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The Truth About Health Reform

Please join Healthcare-NOW! for two educational conference calls this month. The Truth about Health Reform – Thurs., Jan. 14th at 8pm EST Join leading policy experts and single-payer advocates on a conference call this Thursday, January 14th at 8pm EST for analysis from the beltway on the lack of transparency in the current health reform…

URGENT! Calls Needed Now

Just a few days after 20 demonstrations at Senators’ offices across the country in support of Medicare for All, we learned that Senator Sanders’ Single-Payer Amendment No. 2837 will be debated and voted as soon as today! Amendment No. 2837 would extend healthcare as a basic human right to all. Sens. Brown, Burris, and Sanders,…

Urgent: Call Senators Today to Support Sanders Single-Payer Amendment

The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor. This week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont filed Senate Amendment No. 2837, and there are two additional original co-sponsors of this amendment, Senator Roland Burris of Illinois and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Call your Senators. Tell…

Before You Carve that Turkey: All In for Bernie Sanders

By Donna Smith – Those millions of us who support a Medicare for All, single-payer, reform for the healthcare crisis in this nation have some work to do over the next few days. Senators are on their way to their home states for the one-week Thanksgiving recess – and they need a little up close…

Call Today: Support Single-Payer and Women’s Rights in the Senate

The health care struggle is far from over, and we have to fight to protect our rights every step of the way. For all the flaws we see in the House legislation, all indicators show that the Senate legislation will be worse. We have two messages for our Senators. Restore reproductive rights to the current…

Action Alert: 9 people arrested at Sen Lieberman’s office!

Dozens of people held a sit-in at Senator Lieberman’s Capitol Hill office this morning to demand that Senator Lieberman pledge to stop taking health insurance company campaign contributions and free up funds so they can be used to pay for patient care. For 30 minutes, demonstrators requested to talk to Senator Lieberman and chanted “Patients…

Call Now: Vote on Single-Payer Soon

We just got word from Congressman Weiner’s office that because of your phone calls, faxes, and demonstrations, Speaker Pelosi is keeping her promise to allow the Weiner single-payer amendment full debate and vote on the floor of the House. After nearly being shut out of the discussion completely, single-payer Medicare for All is being heard…

Action Alert: Make Pelosi Keep Her Promise on Single-Payer

Today, 12 brave activists were arrested because they entered Nancy Pelosi’s office in California to get some answers. They wanted to know why she broke her promise to hold votes on two single-payer amendments this fall. They weren’t leaving until the single-payer amendments were put back on the table. Pelosi refused to speak to them.…

Single Payer State Option Threatened in House

By Donna Smith – When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces the healthcare bill she plans to bring to the floor Thursday, will it still have the amendment that allows individual states the option of bypassing legal barriers to pass state single payer bills? Apparently not, in the latest concession to the insurance industry, Blue Dog…

The Next Wave of Actions

Tomorrow, the next wave of the Mobilization for Health Care for All begins. After over 100 people have risked arrest across the country in sit-ins in the last month, we are beginning to shift the debate about health care reform in our country. Our actions have helped to put a spotlight on the real problem…