“And it is how this nation can heal itself from the divisive and increasingly violent ugliness into which national discourse has deteriorated.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

The Utah Cares Act will guarantee better, simpler health financed fairly for all. Read about it and DONATE to join the campaign at www.utahcares.health !!!!

“In 1999, approximately 71% of non-elderly workers were offered health benefits by their employer. By 2024, the offer rate was down to 54% for firms with three or more workers.” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

Yet again the nation is facing steeply rising health care costs. The Utah Cares Act (read it at www.utahcares.com) is the way forward to better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Make a donation so that we can all make this happen.

“To know that if I’m sick, needed healthcare will be paid for, that is freedom. Not true in the US.”https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EBklyksgbco

The U.S. health care system is uniquely dysfunctional. A different approach is entirely possible—if we have the will to boldly govern the health care system in the interests of patients, clinicians, and taxpayers. That means directly tackling prices. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

Hospitals are no longer charitable facilities. Public hospitals have declined sharply, while giant for-profit systems, such as HCA Healthcare and CommonSpirit, have expanded nationwide. In half of U.S. metro areas, just one or two systems dominate the market. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

“The US system is drowning in private-sector bloat and bureaucracy. .The result is staggering inefficiency: roughly one in four dollars spent on health insurance goes to something other than care, like marketing, billing, profits, or middlemen.” open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

We pay the most and get the least. The United States spends far more on health care than any other wealthy country yet achieves worse outcomes, less access, and a more demoralized workforce. open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

“Truly the political parties have failed us. Partisanship produces poor candidates who run divisive, ugly political races, with winners who are poorly prepared to govern.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

“One in three Americans has medical debt, and more than half worry they’ll fall into debt any time they use the health care system. That fear changes behavior: people delay.”https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/aca-health-care-insurance-us-jetelina?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios

The Utah Cares Act will eliminate out of pocket costs at the point of service. Read about it at www.utahcares.health. DONATE to support suing the State of Utah to place the Act on the ballot.

Health insurance in 2024 profits: Centene: $3.2 billion (+590% since 2014) UnitedHealth Group: $32.2 billion (+214% since 2014) Elevance: $9.1 billion (+78% since 2014) Humana: $2.6 billion (+8.3% since 2014) Molina: $1.18 billion (+780% since 2014) open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

“69% of Americans say they are concerned about affording their health insurance. 70% say they worry about paying for a medical emergency, and 65% paying for prescriptions or other medications. www.scrippsnews.com/health/premi...

ACA subsidies are not the solution for high health care costs. The Utah Cares Act will bring better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Read about it at www.utahcares.health and DONATE to the campaign we have started to put the Act on the ballot.

“The New Testament has it right, for when we heal “the lame, the maimed, the blind, the mute, and many others,” when we visit the sick and injured, even the least of them, we will be invited into a new kingdom, a regime on the right hand of God.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

no one should need to start a GoFundMe account to pay for needed health care. The Utah Cares Act will provide for better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Donate to the campaign to make that happen at www.utahcares.health. kslsports.com/ncaa/byu-foo...

“We already have the most profitable health-care system in the world and therefore the least patient-centered and most expensive health-care delivery among all developed nations—and one that is the least oriented to rural America.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

The American health insurance business model is the most wasteful, useless way to finance healthcare ever invented. The Utah Cares Act will replace health insurance with better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Read about it and DONATE at www.utahcares.health.

Across the States: Utah’s Single-Payer Effort, and Colorado’s Momentum open.spotify.com/episode/795a...

Stop beating around the health reform bush. Single payer health reform is the way forward in the US. Support the Utah Cares Act with a donation at www.utahcares.health. We will use donations to sue the State of Utah in order to place the Act on the ballot in 2026.

“Americans have the most profitable health-care system in the world, yet American patients are least likely in the first world to benefit from proven mortality-reducing medical interventions.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Six in ten adults who say they can afford their bills with money left over nonetheless say they are “very” or “somewhat worried” about being able to afford unexpected medical bills (62%) or the cost of health care services (60%) for themselves and their family.” www.kff.org/health-costs...

