Health reform needs to end fee for service medicine

by Pearl Korn – As the health reform debate rages on, the central issue of how to improve care while reducing costs remains unaddressed. Fee-for-service has reduced doctors to assembly line pieceworkers,... 

Maine AFL-CIO Organizes Single Payer Education Program

One state AFL-CIO is actively trying to build the social movement necessary to pass single payer legislation such as HR 676. The Maine AFL-CIO takes its lead from resolution 34 passed at the September... 

Will Jerry Brown Sign Single Payer?

From Single Payer Action – When Jerry Brown was running for President in 1992, he wholeheartedly embraced a single payer national health insurance system. “When I see in Canada that they pay $500... 

Kill Bill: Death to Obamacare

By Dave Lindorff for Counterpunch – When Obama came to my neighborhood this week to press for public support for his health “reform” bill, he wasn’t just greeted by teaparty hecklers. Speaking... 

If Private Health Insurance Companies Are Evil, Why Are You Forcing Me to Be a Customer?

By Jon Walker for Fire Dog Lake – A big part of the final push for this health care reform effort is focused on how terrible the private insurance companies are. On the White House blog, communications... 

Former Rep. Massa Claims He Was Forced Out over Healthcare Bill

From Democracy NOW! – Meanwhile, Democratic leaders in the House are scrambling to secure enough votes to pass the Senate’s version of the healthcare reform package. Intense pressure is reportedly... 

Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers

By Sam Stein for the Huffington Post – The market concentration for health insurance is so monopolized in some areas that insurance companies are willing to raise prices and lose customers in an... 

Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer

By Matthew Rothschild for the Progressive – When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer... 

Eric Massa, Single-Payer Advocate in House, to Retire

By Patricia Murphy for Politics Daily – Rep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, announced Wednesday that he will leave Congress at the end of this term rather than run for re-election... 

When the Health Reform Truth Oozes Out: And it isn’t Just

By Donna Smith – Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday’s... 

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