Posts Tagged ‘Action Alert’
Hands Off Our Medicare!
At a time when this nation faces the deepest recession in decades, skyrocketing unemployment, and fiscal crisis in our states, towns, and families, the nation’s safety net is threatened by a select group whose overwhelming majority have historically favoured cutting benefits or privatizing federal social programs in order to balance the budget and enriching the…
Read MoreSpeak Up for Medicare and Social Security
For decades, Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has been trying to privatize or get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Now he is funding AmericaSpeaks, a private company that is organizing town hall meetings with citizens across the country on Saturday, June 26th. Pete Peterson wants to use these meetings to shape the national discussion…
Read MoreHands Off Medicare and Social Security!
In the name of “fiscal balance,” President Obama’s Debt Commission is pushing for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Ignoring the hundreds of billions of dollars the country could save by implementing a national single-payer healthcare system, they’re threatening the a true safety net our most vulnerable Americans can rely on. We are joining Progressive…
Read MoreAt the US Social Forum
Are you planning to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit from June 22nd to 26th? If so, we hope you will join Healthcare-NOW! at the USSF events below! Workshop: Single- Payer Healthcare, the Solution to the Health Care Crisis Thursday, June 24th, 10am – 12pm, UAW Building, 151 West Jefferson, PRES (Note Location Change)…
Read MoreAction Alert: End WellPoint’s Greed
On May 18th, Dr. Rob Stone plans to deliver a resolution to WellPoint/Anthem, the largest health insurance company in the US, calling for it to return to its charitable, non-profit roots at their upcoming shareholder meeting in Indianapolis. WellPoint, like all health insurance companies in the nation, is a parasitic middleman that enriches its executives…
Read MoreAction Alert: Save Primary Care at St. John’s
Dr. George Randt and his colleague are board-certified internists who have had a contractual relationship with St. John Medical Center covering some 2,500 patients for several years. These two doctors have excellent records with the hospital, high patient satisfaction and retention rates, and have never had an unfavorable review. This past month they were notified…
Read MoreTONIGHT: Let’s Discuss the Fair Elections Now Act
TONIGHT, April 22, join Healthcare-NOW! for a discussion with leading advocates of the Fair Elections Now Act at 8pm Eastern. Featured speakers include: Frank Kirkwood of CitizenFundedElections.org and the Western PA Coalition for Single-Payer Health Care Chris Melody Fields, Common Cause’s Director of Outreach Moderated by: Katie Robbins, National Organizer for Healthcare-NOW! Here is the…
Read MoreThursday: Let’s Discuss the Fair Elections Now Act
While single-payer is the most popular reform in polling of the public, physicians and nurses, it was largely “off the table” in Congress during the reform debate. It is clear that members of Congress, of both parties, are dependent on campaign money from the industries that benefit most from preserving the current broken health care…
Read MoreArrested Single-Payer Activists on FRONTLINE
Nearly one year ago, doctors, nurses, and single-payer advocates stood up in the Senate Finance Committee hearing led by Senator Max Baucus to protest the exclusion of single-payer advocates from the discussion. One by one they were arrested. Now, FRONTLINE examines the writing of a healthcare bill by a corporate-controlled Congress. In Obama’s Deal, airing…
Read MoreMarch to Fulfill the Dream: New Orleans to Detroit!
On April 4th, 2010 poor people and their allies will unite with the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) to advance Dr. King’s dream of ending poverty. The March to Fulfill the Dream will visit dozens of cities between New Orleans and Detroit, the site of the US Social Forum 2010, to highlight the…
Read More