Single-Payer News
Fighting to Cure a Sick System: Single Payer Advocates Take Unconventional Approach to Healthcare Reform
By Laura S. Boylan for The Indypendent – Katie Robbins thinks the fight for universal healthcare is so important she is willing to put her butt on the line. An organizer with Healthcare-NOW!, Robbins is helping to ratchet up protests to push Congress to establish a single-payer healthcare system. As part of the campaign, Robbins…
Read MoreCNA’s Donna Smith, National Organization of Women’s 2009 Woman of Action
From blog.aflcio.org – Donna Smith, a community organizer and legislative representative for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), was recently honored as the National Organization for Women’s (NOW’s) 2009 Woman of Action. Smith first came to the public’s attention in Michael Moore’s 2007 movie, “SICKO.” Despite having health insurance and even a health…
Read MoreLabor Delegation Persuades John Murtha To Co-Sponsor HR 676
After meeting with western Pennsylvania labor leaders on June 29, Representative John Murtha agreed to sign on as a co-sponsor of HR 676, national single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Eighty-five House members, in addition to Conyers, now have their names on HR 676. Murtha, who has represented Pennsylvania’s 12th…
Read MoreFormer Insurance Industry Insider on Profits Before Patients
With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform. Watch the full interview here. Or watch this opening clip.
Read MoreUSW president supports single-payer health care (Video)
Leo Gerard: I think we should fight for single-payer health care, fight for a principled position Paul Jay speaks to Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers’ union about his fight for single-payer health care reform and the unionization legislation. Gerard says that, “the unions are first and foremost going to be very active in…
Read MoreFormer Health Insurance Exec. on Bill Moyers this Week
This week on the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Wendell Potter, former health insurance industry executive turned health care reform advocate. Potter discusses what he calls the hijacking of health care by insurance companies and discusses the obstacles they present to health care reform. PBS hopes you’ll tune in and then weigh in at…
Read MoreFormer Capitol Hill Staff Hired by Healthcare Companies to Lobby Congress
The Washington Post produced a graphic on how the Congressional committees working on health reform legislation are being lobbied by people who use to work for them. According to the graphic, “nearly half of the former Capitol Hill aides hired by major health-care companies to lobby Congress during the first quarter of 2009 previously worked…
Read MoreCongress Needs to Protect Americans, Not Insurance Companies
By Mark Dunlea, Executive Director, Hunger Action Network of NYS – As Congress negotiates health care reform, Democratic leaders have put the interests of insurance companies ahead of the needs of American citizens. If Americans want an affordable, quality health care system that enables consumers to choose whom they receive health care services from, private…
Read MoreObama health czar directed firms in trouble
DeParle made millions from companies under federal investigation By Fred Schulte for MSNBC – Nancy-Ann DeParle, President Barack Obama’s health policy czar, served as a director of corporations that faced scores of federal investigations, whistleblower lawsuits and other regulatory actions, according to government records reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. Several of…
Read MorePuerto Rican doctors rally at White House, urge Obama to create pilot single-payer system on island
Public Citizen News Release – WASHINGTON — The Puerto Rico College of Physicians and Surgeons urged President Obama today to create a single-payer pilot program on the island, saying it is the best way to provide universal coverage to all of Puerto Rico’s 4 million residents. Members of the organization, which represents all 11,000 physicians…
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