Archive for March 2009
Activists Burn Insurance Bills at AHIP Conf.
On March 11, members of Single Payer Action burned their health insurance bills, in protest, in front of the AHIP conference in Washington, DC. See the full video of the demonstration below.
Read MoreMassachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan
By Kevin Sack for the New York Times— Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, made an expedient choice, deferring until another day any serious…
Read MoreForum Puts Single-Payer in the News
Yesterday’s Healthcare Forum, organized by the Obama Administration, in Dearborn, Michigan, drew many single-payer supporters. Enough so that quotes and stories from single-payer healthcare supporters made it into the mainstream press. Here are the articles and TV segments we’ve found so far: Cancer Story Stands Out at White House Forum Health Reform Forum in Dearborn…
Read MoreCancer Story Stands Out at White House Forum
Participants at the first White House Regional Forum on Health Care Reform heard from many people who have horror stories about their health care. WATCH ACTION NEWS REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT One participant was Adrian Campbell Montgomery. The young mother told the crowd about her battles with cancer. At 22 she…
Read MoreHealthcare fix crucial to recovery -Michigan forum
By Michael Strong for Reuters— Hard-hit industrial state hosts forum Delegates agree on need to control costs Many favor single-payer plan DEARBORN, Mich., March 12 (Reuters) – “Michigan is the poster child of why reform needs to happen,” Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told President’s Barack Obama’s first regional healthcare forum on Thursday. Obama has said…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Health Care: A Burning Issue
By Andrew Price for GOOD— It seems we might actually be changing health care in America this time around. One way we could go would be to adopt what’s called a “single-payer” system like Canada has. Under a single-payer system we would do away with the health insurance companies and one payer (the government) would…
Read More1st White House health forum kicks off in Michigan
By Kathy Barks Hoffman for the AP— DEARBORN, Mich. – The first White House Regional Health Reform Forum turned emotional Thursday as a young mother with ovarian cancer told of how not having health insurance caused her to put off the doctor’s visit that may have caught the cancer earlier. Adrian Campbell Montgomery is waiting…
Read MoreDebate: Single-Payer Vs. Public Option
Change.org is hosting a blog debate between Dr. Don McCanne, a retired family physician now serving as Senior Health Policy Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program, and Jason Rosenbaum, a writer and activist, and the Deputy Director of Online Campaigns for Health Care for America Now. Dr. McCanne is representing the single-payer model,…
Read MoreNewly Formed 150,000-Strong Nurses’ Union Pushes for Single-Payer Healthcare
From Democracy Now!— Three of the country’s top organizations of direct care registered nurses have come together to form a new national nurses’ union that is advocating for a single-payer national health insurance program. The new union unifies the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association into a…
Read MorePut Single-Payer on the Table
By Amy Goodman for TruthDig.com— President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care delivery remains private. People still get their choice of what doctor to go to…
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