Joseph Q Jarvis MD MSPH
@drjqjarvis.bsky.social
Public health physician and advocate for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all, Chair-Utah Cares Political Issue Committee www.utahcares.health
“But rationing is a reality of every country’s health care system, including ours, which is obvious to anybody who has ever battled insurance companies for approvals of treatments or consultations—or simply waited many months to see a specialist.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump’s Assault on Health Care, Seen From a Country That Does Health Care Better
Japan is a showcase for universal health care, and what we’re losing in GOP attacks on the Affordable Care Act.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“But rationing is a reality of every country’s health care system, including ours, which is obvious to anybody who has ever battled insurance companies for approvals of treatments or consultations—or simply waited many months to see a specialist.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
2026 is an election year. Utahns have been denied a chance to vote on better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. This year choose to build the single payer campaign. Learn more at www.utahcares.health
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2026 is an election year. Utahns have been denied a chance to vote on better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. This year choose to build the single payer campaign. Learn more at www.utahcares.health
Merry Christmas. Better, simpler health care financed fairly for all is possible if we donate to and support single payer campaigns. Learn more and DONATE: www.utahcares.health
December 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Merry Christmas. Better, simpler health care financed fairly for all is possible if we donate to and support single payer campaigns. Learn more and DONATE: www.utahcares.health
Wake up America! Better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all can’t be gift wrapped, but will be a hard fought victory! Learn more at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to the campaign!
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Wake up America! Better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all can’t be gift wrapped, but will be a hard fought victory! Learn more at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE to the campaign!
US patients will likely be paying more out of pocket for needed care in 2026. Had enough? Then do something. The Utah Cares Act will recreate health care business by providing better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Learn more AND DONATE at www.utahcares.health
December 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
US patients will likely be paying more out of pocket for needed care in 2026. Had enough? Then do something. The Utah Cares Act will recreate health care business by providing better, simpler care financed fairly for all. Learn more AND DONATE at www.utahcares.health
The Utah Cares Act will improve healthcare, simplify health decisions, while financing health care fairly for all. Learn more and DONATE to the cause at www.utahcares.health
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The Utah Cares Act will improve healthcare, simplify health decisions, while financing health care fairly for all. Learn more and DONATE to the cause at www.utahcares.health
Overhead, red tape, bureaucratic delays: have you had enough? Join the movement for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. Learn more at www.utahcares.health and DONATE as a Christmas gift to yourself and your family.
December 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Overhead, red tape, bureaucratic delays: have you had enough? Join the movement for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. Learn more at www.utahcares.health and DONATE as a Christmas gift to yourself and your family.
Tired of the wallet biopsy? Join the movement for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE as a Christmas gift to yourself and your family.
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Tired of the wallet biopsy? Join the movement for better, simpler health care financed fairly for all at www.utahcares.health AND DONATE as a Christmas gift to yourself and your family.
The business of US healthcare is killing American patients. Join the movement to provide better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. Learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.health
December 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The business of US healthcare is killing American patients. Join the movement to provide better, simpler health care financed fairly for all. Learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.health
In America you will find that the hospitals are not seeking to meet the needs of the local population with high quality, low cost care. “One cannot maximize profits and optimize care.”https://open.substack.com/pub/josephquinnjarvis961218/p/vertigo-and-trauma-care-follow-the?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios
December 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In America you will find that the hospitals are not seeking to meet the needs of the local population with high quality, low cost care. “One cannot maximize profits and optimize care.”https://open.substack.com/pub/josephquinnjarvis961218/p/vertigo-and-trauma-care-follow-the?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios
AI on health reform: “move to solutions wherein we all take care of each other – wherein we all get the care we need at a price each of us can afford. The market is not and cannot ever be crafted to accomplish that. Single payer would do precisely that.” www.healthjusticemonitor.org/will-the-mar...
Will the Market Cure Our Health Care System? - Health Justice Monitor
What does AI tell us about the competing theories of free-marketism and a leading government role in paying for health care? An exploration of the philosophies of Kenneth Arrow, Milton Friedman, Elon ...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
AI on health reform: “move to solutions wherein we all take care of each other – wherein we all get the care we need at a price each of us can afford. The market is not and cannot ever be crafted to accomplish that. Single payer would do precisely that.” www.healthjusticemonitor.org/will-the-mar...
How to persuade moderate voters to support health reform with the goal of providing better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all? Here are my thoughts given in Minnesota some months ago. Learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.
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Dr. Joe Jarvis, a Public Health Physician (Video #9)
YouTube video by Health Care for All Minnesota
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December 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How to persuade moderate voters to support health reform with the goal of providing better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all? Here are my thoughts given in Minnesota some months ago. Learn more and DONATE at www.utahcares.
youtu.be/S2dnlu7LATw
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“What we need is single-payer universal health care, not more permutations of the current profit-based insurance system we have currently in the U.S.” www.sltrib.com/opinion/lett...
Letter: If making America healthy is the goal, the profit-based insurance system must go
Letter: If making America healthy is the goal, the profit-based insurance system must go
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December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“What we need is single-payer universal health care, not more permutations of the current profit-based insurance system we have currently in the U.S.” www.sltrib.com/opinion/lett...
