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2008 National Strategy Conference Round-Up

Thank you to all who made it to Chicago for the Healthcare-NOW! National Strategy Conference! It was a weekend packed with review, assessment, strategy, and inspiration for those of us bracing for the upcoming legislative battle for single-payer. For those of you who weren’t there, you missed a GREAT conference! This post contains a detailed…

How the Economic Crisis Presents Opportunities to Advance Single-Payer Healthcare

During Healthcare-NOW’s 2008 National Strategy Conference, Dr. Arthur MacEwan outlined how the current economic crisis presents opportunities to advance single-payer healthcare in the US. Dr. MacEwan is a Professor Emeritus of Economics and Senior Fellow of Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He has been a faculty member of the…

Oregon Teamster Local Endorses HR 676

Teamster Local 206, which represents workers in a variety of occupations through out the state of Oregon, has endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Tom Leedham, Local 206 Secretary-Treasurer said: “Members of our union are very involved in health care and have studied a number of proposals for…

Action Alert!

On November 19th, 2008, at 10 a.m., the Senate Finance Committee will hold a host a hearing in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C., titled: “Health Care Reform: An Economic Perspective” As of this time, only two U.S. Senators, Max Baucus of Montana and Charles Grassley of Iowa, are slated to offer statements,…

Ask Kennedy To Make It Single-Payer

News articles report that Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has instructed the staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee to begin working on a comprehensive healthcare bill to be presented in the next Congress that convenes in early January. The following letter was sent to Senator Ted Kennedy on behalf of the All…

Latino Caucus, California CLC, OPEIU Local Endorse HR 676

HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation, introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), has picked up three more labor endorsements. Delegates to the 19th Annual Latino Caucus of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), meeting in Allentown, Pennsylvania at the end of September, endorsed HR 676, reports Jose G. Guerrero. In California, the Napa/Solano Central Labor Council…

Candidates Supporting Single-Payer

The Progressive Democrats of America have a list of candidates who support single-payer healthcare. For the full list, please visit PDA’s site.

Communications Workers of America Endorses HR 676

Washington, DC–The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the 20th international union to endorse HR 676, national single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The endorsement came in a comprehensive resolution on national health care reform that was passed at CWA’s recent 70th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, June 23-25, 2008. Shortly…

Let’s Heal the Economy and the Health of Our People

Thanks to all of you for your kind words, re: my column/letter to the troops….the healthcare for everyone, single-payer troops who are now scattered by the millions across this land. Here goes another one, a column to explain how easy it will be for us to get great healthcare for all of us. Finally, after…

Philadelphia Healthcare Union Endorses HR 676

Philadelphia, PA–The Delegates’ Assembly of District 1199C, Philadelphia Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees (AFSCME), voted unanimously October 8th to endorse HR 676, the national single payer health care bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D MI). Following the vote 1199C President Henry Nicholas said: “No one has been more out front on single…