Posts by Stephanie Nakajima
Washington Post Perpetuates Lies that Single Payer Hurts the Poor
Washington Post blogger Max Ehrenfreund’s piece “Study: Bernie Sanders’s health plan is actually kind of a train wreck for the poor” is the latest to rely on economist Kenneth Thorpe’s debunked analysis of the Sanders’s single payer plan. In “train wreck”, Ehrenfreund uses Thorpe’s data to conclude that single payer under Sanders would leave millions…
Read MoreClinton Attacks Single Payer Plan
We examine Hillary Clinton’s misleading claims about the effect a single-payer plan would have on middle-class Americans: Sign the petition asking Hillary to join 81% of Democrats and support single payer healthcare!
Read MoreFeedback on website redesign
Over the past few months, Ben and I have been working on a secret project: a full redesign of the Healthcare-NOW website. Our goal with this redesign was to create an interactive place where single payer activists could be empowered through action and education. The new layout should make it easier for our activists to…
Read MoreHundreds Attend 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference
NOTE: Relevant links to the Single Payer Strategy Conference Wiki are included in this article. On the weekend of October 30 – November 1 we hosted our most successful Single Payer Strategy Conference ever! More than 300 attendees converged on Chicago from Healthcare-NOW, the Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare, and One Payer States. We…
Read MoreIndividual Mandate: Progressive or Regressive?
How progressive is the Affordable Care Act’s provision that requires individuals to pay for private health insurance or pay a penalty? Consider our take:
Read MoreSen. Franken Challenges Insurance Mergers
Watch Senator Al Franken attempt to a get a simple yes or no answer from some very slippery CEOs:
Read MorePetition: Say NO to Insurance Oligopoly
Major players from the American Medical Assocation, the American Hospital Assocation, and of course the insurance lobby were present today at the first of several House and Senate hearings on the Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana mergers. Unfortunately, no one was there to speak on behalf of you and me, the patients. That’s why we created this…
Read MoreChange.org Petition: Medicare’s 50th
Sign our change.org petition asking Members of Congress to Protect, Improve, and Expand medicare to all!
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