Archive for August 2009
Action Alert: Remote Area Medical Visits LA
In a stark reminder for the overwhelming need for universal healthcare in the US, thousands of Americans in Los Angeles, CA are lining up this weekend to receive free healthcare provided by a relief organization called Remote Area Medical. If you need care, go. All the information you need is here. Either way, ask your…
Read MoreHealthcare Debate Heats Up
Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines looks at the US health care system, expose its cracks, and uncover the forces that are spending millions of dollars every day to influence the debate over the US health care reform. Part One Part Two
Read MoreSingle-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
The corporate ties between insurers and media companies By Kate Murphy for FAIR – How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put some of the people they work for out of business? That’s the conflict of interest that journalists reporting on the healthcare reform debate are often put in by the…
Read MoreA Single Payer Possibility (video)
From GRITtv – We’ve all heard the story about Medicare. That once upon a time, about 40 years ago, it was an idea that had very little support and that many said would never succeed. Well, it did and many are saying it should serve as a model for a single payer healthcare system. With…
Read MoreReport Card on Single-Payer and Public Option
Healthcare-NOW!, along with Progressive Democrats of America, has produced a report card that compares single-payer healthcare with President Obama’s “public option” proposal currently being debated in the House and Senate. Please feel free to download and distribute the two-page report card. Report Card on Single-Payer and “Public Option” (.pdf)
Read MoreComparing Single-Payer with the Public Option
There has been considerable confusion about the differences between single-payer healthcare, which Healthcare-NOW! supports, and the healthcare reform options, including President Obama’s “public option,” being introduced by the House and Senate. So we’ve collected the following resources to clarify the difference: Report Card for Single-Payer and “Public Option” (.pdf) More of the Same Is Not…
Read MoreReport on Medicare’s 44th Birthday, July 30, 2009
Over one thousand single-payer activists descended on Capitol Hill on July 30th, 2009 to celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday as concurrent actions planned across the country and on the Hill culminated to pay great tribute to the nation’s most popular social program that is indeed the largest single-payer in the country of hospitals and doctors. The…
Read MoreThe Mad As Hell Doctors Road Tour
On September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care “on the road” in a wrapped and branded Motor Home headed for Washington D.C. to support single-payer healthcare. From their website: There’s no nice way to say it. The financial cost of health care is killing our…
Read MoreHealthcare Justice Movement Mourns Loss of Leader
Marilyn Clement, June 30, 1935 – August 3, 2009 by Donna Smith – Marilyn Clement, national coordinator for Healthcare-NOW, died August 3, 2009. We mourn her loss. She was an organizer for the ages, a friend, a mentor, and as of today, an angel. Behind she leaves legions of single-payer healthcare activists who may not…
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