Archive for May 2009
Tonight: Single-Payer on the ED Show, MSNBC
Tonight! 6 PM Eastern time, Margaret Flowers of PNHP will be on the ED Show on MSNBC. Margaret was one of the eight single-payer advocates arrested at the last Senate Roundtable on health reform. More on the ED Show here.
Read MoreThe terrible news?
The terrible news? “In the Long Drive to Cure Cancer, Advances Have Been Elusive” This is a front page story on Friday, April 24th from a New York Times front page last week. The article went on to outline the discouraging research: “As other death rates fall, cancer’s scarcely moves.” Unfortunately for me, it was…
Read MoreDoctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested, Make History at Senate Finance Roundtable
By Donna Smith— It has finally happened right here in the United States. Citizens who believe healthcare is a human right have been arrested and are being processed like criminals through the Southeast District of Columbia police station. Their crime? Asking for single payer healthcare reform – publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare – to be…
Read MoreVideo of Disruption by Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Roundatable on Health Reform
Members of Single Payer Action, PNHP, Healthcare-NOW!, and Labor for Single Payer, disrupted the opening to today’s Senate Roundtable discussion on health reform demanding that single-payer points of view be heard. Here’s video: Read more about this action here. See more videos here.
Read MoreDr. Dean: Single-Payer Is Not Off The Table
Well, sort of. Howard Dean referred to the public option as a single-payer system on yesterday’s ED Show. To be clear, a mixed, public/private health system that Howard Dean is promoting is NOT single-payer. Only a system where private insurance is completely removed from the market is replaced by a government funded insurance program, with…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Health-Care Advocates Disrupt Senate Hearing
By Patrick Yoest— WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Eight advocates of government-run health care disrupted a Senate hearing Tuesday on health-care coverage, complaining that their viewpoint was shut out of Senate debate on the issue. One-by-one, the eight people stood up just before a Senate Finance Committee hearing and spoke in favor of so-called “single-payer” health care –…
Read MoreDoctors Challenge Exclusion of Single-Payer from Health Care Debate
May 5, 2009 Washington DC –- Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer system–also known as Improved Medicare for All–directly confronted Senators at the Senate Finance Committee roundtable on health reform today. The single payer advocates wanted to know why single-payer experts were being excluded from the roundtable of fifteen witnesses. The doctors said…
Read MoreNY Labor Council Urges AFL-CIO Convention to Endorse HR 676
The Troy Area Labor Council has submitted a resolution to the AFL-CIO September Convention, calling for the AFL-CIO to endorse HR 676 and to lobby against “… any fallback program of mandated insurance or public option plans which include the wasteful, for-profit insurance industry.” The Troy Council’s resolution also asks that “the AFL-CIO help organize…
Read MoreGet Them Out: Rotten Apples in Congressional Witness Bushel on Health Reform
By Donna Smith– Many know by now that a single payer healthcare system is the type of reform most widely supported by the American people and a majority of nurses, doctors and healthcare professionals. Many also know that Congress has so far deftly and purposely shunned most expert witnesses who would offer evidence in favor…
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