Archive for October 2008
Entertainment Industry Unions Endorse HR 676
Two local unions in the entertainment industry have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). In Weehawken, New Jersey, delegates to the District 10 Convention of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) endorsed the Conyers bill, reports Robert Score, a delegate to the convention and Recording Corresponding…
Read MoreHealthcare-NOW! Interviewed by Mickey Z
Mickey Z, of www.mickeyz.net, interviewed our own Katie Robbins. Here is the interview, in full. My fellow Big Apple resident Katie Robbins is one of the lucky few able to make organizing and movement-building a full time job. She’s worked on projects with Food Not Bombs in her hometown Akron, Ohio, advocated for family rights…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Minute #3
Donna Smith brings us another episode of Single Payer Minute. This week we hear from Vanessa Beck, who has battled our dysfunctional health care system for the better part of her life.
Read MoreSingle-Payer Activists met in Nashville, TN for Healthcare Rally
October 6, 2008 – Debby Hester of Healthcare-NOW! Nashville and PNHP in Tennessee were able to get a speaker on the Nashville rally’s agenda, and Garrett Adams of PNHP-KY accepted the spot. Then Jill Harmer from Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare called the rally organizers to see if she could sing the song she wrote…
Read MoreActivist Report Back from Healthcare Rally in Houston, TX
A report from Houston TX – Houston’s RALLY for Health Care Reform was held on 10/4/08 and marked our first single-payer speak out gathering over 60 organizations for co sponsorship, endorsement and supporters from a diverse coalition of professional and consumer health organizations, peace & justice and progressive community and even a table by the…
Read MoreLike Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk
Michele Swenson, of HuffingtonPost.com, writes: The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers. It’s called gaming the system for profit – whether it’s Wall Street investments in dubious credit instruments for massive short-term…
Read MoreNew PNHP Ad
Our partners at PNHP will have an add in this month’s issues of The Nation and The New Yorker.
Read MoreSingle-Payer Minute #2
This week, Donna heads off to San Francisco for the large single-payer march over the Golden Gate Bridge. Find out more about the Single-Payer Minute on www.americanpatientsunited.org.
Read MorePBS Airs ‘Critical Condition’
A moving and timely documentary called Critical Condition was recently premiered on PBS. It documents four different accounts of people who are sick and uninsured in America. The film will serve as a powerful tool to engage our coalitions and communities in the work for single-payer healthcare reform. Watch the full film on PBS’s website.…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Minute #1
American Patients United.org and Guaranteed Health Care.org are launching this weekly news series on the growing movement to reform our health care system. This first video episode, “A Bridge to Nowhere” captures the scandalous current state health care in America- it’s a wasteful enterprise that benefits a tiny few while millions of others go without.…
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