June 2012 – Healthcare-NOW

ACA Upheld: We Still Need Medicare for All

The Supreme Court just released their decision on Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), and their decision is that all components of the law – including the individual mandate requiring citizens buy private health insurance – are upheld and declared constitutional. This decision does not end the fight for expanded and improved Medicare-for-all. We know that…

New York State Single-Payer Activists to Hold Press Confrences on ACA Ruling

Single Payer Advocates to Hold News Conferences in Albany, Rochester, NYC, Ithaca on Thursday June 28 to respond to US Supreme Court decision on Affordable Care Act. Supporters of an expanded and improved Medicare for All program will hold a series of news conferences and rallies throughout NYS to respond to the expected U.S. Supreme…

How to Fix Health Care Without the Mandate

Why truly affordable care means single-payer. By Sarah van Gelder for Yes! – What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down the “individual mandate” in the health care reform law? Commentators ranging from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to Forbes Magazine columnist Rick Ungar agree: Such a decision could open the door to single-payer health…

St. Paul Regional Labor Federation Endorses HR 676

From Unions for Single Payer Health Care – The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, is the latest labor federation to endorse HR 676, Congressman John Conyers’ single payer healthcare bill. Robert “Bobby” Kasper, President of the St Paul Federation, reports that delegates unanimously endorsed the Conyers bill at their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday…

Can SEIU Help Vermonters Win Single Payer?

By Steve Early for Labor Notes – While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, another health care drama with wide implications for universal health care is just starting in Vermont. Prodded by a strong grassroots movement, the Vermont legislature voted last…

Two Events with Michael Moore on June 30 in Philadelphia

An Intimate Reception with Michael Moore and Wendell Potter June 30th, 2012 – 4 PM to 6 PM William Way Center Ballroom, 1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA $100 Minimum Donation. Tickets Available On-line. First Come, First Served. Go Here: http://tiny.cc/sickoreception Hors dourves and non-alcoholic drinks will be available. Beer and wine available for small donation.…

No Matter What the Supremes Say, We’re Still SiCKO After All These Years

By Donna Smith – Come on to Philadelphia on June 30th, if you want to know the low down on what the high court of the land says about health reform. Some real people who serve as the world’s highest profile examples of the dysfunctional healthcare system in the United States, filmmaker Michael Moore, and…

AHIP Gave More Than $100 Million to Chamber’s Efforts to Derail Health Care Reform

By Chris Frates for National Journal – The nation’s leading health insurance industry group gave more than $100 million to help fuel the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2009 and 2010 efforts to defeat President Obama’s signature health care reform law, National Journal’s Influence Alley has learned. During the final push to kill the bill before…

Preparing for the Supreme Court Decision

A lot of energy is being spent conjecturing on the outcome of the upcoming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). As pundits are busy speculating on how the decision will affect Obama’s reelection campaign and upcoming Congressional races, three possible scenarios seem most likely: – The entire law is…

Would single-payer healthcare be less vulnerable to the court than the ACA?

By Jeff Greenfield for Yahoo News – If the Supreme Court does decide to strike down any or all of the Affordable Health Care Act, the implications will range from the political to the medical to the economic. For me, such a decision will take its place among the more supremely ironic of unintended consequences:…