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Onward to Medicare for All

While many celebrate the passage of the health bill, Healthcare-NOW! remains committed to building the movement for the health care we need in an expanded and improved Medicare-for-all system. The new health bill closely resembles the legislation written by Liz Fowler, former Vice President of Public Policy for Well Point, one of the nation’s largest…

Health Care: What Did We Get? Where Are We? And, Where Do We Go From Here?

By Kevin Zeese for Prosperity Agenda – A year ago health care was in crisis. Its cost burdened individuals, businesses, and all levels of government. Americans were dying at a rate of 45,000 per year due to lack of access to health care, health care bankruptcies were rising. Change was urgently needed. The crisis was…

Progressives debate health care “victory” (Video)

From the Real News Network – On Tuesday, President Obama signed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The bill has been proclaimed historic, and the media, following administration’s lead, called the House vote a victory. But supporters of the health reform are divided on the merits of the legislation. A day before the…

Diary of a Wimpy Health Care Bill

By Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive Director, National Nurses United – Passage of President Obama’s healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance bill, can we move on to healthcare reform? As an organization of registered nurses, we have an obligation…

Medicare-for-All Advocates Say Bill Fails to Meet Needs of People

New York, NY – On Tuesday, President Obama signed the health reform bill into law. This bill closely resembles the legislation written by Liz Fowler, former Vice President of Public Policy for Well Point, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. Healthcare-NOW!, a national organization supporting expanded and improved Medicare for all, points out…

A Cloward-Piven Strategy for Single Payer?

By Chris Maisano for The Activist – With yesterday’s passage in the House of the Obama administration’s health care reform bill, it would seem at first glance that the movement for national, single-payer health insurance has been seriously derailed. After all, if all of the hype and adulation surrounding the bill’s passage is to be…

Single Payer Legislation vs. Reconciliation Bill

Physicians for a National Health Program recently released a comparison of single-payer healthcare and the bill that the House just passed. You can download the one-page handout here.

Listen: Discussing the Health Bill and the Individual Mandate

If you missed last night’s national conference call on the recently passed health bill and the individual mandate, you can listen to it here. We had about 250 people on this call, and we’d like to thank you for participating, and donating. This call’s success means that we can keep organizing national conference calls in…

A false promise of reform

Pro-single-payer doctors: Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured The following statement was released today by leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org. Their signatures appear below. As much as we would like to join the celebration of the House’s passage of the health bill last night, in good conscience we cannot. We take…

Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill

Firedoglake released this fact sheet that exposes some myths about the bill passed on Sunday. By Jane Hamsher for Firedoglake – The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in congress since it began last year. The health care bill will come up for a vote in the House on Sunday, and as…