calling for DOMESTIC public financing to fund African health systems www.who.int/director-gen...

Wouldn't it be better for Nigeria's health system to be funded publicly rather than rely on random generosity to release patients detained in hospital guardian.ng/news/nigeria...

Universal Health Coverage is associated with better cancer outcomes www.urotoday.com/categories-m...

Quite simply Nepal should ditch its health insurance system and switch to predominantly tax financing like in Thailand myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/informa...

Nepal is another country showing the folly of trying to make poor people pay health insurance contributions and this is terrible advice by the American author to soldier on rather than switch to a tax-based system myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/informa...

The best way the UK can support Kenya's UHC reforms is showing that the ONLY way to reach FULL population coverage is to use TAX financing to cover the informal sector health.go.ke/kenya-and-uk...

Kenya, like everywhere in the world (including the US) shows that poor people without formal jobs will not pay for health insurance nation.africa/kenya/health...

Kenya's UHC reforms are doomed if they are based on people in the informal sector talking significant health insurance contributions nation.africa/kenya/weekly...

Universal health check ups planned for Vietnam's PHC-led UHC reforms www.vietnam.vn/en/dua-kham-...

Gangster-style health financing in Nigeria where medical hostages are common punchng.com/from-patient...

Poor mothers don't get "stuck" in these Kenyan hospitals - they are kept hostage there until their families (or wellwishers) pay for their release. How can this be normalised? www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ev...

Extraordinary video showing the ongoing scandal of new mothers and babies detained in Kenyan hospitals because they can't pay their bills www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ev...

The great Paul Krugman on America's coming health care apocalypse paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-coming...

This is sound advice: Nepal should definitely consider adopting Thailand's world-famous publicly-financed UHC model thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/npi-re...

Thailand extends it's UHC benefit package once again - a shining example for other countries to follow www.nationthailand.com/health-welln...

What better way for progressive states to stick it to Trump and the Republicans than to launch publicly-financed UHC? www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/...

Ethiopia is reporting 95% health coverage rate - must say this looks highly suspect to me tvbrics.com/en/news/ethi...

UHC coming to Antigua? antiguaobserver.com/govt-targets...

Nigeria's claims to be a UHC leader in Africa lack credibility whilst it is the lowest public health spender (as a share of GDP) on the continent radionigeria.gov.ng/2025/07/18/n...

The World Bank set out to transform health care for the poor in Africa. It drove patients deeper into poverty. www.icij.org/investigatio...

Charging user fees for primary care services is just plain stupid. It won't raise much, will exclude the poor and result in delayed and more costly treatment www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Great to see Democrats trying to push through state-level UHC in the US www.fox10tv.com/video/2025/0...

Publicly-financed UHC coming to Maine? www.mainepublic.org/health/2025-...

Will Trump's chaos precipitate UHC in the United States. Fingers crossed: sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/edit...