Action Alerts
Rally for Healthcare Sanity
Have you heard? On October 30th, Jon Stewart is organizing a rally in Washington DC to “restore sanity,” while Stephen Colbert is organizing a counter demo to “keep fear alive.” Sounds a little bit like Healthcare-NOW!’s campaign to implement a national universal healthcare system as the only sane answer to our healthcare crisis. Yet, corporate…
Read MoreBraddocks Fights for its Hospital
By Kay Tillow – Braddock, the home of many a working class battle, now fights to save its hospital, the best building in town, from the wrecker’s ball. Braddock, Pennsylvania, the site of the US Steel’s Edgar Thompson Works, lies along the north bank of the Monongahela just up the river from Pittsburgh. Braddock’s story…
Read MoreWhat’s Next for Social Security and Medicare
Since the launch of Healthcare-NOW!’s newest campaign, Hands Off Our Medicare, thousands have joined with us to say, “No cuts to our social insurance programs – we must protect, improve, and expand them.” Meanwhile, members of the Deficit Commission have been locking out workers and insulting advocates for the elderly. In response, Healthcare-NOW! has called…
Read MoreAction Alert: Fair Elections Now Act
Here’s some GOOD NEWS – The Fair Elections Now Act, the bill providing for publicly funded elections for Congress, has passed in committee and has moved to the floor of the House of Representatives. This bill gives members of Congress an alternative to being dependent on campaign cash from lobbyists and it gives any citizen…
Read MoreMarch for Medicare for All on October 2nd
People want more healthcare reform, not less. We have to stay strong for the single-payer healthcare system we need. This is why Healthcare-NOW! is mobilizing for the 10/2/10 March on Washington for Peace, Jobs and Justice. On October 2, we will tell the world that One Nation Needs One Healthcare Plan: Medicare for All! Here…
Read MoreAction Alert: Ask Congress to Attend Important Briefing
This Thursday, September 23rd an important Congressional briefing is scheduled on Capitol Hill to address changes to Medicare–which could weaken the program–that the Deficit Commission is exploring. The briefing’s panelists will describe the strengths of our current Medicare program, in particular how it reduces poverty and health disparities, and how a single-payer, or “improved Medicare…
Read MoreJoin Single-Payer Groups at One Nation March
Planning on attending the Saturday, October 2nd March for Jobs in Washington, DC? Join the single-payer contingent!! National Nurses United has extended the invitation to single-payer healthcare advocates to march with 500 nurses for jobs, social security, and Medicare for all. Buses are being organized from many east coast and midwest cities. Let us know…
Read MoreDisband the Deficit Commission
Former Senator Alan Simpson, who called Social Security a milk cow with 310 million tits, clearly doesn’t have the facts on Social Security if he is implying we’re all milking the system. Simpson co-chairs the Commission with Erskine Bowles, who thinks the government is spending way too much, claiming, “All of our revenue is completely…
Read MoreAction Alert: Talk the Talk
Healthcare-NOW! recently launched the Campaign to Preserve and Protect Medicare and Social Security. We need to make sure Congress knows that we will not stand for cuts or privatization of Medicare or Social Security. We support Improved Medicare for All to get our economy back on track. Will you help us build the base of…
Read MoreAction Alert: Your Vote is Needed
As you may know, the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process will examine the United States’ human rights record this November. To make sure that people’s voices are heard throughout this process, the U.S. Human Rights Network created the Testify Project, where individuals all over the country upload videos documenting human rights abuses in…
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