“We have allowed the business of medicine to so deviate our health system from its principle mission that health insurance business practices deny care to millions of Americans and prematurely kill 200,000 of our fellow citizens annually.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Why is All Saints Day scarier than Halloween? Because Nov 1 is open enrollment-health insurance price increases become a horrifying reality. The Utah Cares Act will eliminate this annual budget massacre. Read about it and DONATE to help us sue Utah to place it on the ballot at www.utahcares.health

“Private insurers extract value rather than control costs or provide access to necessary and affordable care. .families face financial ruin no matter whatthey pick during open enrollment.”https://open.substack.com/pub/healthcareuncovered/p/coverage-without-care-the-cruel-math?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios

70% of Democrats, 62% of Republicans, and 59% of Independents blame health insurance companies for medical debt. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Health insurance: they charge a premium, require co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles before they pay for care, the fine print allows them to leave you in the lurch. The Utah Cares Act (read it at www.utahcares.health) every patient in the driver’s seat. DONATE to the campaign to make it happen!

Seventy-six percent of voters said they agreed with the statement: “We need to switch to a different system of health insurance where people can change jobs or become self-employed and not have to worry about losing their health insurance.” thehill.com/policy/healt...

Health insurance policy rules, fine print never inure to the benefit of the patient. In contrast, read the Utah Cares Act—it’s a health system redesign intended to optimize patient care and financial security. Find it at www.utahcares.health. DONATE to support a lawsuit to put the Act on the ballot.

“What people need is optimal health care, not coverage. Health insurance, as it is done in the US, comes between us and the health care we need.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Stop asking permission to get the care your family needs. Join Utah Cares in kicking health insurance to the national curb. We need your help to sue the state of Utah to put single payer health care on the ballot. DONATE at www.utahcares.health

“Figuring out the right healthcare strategy is a huge drain. The time we have to spend trying to navigate this health-insurance fiasco is time we don’t spend with our clients. Health insurance is the largest expense after wages.” www.wsj.com/health/healt...

“Healthcare is a diseased sector of our economy where the prices are intentionally obscured and the customer is never right.” www.wsj.com/opinion/a-ho...

It’s time for all of us to say “NO” to the health insurance business model. Go to www.utahcares.health and read the Utah Cares Act. We propose better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Help us make the legal fight to get the Act on the ballot—DONATE!!! www.linkedin.com/posts/sallyn...

Half measures in health reform will always fail. The Utah Cares Act is full-on what’s needed for patients-meaning all of us. Read the Act at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to the legal defense fund so we can sue Utah to place the Act on the ballot.

“This matters for employers because healthcare is now your fastest-growing expense, but the structure makes it nearly impossible to manage. You can't optimize what you can't see.” www.linkedin.com/posts/tsang1...

The growth in healthcare costs per capita, adjusted for demographic effects, has frequently outpaced the growth in GDP per capita over the past few years www.pgpf.org/article/heal...

The Utah Cares Act will put an end to people going without care because of cost. DONATE to build a legal defense fund so that we can sue the state of Utah to get Utah Cares onto the ballot www.utahcares.health youtu.be/E8_6qv3a14g

The cost of everything else has increased much more slowly. The Utah Cares Act puts an end to this unsustainable rapid rate of health expenditure increase. Read it at www.utahcares.health and DONATE to the legal defense fund being amassed to sue the state of Utah.

“No one ever buys an appendectomy because it is on sale.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Deductibles have risen twice as fast as premiums. These rising costs are unsustainable. Implementation of the Utah Cares Act ends health care cost escalation. Read about it and DONATE to the legal defense fund at www.utahcares.health

Host a showing of “Healing US” in your community as a fundraiser for your single payer movement. See the film yourself at: youtu.be/oovXwK0vaGM Donate to the legal defense fund of the Utah Cares Act at www.utahcares.health

“In medicine, I have witnessed the collapse of ideals I once held dear: the primacy of patient care; the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship; the integrity of evidence; the nobility of a profession bound by ethics rather than economics.”https://www.medpagetoday.com

The Utah Cares Act will implement communal or monopsony health care purchasing on behalf of all Utahns and no or minimal out of pocket costs. Read more at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to the legal defense fund so that we can sue Utah government to get on the ballot.

“Rural hospitals across the US are under threat. Nearly 200 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and one-third, more than 700 hospitals, are at risk of shutting their doors.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“The place where we lost the life of Danny Desnoyers, like the thousands of similar places of premature mortality due to the dereliction of our health system, will serve as a monument to rid our nation of the horror of for-profit health insurance.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Fair health financing matters—support the Utah Cares Act www.utahcares.health “ Medicaid expansion was associated with significantly improved 5-year cancer survival for patients in rural and high-poverty areas compared to non-expansion states.” www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyon...

Time to cancel health insurance and simply pay for health care without the middleman. The Utah Cares Act will organize better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. Read the Act and supporting studies at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to support the campaign to put it to a vote.

“When you’re healthy, you might see insurance as a safety net. In reality, we’re systematically excluded..It’s a failure built into the very structure of American health care.” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...