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Cigna Gives $110.9 Million Compensation Package To Ex-CEO

By Sam Stein for Huffington Post – The insurance giant Cigna last year gave compensation packages worth more than $120 million to two executives who left the company, according to a filing with the SEC on Friday. The vast majority of that total went to former chairman and CEO H. Edward Hanway who left his…

Monday Night: Let’s Discuss the Health Bill

Join Healthcare-NOW! for a conference call exposing the last minute negotiations of the health care bill and the ramifications of the mandate to purchase private insurance when public programs like Medicaid and Medicare suffer. The conference call is tomorrow, Monday, March 22nd at 8 PM EST. Guest speakers include: – Michael Lighty, Policy Director for…

Dennis Kucinich and Ralph Nader: A Discussion on Healthcare, Politics and Reform

From Democracy Now! – Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio announced on Wednesday he would switch his vote on the Democrat-led healthcare reform bill and support the legislation even though it does not create a public option. Kucinich’s decision came two days after he spoke with President Obama aboard Air Force One on their way to…

Kucinich’s Healthcare Sell-out

by Billy Wharton – The Obama administration cracked a tough nut today in their relentless drive to sponsor a corporate restructuring of the American healthcare system. Dennis Kucinich, who had been one of the few voices of opposition to the faulty healthcare “reform,” announced today that he intend to vote “Yes” on the healthcare bill…

On Grayson’s “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act”

PNHP’s Response to Grayson’s Public Option Act Congressman Alan Grayson Press Release March 9, 2010 Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., today introduced a bill (H.R. 4789) which would give the option to buy into Medicare to every citizen of the United States. The “Public Option Act,” also known as the “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act,”…

Last 24 Hours to Vote for Medicare for All

Recently, President Obama spoke at to a large group of mostly supportive students and local residents at Arcadia University in Glenside. The president at one point mentioned that “people on the left” want “single-payer.” But before he could add that that approach wasn’t going to happen, he found himself drowned out by cheers calling for…

No Insurance Company Left Behind

By Katie Robbins – On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest” of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health insurance industry’s leading lobbying group, in Washington, DC. Thousands came out to support this action, and rightfully so. There is no other…

Maine AFL-CIO Organizes Single Payer Education Program

One state AFL-CIO is actively trying to build the social movement necessary to pass single payer legislation such as HR 676. The Maine AFL-CIO takes its lead from resolution 34 passed at the September National AFL-CIO convention. Recently, The Maine state AFL-CIO has developed a number of materials, including a power point presentation, leaflets, cost…

Become a Healthcare-NOW! Member Today

The Healthcare-NOW! network has grown tremendously over the past year. New single-payer coalitions and groups are forming all over the country, and more individuals are becoming involved in our work. To keep up, Healthcare-NOW! must expand our capacity and resources to continue building the movement for meaningful reform that will end our healthcare crisis. That’s…

Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payer

By Matthew Rothschild for the Progressive – When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system. He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system…