NARH Nurses Vote to Authorize Strike
July 27, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE AT STAKE The registered nurses of the North Adams Regional Hospital (NARH) voted overwhelmingly July 19 to authorize their union leadership to call a strike if necessary...
Action Alert: Expect Better from PBS
April 20, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates
Recently, we announced Frontline’s new program, “Obama’s Deal,” which included a segment that featured single-payer advocates arrested in the Senate Finance Committee protesting...
Diary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill
March 25, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United – Passage of President Obama’s healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of...
Listen: Discussing the Health Bill and the Individual Mandate
March 23, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Healthcare-NOW! Updates
If you missed last night’s national conference call on the recently passed health bill and the individual mandate, you can listen to it here. We had about 250 people on this call, and we’d...
Monday Night: Let’s Discuss the Health Bill
March 21, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
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Join Healthcare-NOW! for a conference call exposing the last minute negotiations of the health care bill and the ramifications of the mandate to purchase private insurance when public programs like Medicaid...
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!
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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...







