E I N O
is shorthand for this website and project
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This website supports state organizations working at the grassroots for universal health care (UHC). We
do not include organizations working on incremental health reforms, that work is
vital but differs fundamentally from UHC work.
OUR MISSION: Project EINO educates the public, encouraging state movement towards an equitable health care system guaranteeing universal access to care, to be accomplished by support of grassroots organizing and empowerment of those communities most at-risk in the current health care system. A focus on the 'Right to Health Care' is recommended as the best strategy to empower these communities.
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 movements success. These massive 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. |
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This weeks' quote (Aug 25):
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Private Medicare Part D pays significantly higher prices for prescription drugs than does the Medicaid program. In the case of the six million dual eligible beneficiaries, the Medicare Part D insurers paid $3.7 billion more in 2006 and 2007 to purchase the top 100 drugs for dual eligible beneficiaries than they would have paid if they had access to the lower Medicaid drug prices. This increase in costs represents a windfall to drug manufacturers.
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Last week's quote (Aug 15)
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Consider someone with a colonoscopic finding of several large adenomatous polyps. Under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which was recently signed into law health insurance companies could still refuse to sell the this person an individual policy or could quadruple his/her premiums. If they are enrolled in an employer-sponsored group health plan, insurers could raise the rates for everyone in the group.
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