Healthcare-NOW Updates
We’re Organizing Rallies at the Presidential Health Forums
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!! As many of you have heard, the Obama Health Care Task Force is hosting 5 Regional forums on healthcare in Michigan, California, Iowa, North Carolina, and Vermont. Healthcare-NOW! currently has logistics on two (Vermont and Michigan) of the five demonstrations. On short notice, peaceful demonstrations are being mobilized outside the…
Read MoreOregon Plumbers Local Endorses HR 676
Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 290 has endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The 4,000 member local has jurisdiction in Northern California, Southwest Washington and Oregon. Eric Fanning, who introduced the endorsement resolution, said after it passed: “The membership of United Association Local 290, Plumbers and Steamfitters, is fully…
Read MoreToday: Mass Action for Single-Payer!
As the new administration takes on the giant task of reforming healthcare, the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care must continue to keep up the heat in support of meaningful reform and the tremendous momentum for the only plan proven to work: Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. So on March 10th, 2009, we will…
Read MoreAHIP Demos Next Week in DC!
The American Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the trade group that develops the policies that keep profit first in our health care system while leaving over a third of the population uninsured or with inadequate coverage, is meeting next week at the Ritz Carlton in Washington DC (1150 22nd Street, N.W. Either Dupont Circle Metro or…
Read MoreWhite House Healthcare Summit: Today 1PM
Watch the White House Summit live at 1pm today (March 5) at c-span.org. Click “Live TV/Radio” on the top right. Click “C-SPAN 3” under “Live Streams.”
Read MoreWe Have Good News/Tomorrow’s Demo. Cancelled
Because of all your calls and emails, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), our ally in support of single-payer healthcare, received word that Dr. Oliver Fein, president of PNHP, has been invited to participate in tomorrow’s White House summit on healthcare. He will therefore be joining Rep. John Conyers in the meeting as a…
Read MoreWhite Coats To Crowd the White House Gate Thursday
EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO PNHP PRES. INVITATION TO SUMMIT Thanks for all your calls to the White House!!! March 5, 12pm -1pm The White House Lafayette Park, Washington, DC Doctors criticize exclusion of single-payer advocates from summit President Obama is holding a Healthcare Summit on Thursday, March 5th. Over 120 are expected to be in…
Read MoreAction Alert: Let Single-Payer In!
On Thursday, March 5, 2009, the White House will host a summit on how to reform the healthcare system. The 120 invited guests include lobbyists for various interest groups including the private-for-profit insurance industry (AHIP), some members of Congress including Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus who has already ruled single payer “off the table,” and…
Read MoreAction Alert: Tell Sen. Baucus To Stop Pressuring CBO
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who ruled single-payer “off the table” before he even started considering healthcare reform, is now pressuring the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to favorably judge his health plan as financially sound–even though it isn’t. According to CongressDaily (2/25), Baucus, other lawmakers, and “some special interest groups have not been…
Read MoreVideo: National Lessons from State Health Reform
The following video was taken on February 25, 2009 at the “National Lessons from State Health Reform: The Massachusetts Case Study” forum in Washington, DC. National Lessons from State Health Reform: The Massachusetts Case Study from New Words on Vimeo. Speakers include: David Himmelstein, MD, Cambridge Hospital Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical…
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