Single-Payer News
Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No
By David Swanson – Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings. According to…
Read MoreBaucus meets with single-payer advocates
Baucus soothes single-payer backers By Carrie Dudoff Brown for Politico – Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) told leading advocates of a government-financed health care system that he made a mistake by not giving their proposals more consideration in the reform debate, according to participants in a meeting Wednesday. He also vowed to use…
Read MoreConyers promises a fight to get health-care reform bill through Congress
By Tim Louis Macaluso for www.rochester-citynews.com – To the Baby Boomers who packed the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Eisenhart Auditorium last night, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) is something of a folk hero. He has pushed for health-care reform for more than a decade. In his soft-spoken Walt Disney-like voice, he said, “We’re at a…
Read MoreBaucus Battered By Voters For Health Care Stand
By Ryan Grim for Huffington-Post – Sen. Max Baucus got some not-so friendly advice from his Montana constituents last week as he works to reform the health care system: You’re doing it all wrong. Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee and the leader of reform efforts in the Senate, scheduled 20 town hall meetings…
Read MoreGot health care?
By Ricardo Kaulessar for Hudson Reporter – Jersey City resident Bill Armbruster was laid off in February from his job as editor of a newsletter called the Shipping Digest, but he got to keep his health plan until August of 2010. But he worries what will happen when his coverage expires. “If I try to…
Read MoreMass Single Payer Action at Blumenauer’s Office
By Single Payer Action – About 75 to 100 single payer activists surrounded Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s Portland, Oregon office this afternoon. The activists insisted that the Congressman from Oregon’s third district join 77 of his colleagues in the House and sign on to HR 676 – single payer legislation in the House of Representatives. The…
Read MoreBoth sides demonstrate in Grand Rapids over plan for single-payer national health system
By John Agar for The Grand Rapids Press – As a local organizer of Single Payer Michigan, Chris Silva led a rally Saturday outside the Federal Building to build support for a single-payer national health system and dispel what he considers half-truths. “(Opponents) kind of think what we’re talking about is socializing medicine, rationing healthcare,…
Read MoreHealth-care fight hits city streets
By Fran Quigley for Indystar.com – It had been a busy morning for Indiana health-care activists. Several folks associated with Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Care Plan had purchased WellPoint stock in order to gain the forum of the annual stockholders meeting, where they told the Indiana-based company leadership that for-profit health insurance companies are…
Read MoreRalliers: Cover everyone for less
By Mike Hall for cnonline.com – Calling the 83 people who sat on the statehouse lawn Saturday “the core activists” whose job will be to spread the message, David Goering and others urged support for a national single payer health insurance plan. Goering, medical director of the Health Care Access Clinic, served as master of…
Read MoreHealth Care Reform Rally Comes To Augusta
On the grounds of the State House the debate over Health Care Reform expanded this weekend. Congress will spend the next two months reviewing H.R. 676, the “Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act” and supporters around the Country are looking to gain momentum.
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