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The Healthcare-NOW! network has grown tremendously over the past year. New single-payer coalitions and groups are forming all over the country, and more individuals are becoming involved in our work. To... 

Feb 25: Sidewalk Summit for Medicare for All!

February 19, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates

NEW LOCATION: H St NW and Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC – Map here. Let’s make President Obama hear us loud and clear that we want Medicare for All! The event will be followed by lobby visits... 

President Obama: the Answer is Medicare for All

February 17, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates

Talking points below. Once again the president and congress are not including any discussion of the only real solution to America’s health care problems – expanding and improving Medicare to... 

Notes from “Medicare for All: Still the One”

February 16, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Healthcare-NOW! Updates

If you missed last night’s national conference call, “Medicare for All: Still the One,” you can listen to it here. Also, please find a transcript of Kip Sullivan’s remarks below.... 

Send a Love Letter to the Editor

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, can you help us get the message out that Congress and President Obama need to break up with insurance and drug companies and show some love to the American people... 

Medicare for All: Still the One

February 12, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Action Alerts, Healthcare-NOW! Updates

Join Healthcare-NOW! for a national conference call this Monday, February 15th at 8pm EST for a discussion of the rise and fall of the public option and why improved Medicare for All (HR 676) is still... 

Repubs, Dems, Blue Dogs and Tea Partiers: Everybody Loves Medicare

February 12, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Single-Payer News

By Donna Smith - President Obama keeps torturing himself and the 111th Congress by trying to come up with new ways to work together and a single healthcare reform effort that all could embrace politically,... 

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... 

Dr. Margaret Flowers Visits Bill Moyers Journal

February 8, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Single-Payer News

From Bill Moyers Journal – Pediatrician Margaret Flowers speaks about protesting for change and her recent arrest in an effort to get a Medicare-for-all plan back on the table. See the video of... 

Let Him Know

February 1, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
Filed under Single-Payer News

By Katie Robbins – After a sobering loss for Democrats in the special election held to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, probing exit polls about health reform show that the win of Republican... 

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