SJA Health Care for All Minnesota

The St. Joan of Arc chapter of Health Care for All Minnesota (SJA-HCAM) believes healthcare is an essential human need. Unequal access to healthcare is an injustice. It is critical to remove the profit motive from healthcare.*

• Total health care spending in the US is two to three times the per capita spending of other developed countries, while population health outcomes lag behind.
• Almost one-third of every health care dollar in the U.S. is spent on non-health care activities, such as billing, coding, marketing, pre-authorizations, denials, executive pay, shareholder return, etc., due to our complex, wasteful, inefficient multi-payer system.
• Health care costs are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the U.S.
• Two-thirds of health spending is already taxpayer-funded through Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, the VHA, DOD, etc., yet millions of Americans remain uninsured or underinsured.
• One in four people in the U.S. don’t get the care they need; approximately 37,000 deaths per year are attributed to inability to access either treatment or preventive care due to cost. 

We believe a financial system where premiums are based on ability to pay is the only way we can provide comprehensive, affordable, high-quality healthcare for every person. Our ultimate goal is to achieve a single-payer healthcare financing system for Minnesota.

* The above description adapted from hca-mn.org.

Join us:
We are dedicated to promoting affordable high-quality healthcare for every Minnesotan through advocacy, education and community organizing.

• SJA-HCAM is building parish support for the single-payer Minnesota Health Plan (MHP) and working with the MHP Legislative Caucus on other bills based on single-payer principles. 
• To join us, contact Julie Madden and she will forward your interest to the SJA-HCAM chair. 
• Watch for educational events, advocacy opportunities, or speakers at St. Joan’s, or in partnership with Health Care for All Minnesota.