Healthcare-NOW Updates
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National Call-In Day for HR 676
January 25th: National Call-In Day for HR 676 H.R. 676 – the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act – was introduced last night, January 24th 2017! We’re targeting members of Congress at their DC office, so you only need to call the switchboard and ask who your legislator is. With your help, we will…
Read MoreRapid Response: LTE to NYTimes
Today’s Action: Sending a Letter to the Editor Yesterday, the NYTimes published an article on the recent Urban Institute’s analysis of Bernie Sanders’s healthcare plan. In addition to the fact that they accepted the analysis uncritically, they managed to make claims that not even the study itself made: Making big cuts all at once 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 MoreRegister: 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference
Join hundreds of single-payer activists from around the country at the year’s most important movement building event: the 2015 Single Payer Strategy Conference!
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 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 MoreGALLERY: Uprising for Medicare’s 50th Anniversary!
See our gallery of actions to Protect, Improve & Expand Medicare to all for Medicare’s 50th Anniversary!
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