Release: Community Health Centers Save Lives and Money
WASHINGTON, May 11 – Non-emergency visits to hospital emergency rooms cost taxpayers billions of dollars a year, money that could be saved by expanding community health centers and other primary health care services, according to testimony at a Senate hearing today. A new Government Accountability Office study conservatively estimated that 8 percent of emergency room visits are not urgent. In
HELP Subcommittee to Discuss Emergency Room Care
Will Release GAO Report on Preventing Unnecessary Use of ERs WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, May 11 at 10:00AM, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging will convene a hearing to discuss ways to reduce the use of emergency departments for non-urgent health care services. HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Subcommittee Chairman Bernie
Release: Single-Payer, Medicare-for-All Legislation Introduced
WASHINGTON, May 10 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced today that he introduced legislation to provide health care for every American through a Medicare-for-all type single-payer system. Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) filed a companion bill in the House to provide better care for more patients at less cost by eliminating the middle-man role played by private insurance companies that
Sanders and McDermott to Introduce Labor-Backed Single Payer, Medicare-for-All Health Care Bill
WASHINGTON, May 9 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) will hold a press conference on Tuesday to announce the introduction of single-payer health care bills in the Senate and House. They will be joined by leaders of the AFL-CIO and other labor organizations supporting the measure. Who: Sen. Bernie Sanders; Rep. Jim McDermott; Arlene Baker-Holt, executive
Release: $3 Million More in Back Pay for Vermont Workers
Vermont Service Center Employees Win in Labor Settlement WASHINGTON, May 3 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today welcomed a U.S. Labor Department ruling that will result in an additional $2.9 million in back wages for federal contract workers in St. Albans and Essex Junction. The ruling affects more than 700 contract workers employed by Stanley Inc. and subcontractors at
