Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
US Healthcare History: Our Very Own Killing Fields
By Donna Smith – Jenny Fritts was 24 years old. Jenny lived with her husband Sean for the past five years, and together they had a little girl named Kylee, 2. Jenny was seven-and-a-half months pregnant with her second child – a beautiful, baby girl. Jenny is dead. Jenny’s unborn baby is dead. They died…
Read MoreDC Lobby Days for Single-Payer This Week
Join us for Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care lobby days for single-payer. On both lobby days, we will break into teams and visit Congressional offices with single-payer amendment materials prepared in advance. As Congress moves closer to voting on whatever final legislation is crafted, we want to make sure the single-payer amendments are strongly…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Protest at Fox TV (Video)
The Westside Progressives give their views on the single payer plan infront of Fox Tv LA.
Read MoreSingle payer MD’s not invited to White House (Video)
The President meets with doctors who support his reforms but excludes MD’s who support “medicare for all.”
Read MoreDocs as Props
By SinglePayerAction.org – In the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama met with a group of doctors. From all fifty states. Banned from the meeting were doctors from Physicians for a National Health Program — representing more than 17,000 docs who support a single payer health care system. Those doctors were not invited to attend.…
Read More‘Mad Docs’ crash White House party
By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter – President Barack Obama assembled more than 100 doctors outside the White House on Monday morning to enlist the medical profession’s backing for his proposed health care reforms. But at least one attending physician was there to express a dissenting opinion. Dr. Paul Hochfeld crashed the Rose Garden party in…
Read MoreMad as Hell Doc on the Ed Show
Mad-As-Hell Doctors’ Dr. Paul Hochfeld visits the Ed Show. Says, “Public option is dead; Single-Payer or bust!”
Read MoreMichael Moore marches to his movie
From www.post-gazette.com – See video here. In-your-face filmmaker Michael Moore came to Pittsburgh instead of Hollywood last night to show his latest rabble-rousing documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story” to its first American audience, a spirited group of union workers energized by the AFL-CIO convention Downtown. A last-minute change of plans and an invitation from the…
Read MoreMad-As-Hell Doctors On Cross-Country Tour with a Mission
By Michele Swenson for the Huffington Post – They have been ostracized and marginalized in the great U.S. health care reform debate, but now a group of doctors, many from Physicians for a National Health Care Program, are hitting the road and taking action, and they visited Denver on September 14. They will arrive in…
Read MoreBuilding on the Hopeful Aspects of Obama’s Health Care Speech and Helping Him Get Beyond His Internal Contradictions
By Rabbi Michael Lerner for Tukkin Daily – Media analyses of President Obama’s health care speech were divided on whether he had indicated serious support for a public option or had, instead, cleverly tossed a bone of “recognition” to the progressives while simultaneously demanding that they drop their insistence that the health care reform undercut…
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