April 2009 – Page 4 – Healthcare-NOW

Frontline Responds on Sick Around America

By FAIR— In the wake of a FAIR Action Alert (4/6/09), Frontline has responded to critics of its documentary Sick Around America, defending the film’s focus on mandatory private health insurance and its exclusion of the single-payer option. (Frontline’s full response follows.) In an email response to FAIR (4/7/09), Frontline characterized FAIR’s charge that the…

On S. 703, “The American Health Security Act”

With the introduction of Senate Bill 703, the single-payer movement is gearing up to support a Senate strategy. We applaud Senator Sanders [VT] for introducing S703 “the American Health Security Act,” a comprehensive single-payer bill, though not a direct companion bill to HR 676. Differences between the bills are noted in the document (here) created…

Two California Labor Councils Endorse HR 676

Two more California Labor Councils have endorsed HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). One hundred and twenty-five labor councils and/or area labor federations have now endorsed the Conyers legislation. More than fifty per cent of the labor councils in California have endorsed HR 676. In Merced, California, the…

Report from Demo at Rep Rangel’s Office

This week the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG), including member organizations Healthcare-NOW!, and Act Up!, launched the “Not Covered Campaign” with overwhelming success. Putting Bill Maher’s recent words into action, “Health insurance is like a hospital gown, chances are your ass isn’t covered,” bare-bottom protesters wore hospital gowns and dressed as Insurance Executives.…

Single-Payer News from LA Health Forum

Here are some articles from the hugely successful rally for single-payer healthcare at the Presidential Health Care Forum on Monday, April 6, 2009. White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs Huffington-Post Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum LA Times The real show was outdoors – what the White House Forum…

White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs

By Jamie Court for the Huffington Post— “Prevention” was the word of morning at the White House Western forum on health care reform in downtown LA. Led by Oprah’s Dr. Oz, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire, the assembled “stakeholders” rattled off how prevention pays in health care. 20% of the patients…

Suffering and Dying for Healthcare in Las Vegas

By Donna Smith— Happy Easter everyone. Happy season of new life and blooming flowers. It’s the season of rebirth and regeneration. So, if that’s the case, then what the hell is up with letting thousands of people wait and suffer and die because we do not have the money to treat their illnesses anymore? In…

Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum

But the White House-organized event is light on details. By Lisa Girion and Noam Levey for the LA Times— Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — Even as President Obama toured Europe his administration pressed its healthcare reform campaign Monday in Los Angeles with a forum co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who lost his bid…

The Recession’s Impact: Closing The Clinic

60 Minutes: Bad Economy Leaves Cancer Patients Without Health Insurance In Dire Straits (CBS) In the economic crisis, public hospitals are needed now more than ever. If you’re down on your luck without insurance, the county hospital can be your last resort. Recently thousands of letters went out across Las Vegas telling cancer patients that…

Action Alert: We’re Not Covered!

Today, the day of the final White House Regional Forum on Health Reform in Los Angeles, protesters will be demonstrating in front of Congressman Charles Rangels office at the State Office Building in Harlem wearing “limited coverage” hospital gowns that expose their backsides. Leading this demonstration is the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a…