Nurses Blast 39% Anthem Blue Cross Rate Hike “Stronger Medicine Needed to End Insurance Abuses”
February 11, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
The nation’s largest union and professional organization of registered nurses, National Nurses United, today joined the national condemnation of Anthem Blue Cross for imposing rate hikes of up to 39...
Dateline NBC Brings the Sarkisyan Family and Wendell Potter Together
January 26, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
Mother Hilda Sarkisyan, takes her fight for her daughter Nataline to recieve a liver transplant to the executive headquarters of health insurance giant CIGNA. Her battle inspires top executive Wendell...
California Health Professional Student Alliance Single Payer Rally in Sacramento (Video)
January 13, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
About a thousand California Health Professional Student Alliance marchers and supporters gathered on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento to rally for single payer health care reform–their fifth...
Before You Carve that Turkey: All In for Bernie Sanders
November 23, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates
By Donna Smith – Those millions of us who support a Medicare for All, single-payer, reform for the healthcare crisis in this nation have some work to do over the next few days. Senators are on...
Single Payer State Option Threatened in House
October 29, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates
By Donna Smith - When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the healthcare bill she plans to bring to the floor Thursday, will it still have the amendment that allows individual states the option of bypassing...
US Healthcare History: Our Very Own Killing Fields
October 19, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Donna Smith - Jenny Fritts was 24 years old. Jenny lived with her husband Sean for the past five years, and together they had a little girl named Kylee, 2. Jenny was seven-and-a-half months pregnant...
Insurance Claims Denied (Video)
October 5, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
Bob Schieffer interviews Donna Smith from the California Nurses Association and Robert Zerkilbach of AHIP on a new report on insurance claims. Watch CBS News Videos Online Read More →
Why the Current Bills Don’t Solve Our Health Care Crisis
October 1, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
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By Rose Ann DeMoro & Michael Moore - Now we know why they’ve stopped calling this health care reform, and started calling it insurance reform. The current bills advancing in Congress look more...
AFL-CIO Convention Endorses Single-Payer
September 15, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Healthcare-NOW! Updates
Unanimous Vote for Medicare-for-All Reform PITTSBURGH – In a historic vote that adds the nation’s leading voice of American workers to a broad national campaign, the AFL-CIO voted unanimously at its...
Data Reveals California’s Private Insurers Deny 21% of Claims
September 9, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
From Democracy NOW! - President Obama begins his final drive for healthcare reform tonight with a nationally televised prime-time address to a joint session of Congress. His speech comes after an explosive...




