Archive for December 2008
Why is single-payer health reform not viable?
A writer for the Billings Gazette wrote an article supporting single-payer healthcare. By MIKE DENNISON Reporter’s notebook HELENA – When it comes to health care reform in America, there is a relatively simple solution that will cover everyone’s basic health care, control costs and save businesses, most people and the country a lot of money.…
Read MoreDes Moines Register Endorses Single-Payer
The Des Moines Register recently printed an editorial endorsing single-payer healthcare. Here’s the whole editorial: “There is no way to solve America’s economic problems without solving health care,” said U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The $2.3 trillion spent annually on health care “sucks up 16 percent of our economy and…
Read MoreTime for More Single-Payer Truth Hearings
By the depth and amount of your response to our website, the National Strategy Conference, and the various videos and other resources offered from Healthcare-NOW, it is clear that we are growing in numbers and in commitment to a national, single-payer healthcare system in this country. In addition, president-elect Barack Obama continues to commit to…
Read MoreVote for Single-Payer on Change.org
Change.org is organizing the top “Ideas for Change in America” which they will present to the Obama Administration on inauguration day. Please help make single-payer healthcare one of those ideas. According to Change.org, “The ‘Top 10 Ideas for America’ will be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day. We will then build a national…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Minute at Our National Strategy Conference
In this edition of the Single-Payer Minute, Donna Smith attends Healthcare-Now’s National Strategy Conference.
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