Healthcare-NOW Updates
Video of Disruption by Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Roundatable on Health Reform
Members of Single Payer Action, PNHP, Healthcare-NOW!, and Labor for Single Payer, disrupted the opening to today’s Senate Roundtable discussion on health reform demanding that single-payer points of view be heard. Here’s video: Read more about this action here. See more videos here.
Read MoreDoctors Challenge Exclusion of Single-Payer from Health Care Debate
May 5, 2009 Washington DC –- Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer system–also known as Improved Medicare for All–directly confronted Senators at the Senate Finance Committee roundtable on health reform today. The single payer advocates wanted to know why single-payer experts were being excluded from the roundtable of fifteen witnesses. The doctors said…
Read MoreNY Labor Council Urges AFL-CIO Convention to Endorse HR 676
The Troy Area Labor Council has submitted a resolution to the AFL-CIO September Convention, calling for the AFL-CIO to endorse HR 676 and to lobby against “… any fallback program of mandated insurance or public option plans which include the wasteful, for-profit insurance industry.” The Troy Council’s resolution also asks that “the AFL-CIO help organize…
Read MoreIATSE Locals in St. Louis, Boston & Sacramento Endorse HR 676
Three more IATSE local unions have endorsed HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Stage Hands Local 6 in St. Louis, Stage Hands Local 11 in Boston and Local 50 in Sacramento all endorsed HR 676, reports Robert Score of IATSE Local 1 in New York City. Score is…
Read MoreState Legislators Launch Effort to Push HR 676
A group of state legislators has initiated a nationwide effort to publish an Appeal to President Obama and members of the 111th Congress to support HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced in Congress by Representative John Conyers, Jr. and 75 co-sponsors. Twenty four state legislators, from 16 states, have sent a copy of the…
Read MoreAction Alert: Make Single-Payer Part of Senate Roundtable Discussions
We need your help getting a single-payer supporter into Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussions on healthcare reform. The Finance Committee (Led by Sen. Max Baucus – MT) is holding three roundtable discussions on healthcare reform in the coming weeks. The first discussion, titled “Reforming America’s Health Care Delivery System,” on April 21st, had thirteen witnesses.…
Read MoreSaratoga Springs backs universal healthcare, HR 676
By Andrew J. Bernstein for the Saratogian— After a vote Tuesday, the City Council threw its support behind universal health care, passing a resolution to back federal legislation to establish a new paradigm for medical insurance. If passed through Congress, the HR-676 will create a single-payer health care system administered by private entities and funded…
Read MorePortland IBEW Local Endorses HR 676
The 4,000 member IBEW Local 48 has voted to endorse HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Dana Welty, Oregon Nurses Association, and Tom Leedham, IBT Local 206, made a joint presentation on HR 676 to the February membership meeting but the endorsement of HR 676 was tabled until the…
Read MoreUSW and CWA Locals Endorse Single-Payer, HR 676
Two more local unions in Oregon have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). In McMinnville, Steelworkers Local 8378 endorsed HR 676 and submitted its resolution to the Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties Central Labor Council for consideration, reports Joseph Munger, President of the USW Local. In Portland, Communications…
Read MoreAction Alert: Get Single-Payer into Congressional Hearings
House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) announced that the Committee will hold another hearing in a series on reforming the health insurance market. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, and will focus on strategies to reform the health insurance market to ensure greater accessibility and affordability.…
Read More