Healthcare-NOW Videos
Ben’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 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!
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 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 MoreTrump: Single Payer for Everyone Else
Healthcare-NOW’s Benjamin Day takes on Trump’s claim that single payer couldn’t work in the U.S.
Read MoreDon Berwick for Medicare’s 50th: Medicare for All
Don Berwick, former Administrator of Medicare and Medicaid under President Obama, shared this video with us on the 50th anniversary of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid about the need to extend public, universal care to everyone.
Read MoreIs the Single-Payer Movement Winning?
Benjamin Day, Executive Director for Healthcare-NOW!, delivered the keynote address for the 12th Annual State Conference of Single-Payer Action Network Ohio on “The State of the Single-Payer Movement and Movement Action Planning.” The keynote provides a detailed analysis of how to evaluate social movements as opposed to campaigns, why it is that most activists in…
Read MoreIf The Fire Department Were Run Like Healthcare…
During a press conference prior to the first of six public hearings held by the New York Assembly across the state, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, Chair of the Assembly Health Committee since 1987, was asked by a reporter whether his legislation for universal, public health coverage for all of New York would limit patients’ choice of…
Read MoreLosing Your Vision & Bartering For Care
Dr. Daniel Root testified before the New York Assembly Health Committee on December 4, 2014 about trying to care for the uninsured and underinsured in a rural county primary care practice. He describes a farmer, whom he has treated since childhood, losing his vision due to lack of access to basic preventive care; and another…
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