Last 24 Hours to Vote for Medicare for All

Recently, President Obama spoke at to a large group of mostly supportive students and local residents at Arcadia University in Glenside. The president at one point mentioned that “people on the left”... 

PNHP Advances in Ideas for Change in America Competition

Physicians for a National Health Program just advanced to the second round of Change.org’s 2010 Ideas for Change in America competition with their “Improved Medicare for All” idea. Please... 

Obama plan leaves millions uninsured, boosts private insurers

February 24, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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From PNHP - President Obama’s health care proposal, preserving as it does a central role for the for-profit, private health insurance industry, is incapable of achieving the kind of universal, comprehensive... 

Put Single Payer Back on the Table

February 23, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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By Dr. Quentin Young of PNHP - One year after its much-ballyhooed launch, the Obama administration’s approach to health reform is now in serious disarray. The president’s health care summit... 

Dr. Margaret Flowers Visits Bill Moyers Journal

February 8, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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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... 

Medicare-for-all doctors arrested outside Obama-GOP meeting

January 29, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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‘There is a better health plan, Mr. President’ Rising to President Obama’s challenge in his State of the Union address that others come up with a better approach to health care reform... 

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (Part 2)

December 8, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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Citizen juries demonstrate massive support for single-payer By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP - “They contradicted both beltway and public opinion polls. The whole damn world seems to think the Clinton plan... 

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all

December 7, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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Introduction to a Six-part Series By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP Blog - “Americans are scared to death of single payer.” These words were not uttered by some foaming-at-the mouth wingnut. They were written... 

Health Care, Essential to Democracy

November 23, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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by Katie Robbins & Andy Coates - Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, we felt wizened to the possibility of unknown threats... 

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

November 11, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!  
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From Democracy Now - On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed... 

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