In Response to Obama’s Deal
April 19, 2010 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
Below is Kevin Zeese’s, Executive Director of ProsperityAgenda.US, response to Frontline’s Obama’s Deal. If you would like to send your comment to PBS about Obama’s Deal, please...
Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate
July 28, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Isabel Macdonald for AlterNet - TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate. The debate about health reform is clearly...
Former Capitol Hill Staff Hired by Healthcare Companies to Lobby Congress
July 7, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
The Washington Post produced a graphic on how the Congressional committees working on health reform legislation are being lobbied by people who use to work for them. According to the graphic, “nearly...
Baucus 13 Settle Charges
July 3, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Healthcare-NOW! Updates
Legal charges against the “Baucus 13” were settled in a series of court hearings held earlier this week. The 13 were charged with disruption of congress after they attempted to speak on behalf of...
Insurance interests total 1/4 of Baucus’ fundraising
June 15, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Mike Dennison for the Montana Standard - As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health-reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he’s also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received...
Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No
June 3, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By David Swanson - Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested...
Baucus Battered By Voters For Health Care Stand
June 2, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Ryan Grim for Huffington-Post - Sen. Max Baucus got some not-so friendly advice from his Montana constituents last week as he works to reform the health care system: You’re doing it all wrong. Baucus,...
Baucus to Meet with Single Payer Advocates
June 1, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Single Payer Action - Guess who’s coming to dinner. After months of proclaiming that single payer is off the table, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has invited five key single payer advocates to meet...
Everything is on the table except what’s not (video)
May 28, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
Sen. Max Baucus, Chair of the Finance Committee announced last week: “single-payer option is not on the table because it cannot pass”. A week earlier, a rally, co-sponsored by one of the main...
Baucus 8 Charged: It’s an Outrage Outdone Only by Their Humanity
May 27, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Single-Payer News
By Donna Smith - They arrived on May 26 to the DC courthouse in business dress and on time. The single payer supporters now known as the Baucus 8 who were arrested on May 5, 2009, in your United States...




