Oct. 6 – Join Us in Freedom Plaza

Are you going to the October 6, 2011 rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.? Healthcare-NOW! will be there to demand human needs over corporate greed, including life-saving, money-saving improved Medicare for all. Help us build the single-payer contingent by coming to Freedom Plaza on October 6th. Please email Vanessa@healthcare-NOW.org if you and/or your organization…

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My Medicaid Matters Rally – Sept. 21

Thanks to the Super Committee, the Medicaid program – on which over 58 million Americans rely – is more vulnerable to cuts than ever. 49% of Medicaid recipients are children, 25% adults, 10% are older Americans, 15% are disabled, and all are low-income. If people on Medicaid lost their benefits, the results would be greater…

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Act Now to Protect Medicare and Medicaid

The debt ceiling package recently signed into law by President Obama created a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super Committee). This committee is tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in cuts with the supposed goal of reducing the federal deficit. Members of the committee claim that “everything is on the table.” Everything? The committee will…

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Get Active Now to End Bad Debt Deal

The social insurance programs that have delivered increased health and financial security to those who need it most are being dealt away in a show of political theater over debt ceilings and corporate greed. On July 30th, Medicare turns 46. That’s almost half a century of reducing poverty, increasing health outcomes, and keeping administrative costs…

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Medicare’s 46th Anniversary Events

Medicare’s 46th Anniversary Events Nationwide – PDA Brown Bag Lunch Vigils – July 20 Albany, NY – July 21 Albany, NY – August 1 Bellingham, WA – July 29 Chicago, IL – July 27 Corvallis, OR – July 30 Fort Collins, CO – July 30 Front Royal, VA – August 2 Gainesville, FL – July…

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Tell Congress: No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid

Call Your Senators – National Call-In Day Today As part of the negotiations to raise the national debt ceiling, Wall Street-funded politicians in Congress and the White House are proposing significant cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. They want to: – Cut Social Security’s COLA – even though Social Security does not contribute one…

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Action Alert: Don’t Shred the Social Safety Net, Mr. President

Take action at a Progressive Democrats of America Brown Bag Lunch Vigil. In a press conference about the proposed cuts to entitlements held yesterday morning, President Obama said, “The American people want to see something done.” Yes, we do. 60% of Americans want to keep Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are. 61% think…

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Action Alert: Healthcare NOT Warfare

Healthcare-NOW! is an endorsing organization of Progressive Democrats of America’s Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign. To support the growing demand that we end foreign wars and bring money home for domestic needs, please sign this letter to the Senate Democratic Caucus asking them to support the DNC Afghanistan Withdrawal Resolution and Sanders’ American Health Security Act…

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Plans for Medicare’s Anniversary?

Medicare is making headlines daily. Republicans are threatening to eliminate the program, and Democrats aren’t impressing us with their ability to defend it. Regardless of the beltway politics, people across the country have been showing an outpouring of support for Medicare at town halls, and vocal advocates for Medicare-for-all like John Nichols and Robert Reich…

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Celebrate Medicare’s 46th Anniversary! – Join Today

In this time of strong economic uncertainty, while Medicare and Medicaid are under attack and states across the country are balancing their budgets on the backs of the working class, you have remained committed to fighting for universal and equitable healthcare reform. We cannot thank you enough for your championing of Medicare for all, but…

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