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A Single Payer Possibility (video)

From GRITtv – We’ve all heard the story about Medicare. That once upon a time, about 40 years ago, it was an idea that had very little support and that many said would never succeed. Well, it did and many are saying it should serve as a model for a single payer healthcare system. With…

Healthcare Justice Movement Mourns Loss of Leader

Marilyn Clement, June 30, 1935 – August 3, 2009 by Donna Smith – Marilyn Clement, national coordinator for Healthcare-NOW, died August 3, 2009. We mourn her loss. She was an organizer for the ages, a friend, a mentor, and as of today, an angel. Behind she leaves legions of single-payer healthcare activists who may not…

Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever

By John Nichols for the Nation – How should serious supporters of health-care reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow “debate” between “party of no” Republicans who favor no reform at all, and Blue Dog Democrats, whose “reform” is to make a bad system worse. And not by campaigning…

Progressive Democrats take a stand on health care (Video)

The Real News Network covered our rally for single-payer healthcare on July 30th and interviewed David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org. From the Real News Network: An amendment introduced by representative Anthony Weiner, which would have created national single payer, has been traded in for a vote on the House floor in September, as a part of…

Single-payer to be introduced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives

From PNHP – Friday night as the House Energy and Commerce Committee completed its markup of HR 3200, the House health reform bill, Chairman Henry Waxman interrupted Representative Anthony Weiner of New York to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had promised that single payer legislation, HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act…

Canadian Union Writes Obama & Congress Defending Canada’s Healthcare

The President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), one of Canada’s largest unions, has written President Barack Obama and all members of the U.S. Congress asking them to look past the “malicious misrepresentations and scare tactics” in the current debate over American health care reform and see the true value of…

Protesters Demand Network Coverage of Single Payer

From Democracy Now! – Here in New York, demonstrators gathered at ABC News’ Manhattan headquarters Tuesday to present a petition against the exclusion of a single-payer option from coverage on healthcare reform. Earlier this month, ABC News disinvited President Obama’s former physician, Dr. David Scheiner, from a televised forum. Scheiner had planned to question Obama…

“I Prefer Single-Payer, But …. “

The Selling of Single-Payer Features By HELEN REDMOND for Counterpunch – “Start off on high ground but end up somehow crawling…” –Bruce Springsteen, The Big Muddy The farce in Washington DC called health care reform makes the blood of single-payer supporters boil. That the Obama administration has crafted and is trying to push through an…

Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

By Isabel Macdonald for AlterNet – TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate. The debate about health reform is clearly in critical condition, with the prospects for President Barack Obama’s proposed “public option” looking increasingly uncertain. The U.S.…

Nine More Go to Jail for Single Payer

By David Swanson – Following a pattern of civil resistance in Washington D.C. and around the country, citizens in Des Moines Iowa on Monday risked arrest to press for the creation of single-payer healthcare, the establishment of healthcare as a human right, and an end to the deadly practices of Iowa’s largest health insurance company,…