Health Care Reading/Resource List

Health Care for All Minnesota (HCAMN) References and Resources

(Updated  April 30, 2018)

Healing Health Care:  The Case for a Commonsense Universal Health System

by John Marty

Deadly Spin:  An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out

by Wendell Potter

America’s Bitter Pill:  Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Health Care System

by Steven Brill

Health Care Under the Knife:  Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health

by Howard Waitzkin

Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis – And the People Who Pay the Price

by Jonathan Cohn

 Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

The American Health Care Paradox

by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor

 Healthcare, Guaranteed:  A Simple, Secure Solution for America

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

An American Sickness:  How Healthcare Became Big Business And How You Can Take it Back

by Elizabeth Rosenthal

Obamacare:  What’s in It for Me?   What Everyone Needs to Know About the Affordable Care Act

by Wendell Potter

Putting Our House in Order:  Social Security and Medicare

by George P. Schultz and John B. Shoven

Fix It Healthcare at the Tipping Point

https://fixithealthcare.com   video online, also YouTube

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall 2014

The Commonwealth Fund – Health Policy, Health Reform

Kaiser Family Foundation – Health Policy Research, Analysis, Polling

www.kff.org 

“Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues”

 Consumers Union

Health Care Value Hub – Research Brief No. 11, April 2016

Rethinking Consumerism in Healthcare Benefit Design
https://consumersunion.org/topic/health-care/

 Beyond the Affordable Care Act:  An Economic Analysis of a Unified System of Health Care for MN

Amy Lange RN, MS, CNM    March 2012

        https://growthandjustice.org/publication/BeyondACA.pdf

Minnesota Department of Health

Health Equity/Public Health, Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Commissioner

https://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/che/

Land Stewardship Project – Organizing for Change – Affordable Health Care for All

https://landstewardshipproject.org

Physicians for a National Health Plan Minnesota

www.pnhpminnesota.org

TakeActionMinnesota – Health Care Team

www.takeactionminnesota.org  @TakeActionMinnesota