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Massachusetts NEA Local Endorses HR 676

The Board of Directors of the Somerville Teachers Association (STA) has voted to endorse HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The Somerville Teachers Association, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the National Education Association (NEA), voted at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 7th. The…

City of Santa Monica Endorses Single-Payer Healthcare

On April 14, the Santa Monica City Council voted unanimously to support both SB810 and HR676, endorsing universal single-payer healthcare at the state and national levels. Public speakers included nurse Geri Jenkins, co-president of the California Nurses Association National Nurses’ Organizing Committee; Progressive Democrats of America member Dr. Jo Olson, pediatrician at Children’s Hospital, assistant…

Action Alert: Today is a National Call-In Day for Single-Payer

Today is a nationwide call-in day for single-payer national healthcare. Our message is clear: “Tax payer dollars should go to people, not profits. Support single-payer national health care now.” So today, we ask that you join with thousands of others to call Congress, to support single-payer legislation in both the House (HR 676) and the…

National Lobby Day and Rally for Single-Payer in DC

Wednesday, May 13th, is the National Lobby Day and Rally for Single-Payer in Washington DC. Leading the charge is the California Nurses Association 500 nurses strong to lobby and rally for single-payer in the nation’s capital. Joined by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, we want to use this opportunity to make the single-payer…

Maine State Legislature Endorses HR 676

Both Houses of the Maine state legislature, on roll call votes, have endorsed a single payer healthcare system and HR 676. Separately, a just released poll conducted by the Maine Medical Society, shows that a majority of the state’s physicians support a single payer healthcare system. The HR 676 resolution and vote in Maine, follows…

On S. 703, “The American Health Security Act”

With the introduction of Senate Bill 703, the single-payer movement is gearing up to support a Senate strategy. We applaud Senator Sanders [VT] for introducing S703 “the American Health Security Act,” a comprehensive single-payer bill, though not a direct companion bill to HR 676. Differences between the bills are noted in the document (here) created…

Two California Labor Councils Endorse HR 676

Two more California Labor Councils have endorsed HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). One hundred and twenty-five labor councils and/or area labor federations have now endorsed the Conyers legislation. More than fifty per cent of the labor councils in California have endorsed HR 676. In Merced, California, the…

Report from Demo at Rep Rangel’s Office

This week the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG), including member organizations Healthcare-NOW!, and Act Up!, launched the “Not Covered Campaign” with overwhelming success. Putting Bill Maher’s recent words into action, “Health insurance is like a hospital gown, chances are your ass isn’t covered,” bare-bottom protesters wore hospital gowns and dressed as Insurance Executives.…

Single-Payer News from LA Health Forum

Here are some articles from the hugely successful rally for single-payer healthcare at the Presidential Health Care Forum on Monday, April 6, 2009. White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs Huffington-Post Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum LA Times The real show was outdoors – what the White House Forum…

Action Alert: We’re Not Covered!

Today, the day of the final White House Regional Forum on Health Reform in Los Angeles, protesters will be demonstrating in front of Congressman Charles Rangels office at the State Office Building in Harlem wearing “limited coverage” hospital gowns that expose their backsides. Leading this demonstration is the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a…