Update on Single Payer from Dr. Margaret Flowers

An interview with Dr. Margaret Flowers from OpEdNews.com by Joan Brunwasser – My guest is Dr. Margaret Flowers, congressional fellow of Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP]. Welcome back... 

Nation Conversations: Wendell Potter on the Health Insurance Industry’s Lock on Congress

From The Nation – Listen below. Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, stopped by The... 

Single-Payer is Inevitable

Progressives and Conservatives Agree By Rob Stone, MD – “The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government... 

Obama Received $20 Million from Healthcare Industry in 2008 Campaign

Almost three times the amount given to McCain by Brad Jacobson for the Raw Story - While some sunlight has been shed on the hefty sums shoveled into congressional campaign coffers in an effort to influence... 

Healthcare Memo: Don’t Mourn, Escalate

By Deborah Burger, R.N., President of the California Nurses Assn. - There’s a fundamental lesson in collective bargaining that seems to have been lost on the White House, and those in Congress who... 

Former Insurance Industry Insider on Profits Before Patients

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how...