Patient Care, Not Profiteering!

HELP US DEMAND ANSWERS FROM HOSPITALS

 

If you live in Greater Boston or Northern Florida, please add your signature to our petitions demanding transparency about billing and pricing. Hospital CEOs should come clean about how their institutions create needless financial suffering for patients and their families.

Boston: Add your signature.

Northern Florida: Add your signature.

The Right Care Alliance’s Campaign Against Outrageous Medical Bills and Crushing Medical Debt

 

Like millions of other Americans, we in the Right Care Alliance can see that our health care system is costly, wasteful, dysfunctional, and unjust. We believe that it needs radical structural change. The Right Care Alliance is committed to a long-haul fight for those reforms, but while we do that, we also can’t wait: in 2023, the RCA will campaign for immediate relief from medical debt and outrageous health care costs.

. . . read our full statement here.

 

Join Our Fight Against Absurd Hospital Prices and Oppressive Medical Debt

Did you know that U.S. hospitals charge wildly different prices for the same procedure, depending on what type of insurance you have? And did you know that they often charge the highest prices to people with no insurance? And there are 23 million people nationwide with medical debt totaling hundreds of billions of dollars.

That’s not fair, and we can fight for something better.

The Right Care Alliance is a grassroots organization that believes in genuinely universal health care and community control of the health system. If you share those values, please join us as we fight against hospitals’ and insurance companies’ profiteering. Together, we can fight for a world without oppressive medical debt.

Help us build a movement for a health system based on human needs, not the profit motive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burn your bills!

In April, Right Care Alliance activists in Florida gathered for an evening of anger and solidarity. Patients and clinicians shared stories about how they’ve been harmed by profiteering insurance companies and hospitals. The event ended with a symbolic grilling of unjust medical bills. Check out the video on the right-hand side to see us burning the bills.

In Florida and across the country, we can build a movement for a universal, democratically controlled health care system that serves the interests of all of us, not the interests of corporations.

 

 

Join us live at our protest at One Love Cafe!

Posted by Right Care Alliance on Friday, April 21, 2023

Are you currently, previously, or in the near future having to deal with medical debt? If so, this resource made by the RCA’s Letters to the Editor group may be an excellent resource. Also if you are interested in learning more about the extent of the medical debt situation in America, this clearinghouse is an excellent source of information as well.

 

Watch The Price is Right Event

Thanks for all who joined our game of Price is Right Healthcare Edition. If you missed the event, watch the game hosted online on April 12th 2023.  Congrats to the finalists and all of our players!

Tell us your story: How have medical costs and medical debt affected your life?

Has your life been shaped by medical debt or outrageous medical bills? Please share your story with us. Together, we can build a movement to fight for a genuinely equitable, community-controlled health system.

 

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THE CAULDRON OF MEDICAL DEBT

A bandaid won't heal the problem of high medical costs

  • Nearly one-quarter of US adults report that they or another member in their household have halved or skipped prescription doses due to cost.
  • Four in ten have delayed necessary care due to cost, while one-third of Americans have skipped recommended treatment altogether.
  • Banks and private equity are cashing in when patients can’t afford their medical bills. An estimated 12 million Americans are enrolled in payment plans with interests rates which can be as high as 13%.
  • Medical debt deepens the racial health and wealth gaps in the United States. Nearly 28% of Black American households are affected by medical debt, while the rate for non-Hispanic white households is just over 17%.

Direct general inquiries to info@rightcarealliance.org and media inquiries to aaron@rightcarealliance.org.