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Rose Ann DeMoro: There’s a Conspiracy of Silence Against Single Payer!

Rose Ann DeMoro is the executive director of the California Nurses Association and a National V.P. of the AFL-CIO. On June 3, 2009, she spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference called by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare System. Ms. DeMoro said: “There is a conspiracy of silence”…

Nurses and Doctors Call for “Florence Nightingale Day Protest,” May 12

Nurses and Doctors Call for “Florence Nightingale Day Protest” Against Max Baucus and Health Insurers: May 12 Baucus Again Calls Senate Finance Hearing Without Information on “The Nurses’ and Doctors’ Plan” for Healthcare Reform: Single-Payer Healthcare. What: Activist registered nurses and physicians are calling for a “Florence Nightingale Day Protest” against Sen. Max Baucus and…

White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs

By Jamie Court for the Huffington Post— “Prevention” was the word of morning at the White House Western forum on health care reform in downtown LA. Led by Oprah’s Dr. Oz, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Washington State Governor Chris Gregoire, the assembled “stakeholders” rattled off how prevention pays in health care. 20% of the patients…

Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum

But the White House-organized event is light on details. By Lisa Girion and Noam Levey for the LA Times— Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — Even as President Obama toured Europe his administration pressed its healthcare reform campaign Monday in Los Angeles with a forum co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who lost his bid…

Single-Payer Health Push Rallies Behind Conyers

As Obama prepares to take office, many women’s advocates are backing a single-payer health insurance reform championed by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. With so many Americans uninsured and underinsured, it’s “past time for change” says Conyers. In December, President-elect Barack Obama invited Americans to hold more than 4,000 “health care house parties” and discuss medical…

CNA President, Deborah Burger, Interview on Obama’s and McCain’s Healthcare Plans

The Real News Network recently interviewed Deborah Burger, President of the California Nurses Association (CNA), about the presidential candidates’ healthcare plans and why single-payer is the real solution to America’s healthcare crisis. Part 1 Part 2