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Denial of Care Profits: $73 million for CIGNA’s retiring CEO

By National Nurses Movement – It’s hard for most of us to imagine a lifestyle supported by a $73 million retirement bonus. It’s even harder to imagine a whole nation’s healthcare controlled by those who have benefited so wildly from denying healthcare to those who need it. But Cigna’s Edward Hanway knows well what it…

Senate Healthcare Bill: A Step in the Wrong Direction

An analysis by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer In a last minute flurry of pork barrel deals and capitulation to powerful corporate interests, the U. S. Senate finally passed its version of healthcare reform on December 24. The final bill was roundly condemned by nearly every labor organization in the country. “The health care…

Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come as He Withdraws Amendment

By Donna Smith – Sickening. Saddening. Maddening. And the stuff of future determination in the political struggle for healthcare for all in the United States. On the floor of the U.S. Senate today, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont rose to offer his single-payer, Medicare for All amendment No. 2837 and to begin debate. Then, one…

Senate Tweaks Away Your Healthcare

By Donna Smith – As my grandmother used to say, “I was born on a weekend but not last weekend.” The latest insult to Americans hungry for a bit of healthcare justice for all comes from the news that the Senate health bill now allows insurance companies to place annual limits on payments for some…

Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer, Demanding Medicare for All

By Joseph Huff-Hannon for the Huffington Post – New York, NY. December 10, 2009 — On Thursday morning, a group of friends and colleagues, mostly middle-aged, sat and chatted over coffee at a midtown deli near Grand Central Station. Then Laurie Wen, an organizer with the Mobilization for Healthcare for All, showed up with a…

Maine AFL-CIO Calls for Labor Summit & Strategy to Win Single Payer

by Matt Schlobohm, Public Policy & Poltical Mobilization Director, Maine AFL-CIO, and Charlie Urquhart, Organizer, Maine Labor Group on Health On Friday October 23, 2009 the delegates at the Maine AFL-CIO’s 27th Biennial Convention unanimously passed a resolution calling on the AFL-CIO to convene, after the current healthcare reform process in Congress concludes, a democratic…

Bernie Sanders Presses For Vote On State Single-Payer Option

By Jeff Muskus for Huffington Post – While Democratic leaders abandoned the public option on Thursday, one senator reignited his push for an amendment that would allow states to test-pilot single-payer health insurance systems. No matter what federal health care reform finally looks like, the Senate should give interested state governments the right to prove…

Nine arrested at sit-in targeting Sen. Schumer

Health professionals, patients demand expansion of Medicare Chanting “55 is not enough, Medicare for all,” 9 protesters were arrested at a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office in mid-town Manhattan this morning. Referring to Schumer’s push to lower Medicare age eligibility to 55, advocates for Medicare-for-All state that opening it up to only one portion of…

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (Part 2)

Citizen juries demonstrate massive support for single-payer By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP – “They contradicted both beltway and public opinion polls. The whole damn world seems to think the Clinton plan is the way to go. Yet they like the single-payer system, which isn’t even getting considered in Washington.” That was how the president…

Civil Rights Complaint Filed with US Dept of Justice Over Hospital’s Closing

By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The president of the Braddock Borough Council has filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department, claiming that the closure of UPMC Braddock in the poor and predominantly black community is discriminatory. Council President Jesse Brown filed a complaint last week with the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting an…