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Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

By Isabel Macdonald for AlterNet – TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate. The debate about health reform is clearly in critical condition, with the prospects for President Barack Obama’s proposed “public option” looking increasingly uncertain. The U.S.…

Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now

By John Nichols for the Nation – It is unsettling to listen as President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi talk up a health-care reform “plan” that has yet to take shape in any realistic form. The vagueness on the part of the president and the speaker is, of course, intentional. Obama and Pelosi are still…

Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold

By Kip Sullivan for PNHP – The people who brought us the “public option” began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the “public option” resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you’ve got…

Obama Admits US Can’t Insure All Americans Without Single Payer (Video)

From Democracy Now! – Obama devoted most of his White House news conference to defend his push for healthcare reform. He acknowledged the US won’t be able to provide healthcare insurance to every American without adopting single payer, which his administration has opposed.

Why Obama’s Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer

By Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein for the Progressive – Once Congress finishes mandating that we all buy private health insurance, it can move on to requiring Americans to purchase other defective products. A Ford Pinto in every garage? Lead-painted toys for every child? Melamine-laced chow for every puppy? Private health insurance doesn’t work.…

President Obama’s Longtime Physician Opposes White House Health Plan, Advocates Single Payer (Video)

From Democracy Now! – Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama’s doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House. Today Dr. Scheiner is publicly opposing Obama’s health plan and is calling for a single-payer system.

Congress 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…

Obama 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…

Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate (Video)

Add your name to FAIR’s petition To address the public’s need for a “robust debate of health care issues and potential policies”, ABC recently aired a prime time town-hall meeting (6/24/09) on President Barack Obama’s health reform proposals. The forum was supposed to feature “questions from every single vantage point,” according to ABC host Diane…

Puerto 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…