Action Alerts
Will Medicare Survive?
Please go here to thank the “Medicare 111” and encourage them to stand strong on their commitment to protect Social Security and Medicare. Please Share This Action on Facebook Today, President Obama released a budget that would reduce Social Security benefits and shift healthcare costs onto seniors enrolled in Medicare. This proposed budget includes a…
Read MoreAction Alert: Should School Workers Earn $2 An Hour?
The cooks, custodians, and maintenance workers at the Old Rochester School system in Massachusetts are facing an impossible healthcare situation. You can help by signing their change.org petition asking their employer to do the right thing and raising awareness about the need for single-payer healthcare reform. Here’s what happened: the Old Rochester School Committee is…
Read MoreAsk Socially Responsible Investors to Say NO To For-Profit Health Insurance
We need your help for a collective action. TIAA-CREF, the nation’s largest retirement fund, covering academic (including medical) and religious organizations, has an option for those who want to invest their money in “socially responsible” companies. It’s called CREF-Social Choice. While CREF-Social Choice does not invest in the tobacco, gambling, or liquor industries, the fund…
Read MoreTake Action – Medicare for All Act Reintroduced
We’re excited to announce that Rep John Conyers (D-Mich.) reintroduced HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, last week. The bill had 37 initial cosponsors and an additional three signed on soon after it was reintroduced. Rep. Conyers has introduced HR 676 every Congress since 2003. He remains committed, despite the passage…
Read MoreCall Congress – Single-Payer Bill to be Reintroduced
Ask your Representative to become an original cosponsor of HR 676: “The Expanded & Improved Medicare For All Act.” today! Rep. John Conyers is going to reintroduce national, single-payer healthcare legislation very soon–sometime this week. Before he introduces the bill, Mr. Conyers would like to have as many original cosponsors as possible. Please call your…
Read MoreHelp Us Start 2013 Strong
History proves the power of grassroots movements funded by people like you is the only way to win against corporate greed. We need you to continue to support Healthcare-NOW! so we can end our healthcare crisis. Please make a tax-deductible donation today! Donate $40 or more and we’ll send you a copy of Dr. John…
Read MoreLobby, Organizing Materials for Protecting Medicare
Many single-payer activists and supporters have been thinking about, or already started, planning an event to protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security the week of December 10th (International Human Rights Day). To help, we created a number of resources you can use for a lobby visit or event. Download this letter (.doc) to sign and…
Read MoreDec. 10 – Rally to Stop the “Grand Bargain”
As you know, President Obama is seeking a “grand bargain” to avoid the so-called “fiscal cliff” coming at the end of the year. We already know that President Obama is willing to raise Medicare’s eligibility age from 65 to 67 and cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security by $650 billion. We need to stop any…
Read MoreObama/GOP “Grand Bargain” Threatens Medicare
Medicare-for-All is the Solution! Go here to email Congress asking them NOT to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Dear Single-Payer Healthcare Supporter: The Presidential election is over but the fight to save Medicare intensifies. While Romney and Ryan campaigned for turning Medicare into a private voucher system, support for privatization comes from both sides…
Read MoreAction Alert: Tell 12 Governors Not to Block Medicaid
Matthew Solis, 22, is a single father in San Juan, Texas with joint custody of his 4-year-old daughter. He works 25 hours a week for minimum wage while attending college full-time. He can’t afford private insurance, and he makes about $8,700 a year–too much to qualify for Medicaid in his state. Let’s change that. Obama’s…
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