Single-Payer News
Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all
Introduction to a Six-part Series By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP Blog – “Americans are scared to death of single payer.” These words were not uttered by some foaming-at-the mouth wingnut. They were written by Bernie Horn, a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, a member of Health Care for America Now, on…
Read MoreTeenager denied lifesaving transplant in US: National appeal to save Eduardo’s life
From the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign – While heath care reform dominates the national debate, there is a 14 year-old boy in Kansas City, Kansas named Eduardo Loredo who could die any day. Eduardo is being denied a heart transplant because he does not have health insurance (or enough money) to pay for…
Read MoreHealth Care, Essential to Democracy
by Katie Robbins & Andy Coates – Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, we felt wizened to the possibility of unknown threats in the legislative churn on health reform. As insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Catholic bishops, and the right wing throw…
Read MoreWeak Public Option Myths That Liberals Believe
For OpEdNews by Kevin Gosztola – On Saturday night, the Senate will take a procedural vote to move debate on the current health insurance enrichment bill in Congress forward. Democratic Senators like Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, and Chuck Schumer, through a project called Citizens for a Public Option, have been building support for the public…
Read MorePHIMG Stays On The Move
From the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition – On Tuesday, Nov. 17, during the evening rush-hour, two dozen activists organized by the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG) demonstrated peacefully in Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to demand “Medicare for all.” A broad cross section of people: workers, the middle class, the disabled, immigrants,…
Read MoreSitting in for Healthcare
A new group takes the fight for a single-payer system directly to insurers—and politicians. By Diana Novak for In These Times – Since September 29, when Mobilization for Health Care for All organized its first sit-in at health insurer Aetna’s New York City offices (led by the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition), more than…
Read MoreStudy: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance
From Democracy Now – On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under…
Read MoreLieberman Gets Another Visit from the Grassroots for Single-Payer
By Kevin Gosztola for OpEdNews – The grassroots organization, Mobilization for Healthcare for All, returned to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-CT) D.C. Office on Tuesday morning and confronted Lieberman for taking money from insurance companies and opposing healthcare as a human right. Sam Pullen, who engaged in a sit-in at a Blue Cross office in Los…
Read MoreHealth Care Advocates Remain in Jail, Take Action To Support their Cause Now
On Thursday, Mobilization for Health Care for All made another urgent demand to get insurance money out of our democracy so that real reform will not be blocked in America. It is unacceptable that 45,000 Americans die every year because of lack of access to health care. Nine advocates for Medicare for All were arrested…
Read MoreIs the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
By Marcia Angell, M.D. for Huffington Post – Well, the House health reform bill — known to Republicans as the Government Takeover — finally passed after one of Congress’s longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement split their votes; John Conyers voted for it; Dennis Kucinich against. Kucinich was right. Conservative rhetoric…
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