Single-Payer News
Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now
By John Nichols for the Nation – It is unsettling to listen as President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi talk up a health-care reform “plan” that has yet to take shape in any realistic form. The vagueness on the part of the president and the speaker is, of course, intentional. Obama and Pelosi are still…
Read MoreBait and switch: How the “public option” was sold
By Kip Sullivan for PNHP – The people who brought us the “public option” began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the “public option” resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you’ve got…
Read MoreObama Admits US Can’t Insure All Americans Without Single Payer (Video)
From Democracy Now! – Obama devoted most of his White House news conference to defend his push for healthcare reform. He acknowledged the US won’t be able to provide healthcare insurance to every American without adopting single payer, which his administration has opposed.
Read MoreWhy Obama’s Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer
By Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein for the Progressive – Once Congress finishes mandating that we all buy private health insurance, it can move on to requiring Americans to purchase other defective products. A Ford Pinto in every garage? Lead-painted toys for every child? Melamine-laced chow for every puppy? Private health insurance doesn’t work.…
Read MoreUninsured Travel from Across US for Free Healthcare from Relief Group Remote Area Medical (Video)
From Democracy Now! – As debate continues in Washington over healthcare reform, thousands of Americans in neighboring Virginia are preparing to line up this weekend to receive free healthcare provided by a relief organization called Remote Area Medical. We speak to the group’s founder, Stan Brock.
Read MorePresident Obama’s Longtime Physician Opposes White House Health Plan, Advocates Single Payer (Video)
From Democracy Now! – Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama’s doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House. Today Dr. Scheiner is publicly opposing Obama’s health plan and is calling for a single-payer system.
Read MoreSingle-payer advocate on Colbert Report TONIGHT
From PNHP – On Tuesday, July 21, at 11:30 pm EDT, watch Dr. Aaron Carroll talk about single-payer health reform on The Colbert Report, the Emmy award-winning satirical television program on Comedy Central. Dr. Carroll is a board member of Physicians for a National Health Program (www.pnhp.org), an organization of 16,000 physicians, medical students and…
Read MoreGang of Sickos: Six US Senators Sell Out Constituents for $11 Million from Health Industry
by Mark C. Eades for www.opednews.com – A bipartisan group of six “moderate” US senators, dubbed the “Gang of Six” by news agencies, issued a demand July 17 for a slowdown on Democratic health care reform. These senators – including three conservative Democrats, one conservative Independent who caucuses with Democrats, and two moderate Republicans –…
Read MoreHouse Lets States Do Single Payer Healthcare
By David Swanson – On Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET in the House Committee on Education and Labor, the committee members voted 25 to 19 to pass Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s amendment to the healthcare reform bill. This amendment, if it survives the full House, the Senate, the conference, and the President, will not alter…
Read More“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors” (Video)
Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry From Democracy Now – As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who’s now exposing the industry’s dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one…
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