Healthcare-NOW Updates
Healthcare-NOW panel on GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Members of Healthcare-NOW!, including with Art Richter, Tom Knoche, and Mayor Wayne Hall, visit GRITtv for a discussion about single-payer healthcare.
Read MoreConference of Mayors Endorses HR 676
The U.S. Conference of Mayors today adopted a resolution sponsored by West Palm Beach, Florida Mayor, Lois Frankel, endorsing the passage of H.R. 676, The National Health Insurance Act, Michigan Congressman John Conyers’ bill which expands and improves the Medicare system to cover everyone in the United States under a single-payer national health insurance system.…
Read MoreSan Francisco Mayor Endorses HR 676
The Associate Press reports that, “San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a resolution this morning in support of legislation that would establish a nationwide universal health insurance program.” Full Article: Newsom signs resolution endorsing universal healthcare bill
Read MoreSiCKO Cure Road Show Rolls into New Orleans
By Donna Smith, PDA CO member The SiCKO Cure Road Show rolled into New Orleans on Saturday, and the road show team immediately joined a meeting of local activists fighting the demolition of thousands of public housing units. Though some relatively powerful groups oppose the loss of some 3,900 public housing units, the demolitions will…
Read MoreTerra Haute, Indiana, November 13th
The bus campaign’s creators say it is aimed at educating Americans in 11 states about the comprehensive, cost-effective solution to the current health insurance crisis, the U.S. National Health Insurance Act (HR 676). Local Healthcare-NOW! members will meet with Rep. Brad Ellsworth’s staff at 2 p.m. at the congressman’s Terre Haute office. At 7 p.m.,…
Read MoreGary, Indiana, November 12th
The tour stopped in Northwest Indiana because U.S Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., is not one of the 86 members of the House supporting the bill. Healthcare-NOW coordinator Marilyn Clement and United Steelworkers District 7’s Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees executive board member Stephen Skvara met with Mark Lopez, a representative of Visclosky’s office to discuss…
Read MoreOn The Road Again: The SiCKO Cure Road Show
By Donna Smith NASHVILLE–We’ve been on the health care road show for five days now, and we’re finding this road full of interesting souls,from Chicago to Nashville . In a 1980 school bus painted with bold black lettering announcing our single-payer, universal health care movement, we’ve been making our way from city to city spreading…
Read MoreGainsville, FL Truth Hearing
A coalition of the Alachua County NAACP, Central Labor Council of North Central Florida, Gainesville Area National Origination for Women, Graduates Assistants United (GAU), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2779, Physicians for a national Health Plan, United Faculty of Florida, Gainesville Women’s Liberation and the Alachua County Labor Party was formed in January…
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