Healthcare-NOW Updates
Action Alert: House Committee to Vote on Single-Payer
Healthcare-NOW! has received confirmation that, in a display of Congressional leadership, Congressman Anthony Weiner [NY 14], will introduce a single-payer amendment similar to HR 676 to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s portion of the tri-committee healthcare legislation. We need your help in telling members of the Energy and Commerce Committee that the people want…
Read MoreAction Alert: State Legislators for HR 676
Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo and NY State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried recently launched a campaign to win state legislator support for HR 676. About a month ago, Senator Ferlo sent letters to every state legislator in the country, asking them to support national, single-payer healthcare. We need your help increasing the list of signers between…
Read MorePublic Citizen: Take Action for Single-Payer
Help Public Citizen reach its goal of 50,000 emails to Congress! Our nation is facing a health care crisis. Single-payer health care is the only reform that will provide universal coverage and contain skyrocketing costs. Public Citizen needs you to take action immediately and tell Congress loud and clear that lawmakers must order the Congressional…
Read MoreBaucus 13 Settle Charges
Legal charges against the “Baucus 13” were settled in a series of court hearings held earlier this week. The 13 were charged with disruption of congress after they attempted to speak on behalf of single payer healthcare reform at two Senate Finance Committee hearings on healthcare in May. Senator Baucus, the chair of the Finance…
Read MoreTell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate (Video)
Add your name to FAIR’s petition To address the public’s need for a “robust debate of health care issues and potential policies”, ABC recently aired a prime time town-hall meeting (6/24/09) on President Barack Obama’s health reform proposals. The forum was supposed to feature “questions from every single vantage point,” according to ABC host Diane…
Read MoreObama Asks For Your Questions On Health Care
Please take action for Single Payer healthcare by submitting a question to the President by Wednesday, July 1. You have to upload your video question to YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook. According to the White House: “President Obama is scheduled to hold an online town hall on Wednesday to discuss health care and the White House…
Read MoreSing Out for Single-Payer Road Show
Singer/songwriter Anne Feeney is headlining a tour throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in July to support national, single-payer healthcare (HR 676 and S 703). You can find all of her tour dates on her website, and listen to one of her songs right here. From Anne Feeney’s website: “We believe that single payer health insurance…
Read MoreToday: Tell ABC-TV to put Single-Payer on the Table
ABC News is presenting a full day of in-depth of coverage on President Barack Obama’s healthcare proposal today, Wednesday, June 24, 10pm EST. This includes an hour-long Primetime “town hall” discussion featuring Obama and questions from audience members. The ABC press release says that the town hall discussion will be moderated by Charles Gibson, Diane…
Read MoreAction Alert: Congress is Headed in the Wrong Direction
It’s time to tell Congress that it’s headed in the wrong direction – proposing to spend over a trillion more dollars to put band aids on a healthcare system that needs major surgery. Everyone in the LCGHC national coalition and its network of millions of Americans have worked hard and made huge strides toward advancing…
Read MoreAmnesty International USA calls on Senate to Consider Single Payer proposals
Amnesty International USA issued the following email alert. To take action, go to the AI-USA online Action Center: Health Care is a Human Right — Urge the Senate to Have a Real Debate on Single Payer We at Amnesty International believe that policymakers have a historic opportunity to reform a broken health care system. During…
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