The Utah Cares Act would implement monopsony purchasing for pharmaceuticals and eliminate drug price gouging. We are building a legal defense fund for the Act-necessary to overcome barriers to ballot access. DONATE at www.utahcares.health
December 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Utah Cares Act would implement monopsony purchasing for pharmaceuticals and eliminate drug price gouging. We are building a legal defense fund for the Act-necessary to overcome barriers to ballot access. DONATE at www.utahcares.health
“Next year, the out-of-pocket maximum will soar to $21,200 and premiums will surge above $27,000 for family plans – meaning that most medical care can’t be shopped for (let alone covered) with an HSA.” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
KFF Health News: Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt.
Noam Levey at KFF Health News explains what actually happens to families living under the HSA–high-deductible model the GOP wants to revive.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Next year, the out-of-pocket maximum will soar to $21,200 and premiums will surge above $27,000 for family plans – meaning that most medical care can’t be shopped for (let alone covered) with an HSA.” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...
“(Health) insurance through a job is becoming increasingly unaffordable for employers and their employees.” www.sltrib.com/news/2025/12...
Utah families are paying more for health insurance — and Congress can’t agree on a fix
Premiums for Utah families with insurance through an employer increased more than the national average.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“(Health) insurance through a job is becoming increasingly unaffordable for employers and their employees.” www.sltrib.com/news/2025/12...
American health care costs are higher and rise faster than anywhere else on the planet. Stop putting yourself and your family at risk. The Utah Cares Act illustrates how health care can be transformed everywhere in the US. Read about it at www.utahcares.health and DONATE!!
December 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
American health care costs are higher and rise faster than anywhere else on the planet. Stop putting yourself and your family at risk. The Utah Cares Act illustrates how health care can be transformed everywhere in the US. Read about it at www.utahcares.health and DONATE!!
“About six in ten adults say they are either “very” or “somewhat worried” about being able to afford the cost of health care services (62%) or unexpected medical bills (61%) for themselves and their families.” www.kff.org/health-costs...
Americans’ Challenges with Health Care Costs | KFF
This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that many Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic ...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“About six in ten adults say they are either “very” or “somewhat worried” about being able to afford the cost of health care services (62%) or unexpected medical bills (61%) for themselves and their families.” www.kff.org/health-costs...
Health insurance-red tape at a high price. The Utah Cares Act will overthrow the insurance bureaucracy and replace it with universally simplified financing saving billions per year. Read about it and donate to make it happen at www.utahcares.health.
December 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Health insurance-red tape at a high price. The Utah Cares Act will overthrow the insurance bureaucracy and replace it with universally simplified financing saving billions per year. Read about it and donate to make it happen at www.utahcares.health.
It is well past time that we Americans stopped putting up with mediocre health system performance at a high cost. There is a better way. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
US Health Care: High Cost, Poor Performance
The West Health-Gallup Center on Health Care in America recently published survey data about how Americans view their own health system.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
It is well past time that we Americans stopped putting up with mediocre health system performance at a high cost. There is a better way. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
Christmas gift suggestion:
The book takes a strong and important look at the flaws in the American health care system and the harm it causes. The writing is approachable, well written. Judge, 29th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Available at: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
The book takes a strong and important look at the flaws in the American health care system and the harm it causes. The writing is approachable, well written. Judge, 29th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Available at: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Christmas gift suggestion:
The book takes a strong and important look at the flaws in the American health care system and the harm it causes. The writing is approachable, well written. Judge, 29th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Available at: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
The book takes a strong and important look at the flaws in the American health care system and the harm it causes. The writing is approachable, well written. Judge, 29th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards
Available at: shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
Stop pretending that the rise in health care costs is sustainable. What we can’t afford is business as usual in American healthcare. The Utah Cares Act is the way forward. Read it and DONATE to the litigation fund needed to get it on the ballot at www.utahcares.health
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Stop pretending that the rise in health care costs is sustainable. What we can’t afford is business as usual in American healthcare. The Utah Cares Act is the way forward. Read it and DONATE to the litigation fund needed to get it on the ballot at www.utahcares.health
When health care delivery is accountable to investors, profits matter more than patients. The Utah Cares Act (read it and supporting economic studies at www.utahcares.health) will orient health system accountability around the needs of patients. DONATE for better access and quality at a lower cost.
December 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
When health care delivery is accountable to investors, profits matter more than patients. The Utah Cares Act (read it and supporting economic studies at www.utahcares.health) will orient health system accountability around the needs of patients. DONATE for better access and quality at a lower cost.
“This wide-ranging crisis for both consumers and businesses underlines the brokenness of the U.S. health care system: When neither patients nor investors are happy, does it work at all?”https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5629211/health-care-broken-costs-united-health-investors
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
“This wide-ranging crisis for both consumers and businesses underlines the brokenness of the U.S. health care system: When neither patients nor investors are happy, does it work at all?”https://www.npr.org/2025/12/04/nx-s1-5629211/health-care-broken-costs-united-health-investors
350,000 premature excess deaths per year occur in the US because of either dysfunction in our health care financing or poor quality in health care delivery. We could do so much better. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
350,000 premature excess deaths per year occur in the US because of either dysfunction in our health care financing or poor quality in health care delivery. We could do so much better. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...