Posts by Stephanie Nakajima
Stephanie’s Healthcare Story
Stephanie Nakajima, our Director of Communications, tells her healthcare story: Please tell us your story here!
Read MoreRapid Response: Jonathan Cohn throws the kitchen sink at single payer
In his latest, Jonathan Cohn praises single payer in other countries for producing “terrific results — providing everybody with comprehensive insurance for far less money than the U.S. currently pays” – and then pulls a Donald Trump, basically saying “but it’s just not for us”. While his piece manages to revisit almost every single payer…
Read MoreSign up for the Online Single-Payer Book Club
Healthcare-NOW’s very first book club has just been launched! Starting Friday, May 6 through Thursday, June 9, we’ll be reading Gerard Boychuck’s National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference. All discussions will be online, so you can participate on your own schedule! If you’d like to…
Read MoreBen’s Healthcare Story
Hear Ben tell the story of how he got involved in the single payer movement: Then tell us why you’re fighting back!
Read MoreRapid Response: Vox’s Tax Calculator
Vox just released an “excellent tax calculator” that, in its headline’s promise, “Tells You How Each Presidential Candidate’s Tax Plan Affects You.” In reality, it calculates an individual’s tax burden in a vacuum, without taking into account the savings on private healthcare premiums and other costs. This is a right-wing tactic meant to undermine support…
Read MoreJoin the Online Single Payer Book Club!
UPDATE: You can now sign up for the book club on the Single Payer School site! Follow our instructions here. Interested in getting together with other single-payer supporters and learning more about organizing, activism, and healthcare policy? Join us for our first ever book club! We’ll start our first book in early May, meeting…
Read MoreMinnesota Governor Proposes Single Payer Study
Exciting news from Minnesota: following the recommendation of the state’s healthcare financing task force, Minnesota governor Mark Dayton asked the legislature last week to finance a study of the costs and benefits of a single-payer system. Minnesota’s political landscape is one of the most promising in the country; the state is highly Democratic, and one…
Read MoreBen’s Testimony for Single Payer in Massachusetts
March 22nd, 2016 Chairs and Members of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, My name is Benjamin Day, Executive Director of Healthcare-NOW, the national advocacy organization for single-payer healthcare. I ask you to favorably report out the two bills related to instituting a single-payer healthcare system for Massachusetts (House 1026, Senate 579 and House…
Read MoreRapid Response Network: Washington Post
Today, journalists Kelsey Snell and Jim Tankersley in their piece The Many Mysteries Surrounding Bernie Sanders Health Plan make two easily refutable claims: 1. It’s impossible to know the effects of a single payer system on a country like the U.S. because other countries adopted single payer decades ago, before a large private heath insurance…
Read MoreMyth Busting Sanders’s Single-Payer Plan
University of Massachusetts economics professor Gerald Friedman addresses the misinformation being perpetuated by establishment media about Bernie Sanders’s single payer proposal. Let us know what you think!
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