‘Single payer’ still their goal

By Bennett Hall for the Corvallis Gazette-Times – Shortly after noon on Friday, state Rep. Michael Dembrow stepped to the microphone and addressed a crowd of about 150 people gathered on the steps... 

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 plan leaves millions uninsured, boosts private insurers

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... 

Denial of Care Profits: $73 million for CIGNA’s retiring CEO

By National Nurses Movement - It’s hard for most of us to imagine a lifestyle supported by a $73 million retirement bonus. It’s even harder to imagine a whole nation’s healthcare controlled by those... 

Nine arrested at sit-in targeting Sen. Schumer

Health professionals, patients demand expansion of Medicare Chanting “55 is not enough, Medicare for all,” 9 protesters were arrested at a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office in mid-town Manhattan this... 

PHIMG Stays On The Move

From the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition - On Tuesday, Nov. 17, during the evening rush-hour, two dozen activists organized by the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG) demonstrated... 

Between You and Your Doctor: The Bureaucracy of Private Health Insurance

On September 16 and 17, Domestic Policy Subcommittee Chairman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) held a two-part hearing entitled, “Between You and Your Doctor: the Bureaucracy of Private Health Insurance.”... 

Giving Single-Payer a Second Look

By Rep. Anthony Weiner - As President Obama prepares to address the nation about his vision for health care reform, we should not overlook the last, best truly transformative change to our health care... 

Healthcare Debate Heats Up

Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines looks at the US health care system, expose its cracks, and uncover the forces that are spending millions of dollars every day to influence the debate over the US health care... 

Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates

The corporate ties between insurers and media companies By Kate Murphy for FAIR - How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put some of the people they work for out of business? That’s... 

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