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Albany, NY Common Council Unanimously Endorses HR 676

Richard Propp, MD, of the Capital District Alliance for Universal Healthcare, Inc., reports to Healthcare-NOW! that “on October 20, 2008, the Albany, NY Common Council unanimously passed our resolution endorsing HR676. Thank you for your leadership, technical skills, and inspiration.” Here is the full resolution: RESOLUTION BY THE ALBANY COMMON COUNCIL, OCTOBER 20,2008 Council Member…

Healthcare-NOW! Interviewed by Mickey Z

Mickey Z, of www.mickeyz.net, interviewed our own Katie Robbins. Here is the interview, in full. My fellow Big Apple resident Katie Robbins is one of the lucky few able to make organizing and movement-building a full time job. She’s worked on projects with Food Not Bombs in her hometown Akron, Ohio, advocated for family rights…

Single-Payer Activists met in Nashville, TN for Healthcare Rally

October 6, 2008 – Debby Hester of Healthcare-NOW! Nashville and PNHP in Tennessee were able to get a speaker on the Nashville rally’s agenda, and Garrett Adams of PNHP-KY accepted the spot. Then Jill Harmer from Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare called the rally organizers to see if she could sing the song she wrote…

Activist Report Back from Healthcare Rally in Houston, TX

A report from Houston TX – Houston’s RALLY for Health Care Reform was held on 10/4/08 and marked our first single-payer speak out gathering over 60 organizations for co sponsorship, endorsement and supporters from a diverse coalition of professional and consumer health organizations, peace & justice and progressive community and even a table by the…

New PNHP Ad

Our partners at PNHP will have an add in this month’s issues of The Nation and The New Yorker.

CNA walked Golden Gate Bridge in support of HR 676

Single Payer Activists led by 1000 convention delegates from the California Nurses Association walked San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge in support of HR 676 and California’s SB 840. Members from the California Association of Retired Americans, AFT 2121, Health Care for All and Single Payer Now marched with the nurses. See more photos on CNA’s…

IUE-CWA Local 201 Endorses HR 676

IUE-CWA Local 201, in Lynn, Massachusetts, has endorsed HR 676, single-payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Local 201, which represents 2,225 workers at GE Aviation and Veolis Water in Lynn, Ametek Aerospace in Wilmington, plus thousands of retiree lifetime members, voted to endorse HR 676 at its August 20th membership meeting, reports…

Why Healthcare-NOW?

Here I am, Marilyn Clement – sick as a dog! I helped found Healthcare-NOW some four years ago when we held a national conference with people from all over the country. Now, despite adversity of the worst kind, I am still here, but dependent on you to push forward this great movement that we have…

Donna Smith at Binghamton Road Show

Essential Dissent brings us video from Donna Smith’s Road Show in Binghamton, NY.

City of Austin backs single-payer health plan

AUSTIN, Texas – Affirming that “every person deserves access to affordable, quality health care” and noting that area residents are not getting it, the Austin City Council called today for the enactment of a nonprofit, single-payer national health insurance program. At its regular Thursday meeting, the Council voted to endorse the U.S. National Health Insurance…