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Single-Payer Actions Planned in over Fifty Cities

Activists of every stripe take to the streets to support single-payer As the Obama administration calls for health reform to be done this year, people in support of improved Medicare for all, a single-payer national health system, take to the streets in over 50 cities around May 30th. Single-payer advocates support the removal of for-profit…

Montana AFL-CIO State Convention Reaffirms Endorsement of HR 676

The 53rd Annual Montana AFL-CIO State Convention reaffirmed its previous endorsement of HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The Montana AFL-CIO endorsed HR 676 for the first time at its 2008 Convention. This year’s Convention resolution resolved “that the Montana State AFL-CIO reaffirms its endorsement of and commitment…

Healthcare-NOW! on Uprising Radio

Healthcare-NOW!’s Katie Robbins was interviewed on Uprising Radio last week. You can hear the segment below, or listen to the full episode here. Listen Here

Green Party endorses national Day of Action for Single-Payer health care on May 30

The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the national Day of Action for Single-Payer national health care (Medicare For All) on Saturday, May 30. The Day of Action is being organized by Healthcare-Now and other groups dedicated to winning a health care system that covers all Americans, providing treatment regardless of employment, income,…

Indiana IBEW Local Endorses HR 676

IBEW Local 725 has endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Local 725 is a construction local with jurisdiction in nine Indiana and six Illinois counties. R. Todd Thacker, Local 725 Business Manager, said: “Health care coverage continues to be a critical issue, either in finding coverage or dealing…

Nurses and Doctors Call for “Florence Nightingale Day Protest,” May 12

Nurses and Doctors Call for “Florence Nightingale Day Protest” Against Max Baucus and Health Insurers: May 12 Baucus Again Calls Senate Finance Hearing Without Information on “The Nurses’ and Doctors’ Plan” for Healthcare Reform: Single-Payer Healthcare. What: Activist registered nurses and physicians are calling for a “Florence Nightingale Day Protest” against Sen. Max Baucus and…

Action Alert: Please Call Now for Single-Payer National Healthcare

It’s National Nurses Week, and there are many single-payer festivities in Washington, DC. Help us celebrate the leading role nurses play in the single-payer movement by joining us in Washington DC and/or making a call to get single-payer experts into the Senate Finance Committee Roundtable discussion! This Tuesday, May 12, the Senate Finance Committee is…

Baucus 8 Update: Single-Payer in the News

I was one of the Baucus 8 in Tuesday’s demonstration at the Senate Finance Committee Round Table on health care. It was a meaningful and empowering action to be a part of, and I am awed and humbled by the response from single-payer supporters around the country. Hundreds of people have written and donated to…

Tonight: Single-Payer on the ED Show, MSNBC

Tonight! 6 PM Eastern time, Margaret Flowers of PNHP will be on the ED Show on MSNBC. Margaret was one of the eight single-payer advocates arrested at the last Senate Roundtable on health reform. More on the ED Show here.

The terrible news?

The terrible news? “In the Long Drive to Cure Cancer, Advances Have Been Elusive” This is a front page story on Friday, April 24th from a New York Times front page last week. The article went on to outline the discouraging research: “As other death rates fall, cancer’s scarcely moves.” Unfortunately for me, it was…