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Joseph Q. Jarvis, M.D., MSPH
joseph.jarvis@msn.com
Utah Healthcare Initiative:
Website: http://www.utahpatientspac.com/
Blog: http://utahpatientspac.blogspot.com/
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Clark Newhall, M.D., J.D.
Clark Newhall is a physician, attorney and activist from Salt Lake City. As an emergency physician, he often treats people cast off by the US health care system because they lack unsurance. As an attorney, he represents people injured by the US health system, who can no longer obtain health care because of their 'uninsurable' status' resulting from malpractice-caused injuries. As an activist, he founded HealthJustice, which widely promoted Medicare For All through TV ads featuring Mike Farrell (BJ Hunicutt in TV M*A*S*H) talking with doctors and nurses. In his spare time, Clark enjoys taunting health unsurance executives and politicians with the immoral illogic of supporting a profit-driven health care system. He is the author of "Health Care Famine" and other articles explaining the basics of single payer Medicare For All.
Utah State News
By Kirsten Stewart | The Salt Lake Tribune
Joseph Jarvis' decades-long push for a statewide health cooperative — a publicly funded, nonprofit health insurance trust to cover every Utahn for all medically necessary care — has been a non-starter in conservative Utah. Chances of it gaining traction grew slimmer with passage of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul, which Jarvis says “sucked all the oxygen out of the room.”
Clark Newhall, M.D., J.D. | Letters | Ogden Standard-Examiner
Your Editorial Board has the right idea--'grab control of medicare'--but the exactly wrong method. Instead of raising the age for eligibility for Medicare to 67 as your editorial suggests, we should lower it--to 0. That's right--0. Everyone should be covered by Medicare from birth.
By Joseph Jarvis | Salt Lake City Tribune
Not so long ago, a number of Democratic members of the U.S. House were running a bill entitled "The States' Right to Innovate in Healthcare Act." I loved that bill. It laid out mechanisms for any state to negotiate its way out of federal rules and regulations en route to formulating its own comprehensive reform of health care delivery and financing. Now that Obamacare is the law of the land, states that can do better need the right more than ever to innovate in health care.
By Clark Newhall | Salt Lake Tribune It has long been apparent that there was no consensus among progressives on the best way to achieve universal health care. From the very beginning, MoveOn and the labor movement gave lip service (sometimes) to single-payer ideas, but put their money behind whatever the president proposed.