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At Stake This November: The Future of Healthcare Reform

By Mark Dudzic of the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer – When the 111th Congress adjourns this year, the fight to win healthcare as a right for all in America will still lie before us. The Labor Campaign for Single Payer has vowed to help turn this year’s passage of PPACA into the opening shot in…

US slips to 49th in life expectancy

By Sahil Kapur for RawStory.com – The United States currently ranks 49th in the world in overall life expectancy, according to a study published in the academic journal Health Affairs, slipping dramatically during the last decade. “As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined,” concludes…

The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All

By Dr. Quentin Young – As we approach Nov. 2, it’s fair to say that in many ways the distortion of political discourse in our country has never been worse. Extreme right-wing personalities – reincarnated Know-Nothings – are elbowing their way into the nightly airwaves via paid advertisements and Fox News. Billionaires are lavishly funding…

Doctor’s survey: Single-payer health care system favored

By Deborah Sederberg for the News Dispatch – MICHIGAN CITY — It was a small sample, but the response was overwhelmingly positive. In early September, The News-Dispatch published a story about Dr. Rade Pejic’s presentation to Michigan City Rotary on his support for a single-payer national health care program. The paper also carried a copy…

How Health Reform will Lead to Single Payer

There are a lot of opinions about the new law and what that means for single-payer health care. Healthcare-NOW! staff is really interested in hearing your opinions on this new article from Tikkun. By Lauren Reichelt for Tikkun – This week I am in Denver at a different kind of Health Care Reform rally. Community…

Autism Speaks Vividly On Our Broken Healthcare System

Another essay by John “Hai” Knapp – There may be clips pasted from other two essays, “Needing Health Insurance and Having a Mild Disability” and “Why I Believe the Christians Should Call For Healthcare Reforms. This may initially be used to form a discussion on the Autism Speaks Social Network; but it may also try…

The Obama Health Plan Has Serious Threats to Medicare

By Michael Lyon, SF Gray Panthers – Obama’s Health Plan is fatally flawed because it uses insurance companies to deliver healthcare, but the Health Plan also directly threatens Medicare. People talk about “the healthcare crisis,” but actually there are two healthcare crises. For us, the healthcare crisis is 51 million uninsured, stripping workers’ health plans,…

What if everyone had Medicare?

By Henry Abrons – The Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States earlier this month, and it’s no surprise to learn that we’re in bad shape. The number of people living in poverty was 43.6 million (14.3 percent), up sharply from 2008, and real per…

The De-Privatization of Medicare

From MassCare – Most of you will have missed a short article tucked away in today’s Boston Globe, which – when put in context – speaks volumes about our health care system. Robert Weisman reports that Harvard Pilgrim will be canceling all of its Medicare Advantage plans in Massachusetts and two other states, and will…

AP Poll: Many think health overhaul should do more

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JENNIFER AGIESTA for Associated Press – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November. But the picture’s not that clear cut. A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should…