Posts by Benjamin Day
Tell ProgressNow to Support Single-Payer Healthcare
On Wed, August 17 a self-described progressive organization “ProgressNow Colorado” hosted a press conference in Denver announcing their opposition to ColoradoCare, the ballot initiative for public, universal healthcare in Colorado. The group’s Director says he shares the goal of single-payer healthcare, but cited an already-discredited study claiming ColoradoCare would run a deficit to argue that…
Read MoreSingle Payer Actions at the RNC, DNC and GPNC!
Single-payer activists this year are mobilizing around the Republican, Democratic, and Green Party National Conventions. If you’re a delegate to any of these conventions, or want to join actions taking place outside, see our list of single-payer actions and events below!
Read MoreDNC Votes Down Single Payer… Again
“If this is controversial in this room, it is the only room of Democrats in which it is controversial.” Michael Lighty of National Nurses United said this to the Democratic Platform Committee on July 9, 2016, before it voted down his proposed amendment to include single-payer healthcare in the Party Platform, by a vote of…
Read MoreDNC Committee Votes Against Single Payer
On Friday June 24, the Democratic Party’s Platform Drafting Committee rejected an amendment that would have committed the Party to fight for Medicare for All, by a 7-to-6 vote. The vote is a slap in the face to the 81% of Democrats who support Medicare for All. Many believed that the Platform process would be…
Read MorePetition Calling for Single Payer in DNC Platform
Given the fact that the US spends 2.5 times the average of other industrialized countries, yet we don’t provide healthcare to everyone; and that Medical outcomes such as infant mortality and life expectancy, and equality of access, are much better in other countries; and that 58% of all Americans support Medicare for All, including 81%…
Read MoreDavid Ball
My Healthcare Story During a routine check-up several months ago my doctor decided to take an x-ray to evaluate my back pain. On the film it showed a suspicious mass on my kidney which after two CAT scans turned out to be cancer. Because it was caught before I had any symptoms and the Veterans…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Guide to the 2016 Presidential Elections
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In Memory of Dr. Quentin Young
Dr. Quentin Young, one of the most extraordinary leaders in our movement and a founding member of both Physicians for a National Health Program and Healthcare-NOW, died on March 7, 2016, surrounded by family, at the age of 92. Dr. Young was a founding member of the Committee to End Racial Discrimination in Chicago Medical…
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