Single-Payer News
St. Paul Regional Labor Federation Endorses HR 676
From Unions for Single Payer Health Care – The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, is the latest labor federation to endorse HR 676, Congressman John Conyers’ single payer healthcare bill. Robert “Bobby” Kasper, President of the St Paul Federation, reports that delegates unanimously endorsed the Conyers bill at their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday…
Read MoreCan SEIU Help Vermonters Win Single Payer?
By Steve Early for Labor Notes – While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, another health care drama with wide implications for universal health care is just starting in Vermont. Prodded by a strong grassroots movement, the Vermont legislature voted last…
Read MoreNo Matter What the Supremes Say, We’re Still SiCKO After All These Years
By Donna Smith – Come on to Philadelphia on June 30th, if you want to know the low down on what the high court of the land says about health reform. Some real people who serve as the world’s highest profile examples of the dysfunctional healthcare system in the United States, filmmaker Michael Moore, and…
Read MoreAHIP Gave More Than $100 Million to Chamber’s Efforts to Derail Health Care Reform
By Chris Frates for National Journal – The nation’s leading health insurance industry group gave more than $100 million to help fuel the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2009 and 2010 efforts to defeat President Obama’s signature health care reform law, National Journal’s Influence Alley has learned. During the final push to kill the bill before…
Read MoreWould single-payer healthcare be less vulnerable to the court than the ACA?
By Jeff Greenfield for Yahoo News – If the Supreme Court does decide to strike down any or all of the Affordable Health Care Act, the implications will range from the political to the medical to the economic. For me, such a decision will take its place among the more supremely ironic of unintended consequences:…
Read MoreThe Reward for Donating a Kidney: No Insurance
From the New York Times – When Erika Royer’s lupus led to kidney failure four years ago, her father, Radburn, was able to give her an extraordinary gift: a kidney. Ms. Royer, now 31, regained her kidney function, no longer needs dialysis and has been able to return to work. But because of his donation,…
Read MoreE-Mails Show Depth of Obama Ties to PhARMA
From the New York Times – After weeks of quiet talks, drug industry lobbyists were growing nervous. If they were to cut a deal with the White House on overhauling health care, they needed to be sure President Obama would stop a proposal by his liberal allies intended to bring down medicine prices. On June…
Read MoreIt would not be the end of health reform, just a chance to get it right
By Rose Ann DeMoro for the Huffington Post – If President Obama is now confiding to Democratic donors that he may have to “revisit” health care in a second term if the Supreme Court throws out his first attempt, as Bloomberg News reported June 1, maybe this time we can get it right. Instead of…
Read MoreThe Big Three Automakers Push For Single Payer!
…In Canada. Please note that this letter was signed about ten years ago. But we need to remind them of this with the ACA ruling fast approaching. By Ray Medeiros for politicususa.com – The Big Three automakers, GM, Chrysler and Ford along with the Canadian Autoworkers pushed the Canadian government to strengthen their single payer…
Read MoreNew Poll: The Supreme Court and the Health Care Law
By Adam Liptak and Allison Kopicki for the New York Times – More than two-thirds of Americans hope the Supreme Court will overturn some or all of the 2010 health care law, according to a new poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News. Just 24 percent said they hoped the court “would…
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