Joseph Q Jarvis MD MSPH

Sky High ACA Deductible Highlights Need for Universal Insurance - Health Justice Monitor The Trump administration is dismantling financial protections offered by the Affordable Care Act, proposing a $31,000 family deductible. This attack on the economic integrity of families is registerin...

What is the leading health care concern in the United States? It is high costs + high deductibles + copays, which translates to … unaffordability and family economic risk. www.healthjusticemonitor.org/sky-high-aca...

The Diagnosis Crisis: We Need a More Humane Health System Alexandra Sifferlin is a New York Times Opinion health and science editor and the author of the forthcoming book “The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis,” from which she adapted...

Most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Join the movement to put CARE back into healthcare—financed fairly for all. Learn more at www.utahcares.health

Modern American Medicine: Health Care Without the Care When Medicine Becomes a Pit Crew—and the Patient Becomes the Car

“Pit crew medicine will continue to blur the line between care and commerce—and patients will keep discovering, too late, that the race was never theirs to win.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

The Purple World: A Blue Ink Starred Review I published my first book in 2018 and it received a professional review from Blue Ink a few months later.

“Medicine has been reduced to a business opportunity, but one cannot maximize profits and optimize care.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Healing US: How To Change How We Do Health Care Yesterday I drove from the Wasatch Front in Utah to the Western Slope of Colorado in order to attend a screening of Healing US, the documentary film I produced about the sad state of affairs in Americ...

“I believe that when we Americans find a way to lay hands on each other in our moments of illness and injury, and really care for each other, all of us, we will rediscover our national goodness and heal the body politic of our nation.” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

It’s the Prices and More - Health Justice Monitor A blog post in Health Affairs highlights high US prices as the cause of massive healthcare costs. There is truth in this view. However, the problems plaguing US health care are far beyond prices. And,...

“A universal, publicly financed and publicly administered program will bring us universal coverage, low administrative waste, removal of excess profits, and protected health care access as a social good – features not found in a free-market based system.” www.healthjusticemonitor.org/its-the-pric...

Utah Cares Pushes On FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 2, 2026

“Medical expenditures in the U.S. will outgrow the rest of the economy, such that the nation will cross the threshold to spending more than a fifth of all resources on health care,” open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

The $10,000 Deductible and the Myth of ‘Affordable’ Care How disappearing ACA subsidies, soaring premiums, and bureaucratic chaos nearly left a consultant with multiple sclerosis uninsured.

“It’s estimated that “7.3 million people will leave the ACA marketplace in 2026” due to the loss of the subsidies. About 5 million people will go uninsured.” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

Utah Cares will bend the health care cost curve by permanently reducing the percent of the GDP going to health care expenditures, thereby saving our economy from a Soviet style economic collapse in the near future. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Press Conference 3/2/26 at 1 pm Utah State Capitol Senator Nate Blouin and Utah Cares to Hold Press Conference on SB300

SB300 proposes a statewide single payer health insurance system designed to simplify health coverage, reduce administrative waste, and expand access to care for all Utah residents. open.substack.com/pub/josephqu...

Have a listen to the latest Prior Authority podcast produced by Dan Bammes for www.utahcares.health

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Let’s end medical bankruptcy and medical debt. We can fairly finance all medically necessary care. Join www.utahcares.health and take control of our healthcare.

Watch Healing US at www.utahcares.health-This year unelect incumbents who never support real reform of healthcare delivery or financing (that’s most politicians). Make better simpler care financed fairly for all THE 2026 campaign issue!

Join me in removing business interests from the care of patients. Visit www.utahcares.health, watch the film Healing US, listen to the podcast Prior Authority, make a donation. Thanks.

How Much Longer Will Americans Wait for Real Health Reform? From the Clinton-era collapse to Obamacare’s limits and new Medicaid rollbacks, corporate power continues to stall a national health system that puts patients first.

“Will Americans pay medical bills for the rest of their lives while the profit concerns of big companies continue to overshadow the needs of ordinary Americans who just want a health system that takes care of their medical needs?” open.substack.com/pub/healthca...

“Health care costs are the top economic worry for Ds, Is, Rs, and President Trump’s “MAGA”.”https://www.kff.org/public-opinion/health-care-costs-tops-the-publics-economic-worries-as-the-runup-to-the-midterms-begins-independent-voters-are-more-likely-to-trust-democrats-than-republicans-on-the-issue/

ACA insurance subsidies expired. Now what? February’s episode of Purple Politics Nevada focuses on the rising costs of health care and the possibility of a universal health plan.

Yesterday, on Purple Politics Nevada, KUNR, two stories about how difficult today’s American healthcare system is, and my response. www.kunr.org/2026-02-20/a...

Medical debt harming health, futures of millions of Americans Even with health insurance and a steady job, medical debt followed Marsha Hall for nearly two decades.

“Approximately 14 million people in the U.S., or 6% of adults, have at least $1,000 in medical debt, according to a 2024 KFF Health System Tracker analysis. About 3 million of those people, or 1% of adults, have debts over $10,000.” www.thenationshealth.org/content/56/1...

Watch “Healing US” at www.utahcares.health. Join the movement to provide better, simpler healthcare financed fairly for all. Screen the film in your neighborhood.

American health insurance is the most useless and expensive way to finance healthcare ever invented. For the good of all patients, join us at www.utahcares.health. Let’s change how we do healthcare business.

“Charity in the broad spiritual sense—the desire to relieve suffering. . . is the most precious possession of medicine.”https://open.substack.com/pub/josephquinnjarvis961218/p/in-health-care-no-man-should-be-an?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

How does the quality of the U.S. health system compare to other countries? - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker Across a wide variety of measures of quality, the U.S. health system appears to perform worse than peer nations on more indicators than it does better. Across a wide variety of measures of quality, th...

“The U.S. health system appears to perform worse than peer nations on more indicators than it does better.” www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...

We have the means to purchase needed health care for every American patient. What we can’t afford is business as usual in the profiteering medical industrial complex. Join us at www.utahcares.health

How America’s Health Care System Broke in 2025 2025 exposed the consequences of political interference, rising costs, workforce strain, and unregulated AI.

“To move forward in 2026, we must be honest about what this year exposed: the U.S. healthcare system is officially broken.” time.com/7342307/amer...

“The Biden administration tackled the problem of understaffing of long-term care facilities..part of the Trump administration’s budget reconciliation bill prohibited implementing new standards.”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/health/nursing-homes-health-aides-medicare.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Don’t donate to or vote for candidates who fail to push for better simpler healthcare financed fairly for all. Instead donate your discretionary funds to www.utahcares.health

“Today’s American health-care system deluges Americans with hurt and harm inflicted by business model that amasses massive profits while wreaking havoc.”https://open.substack.com/pub/josephquinnjarvis961218/p/downstream-danger-in-american-health-26e?r=17gidd&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

How many Americans delay care because of cost? Let’s fix this problem. Support the campaign to pass the Utah Cares Act www.utahcares.health
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Find a link for the documentary “Healing US” at www.utahcares.health where you can also make a donation to the cause of better simpler health care for all. Here’s a trailer for the film: www.facebook.com/share/p/1HP5...