Single-Payer News
How to Push Obama
The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare: the National Single-Payer Coalition is mentioned in this months issue of The Progressive Magazine in the following article by John Nichols. On November 4, the American people by a popular majority of more than eight million votes selected as their new President a Democratic contender who had been attacked…
Read MoreAmerica’s health-care famine is slowly killing us
Editorial Columnist Clark Newhall is a physician and attorney in Salt Lake City, as well as a single-payer activist and contributer to Healthcare-NOW! He writes an eloquent assessment of the severity of the failure of our health care system. Read on… January 3, 2009 Salt Lake City, “America’s health-care faminie is slowly killing us” We…
Read MoreTeen’s family sues Cigna over denied transplant
17-year-old leukemia patient died hours after insurance reversed refusal updated 6:32 p.m. ET, Fri., Dec. 26, 2008 LOS ANGELES – The family of a 17-year-old leukemia patient has sued health insurance giant Cigna Corp. for her death in 2007 after the company initially refused to pay for a liver transplant. The lawsuit filed last week…
Read MoreThere’s No Place Like Home for The Holidays, Until There is No Home
Donna Smith’s holiday message is featured on the front page of Common Dreams today. It is a message to all of us as we struggle to include health care for all as the basis of any economic recovery package: A little box arrived from Chicago last week to my temporary digs here in Washington, DC. Inside…
Read MoreMessage from Representative John Conyers
President-elect Barack Obama has set up a website to gather ideas from ordinary citizens on the most important issues facing our country. Obama wants to hear from you about health care. Now is our chance to show the president-elect the tremendous support nationwide for single payer health care. Show your support for single payer health care Single payer…
Read MoreHealth Care Series: 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care
Dr. Steve from the Daily Kos is starting a series of diaries to provide basic information regarding how the health care system works, basic health care economics, and other general background to health care reform, with a single payer focus. The goal is provide a broad background that is NOT driven by specific events, news,…
Read MoreHealthcare-NOW! Activist, Alison Landes, on the air
Yesterday, Alison Landes, a single-payer activist with Healthcare-NOW! and Floridians for Health Care was interviewed on WMNF 88.5 by Rob Lorei. Listen to the full show. The show’s topic was “Does the Nation Need Health Care Reform?” Excerpt from the show: Today we’ll talk about health care reform. It’s near the top of the agenda…
Read MoreMeet Dr. Quentin Young
For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Young, he has been a tireless advocate for single payer health care for over twenty years, but that is just one item on a CV that includes: – Practicing medicine for over sixty years (he’s recently retired) – President of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,(physicians who traveled…
Read MoreBlacking Out Single-Payer–And Killing The Auto Industry
By Jonathan Tasini— When the history of our current economic crisis is written, there will need to be a full chapter devoted to the willful ignorance or stupidity of the traditional media. Right before our eyes stands the solution to a huge chunk of our fiscal nightmare and a lifeline for the auto industry: single-payer…
Read MoreObama and Daschle should opt for single-payer
By Rose Ann DeMoro– Barack Obama needs to make good on his campaign pledge to reform health care. It is not enough to throw the issue off to former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on…
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