Healthcare-NOW Updates – Page 5

Vote for the Worst Health Insurance Company of 2013

Now’s your chance to vote for the worst health insurance company of 2013! The nominees are… UnitedHealth for paying its CEO, Stephen Hemsley, $49 million last year. Moda Health for paying $40 million for naming rights to the Portland Trailblazers arena. Anthem Blue Cross for predatory premium increases even while announcing $2.7 billion in net…

2013 National Strategy Conference Report

Healthcare-NOW! held its annual Strategy Conference this year on October 5 and 6 in Nashville, Tennessee at the beautiful Scarritt-Bennett Center near Vanderbilt University. Over 110 activists converged from more than 23 states to discuss organizing strategy, network, and share skill-building. The conference featured four plenary panels, fourteen workshops, and a keynote speech by Frances…

Healthcare.gov Is Just The Start

If the Obamacare website debacle is any indication, 2014 will be an interesting year for health reform! We know that powerful private health insurers will attempt to evade new regulations and profit off of confusing changes in the industry. This is why we need your support today. We’ve got to make the most of new…

The Shutdown is Over. Now What?

Government employees returned to work yesterday, and the price of averting a default on the country’s debts was the creation of a bi-partisan committee instructed to develop a long-term plan, by December 13, to reform Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal programs. Here at Healthcare-NOW! we have a prediction: As always, talks over this “grand bargain”…

Frances Fox Piven to Speak at Healthcare-NOW! Strategy Conference

We are thrilled to announce that Frances Fox Piven, professor of political science and sociology at City University of New York, will give the keynote address at our National Strategy Conference in Nashville on October 5th and 6th. She will speak about lessons from social movements that transformed American life. Frances is the author of…

Nominate the Worst Inurance Company of 2013

Congress is in recess for the rest of August, and we thought we’d try something new. So we created, and are now taking nominations for, The 2013 Award for Profiteering and Deceit in the Private Health Insurance Industry. Now’s your chance to nominate the worst insurance company of 2013! Just tell us the which insurance…

March On Washington

In just a couple of weeks, on Saturday, August 24, people from around the country will convene on Washington, D.C. to mark the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 civil rights “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Can you join Healthcare-NOW!, and our allies, in D.C. as we call for universal, guaranteed healthcare as essential…

Medicare’s 48th Celebration Updates

We want to thank all of the single-payer activists all over the country for all of their hard work in organizing celebrations for Medicare’s 48th anniversary! There were over 30 actions this year and activists added five cosponsors to HR 676 along with many commitments to cosponsor once the August recess ends. Here are the…

Call for Workshop Proposals

Healthcare-NOW! will be hosting its National Strategy Conference for the single-payer healthcare movement the weekend of October 5-6 this year in Nashville, TN. Participants are invited to submit workshop proposals for potential inclusion in the conference. The conference aims to build our movement and facilitate creative and effective organizing – this is your chance to…

Stepping Up Our Organizing

The single-payer healthcare movement has been busy, and the next few months will be packed with organizing efforts as well. With so much going on, we’re thrilled that National Nurses United (NNU) has decided to match every dollar you donate to support Healthcare-NOW!’s work until we reach our $5,000 goal. If you become a Healthcare…