Posts Tagged ‘health care’
Plan Actions for Human Rights Day on December 10th
We are moving forward. After a great meeting in St. Louis (comprehensive report back coming soon!), we want to make sure you have the most up-to-date talking points on the legislation and our movement! 1) Find PNHP NY Metro Chapter talking points on the most recent legislative developments including the public option, the abortion amendments,…
Read MorePHIMG Stays On The Move
From the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition – On Tuesday, Nov. 17, during the evening rush-hour, two dozen activists organized by the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG) demonstrated peacefully in Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal to demand “Medicare for all.” A broad cross section of people: workers, the middle class, the disabled, immigrants,…
Read MoreCall Today: Support Single-Payer and Women’s Rights in the Senate
The health care struggle is far from over, and we have to fight to protect our rights every step of the way. For all the flaws we see in the House legislation, all indicators show that the Senate legislation will be worse. We have two messages for our Senators. Restore reproductive rights to the current…
Read MoreSitting in for Healthcare
A new group takes the fight for a single-payer system directly to insurers—and politicians. By Diana Novak for In These Times – Since September 29, when Mobilization for Health Care for All organized its first sit-in at health insurer Aetna’s New York City offices (led by the Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition), more than…
Read MoreHealthcare-NOW!’s Response to Passage of House Health Bill
On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to much celebration by the Democratic party. Healthcare-NOW!’s view, however, is that the House bill is a gift to the insurance industry at the further expense of the people of this nation. The bill’s advocates claim it will…
Read MoreStudy: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance
From Democracy Now – On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under…
Read MoreHealth Care Advocates Remain in Jail, Take Action To Support their Cause Now
On Thursday, Mobilization for Health Care for All made another urgent demand to get insurance money out of our democracy so that real reform will not be blocked in America. It is unacceptable that 45,000 Americans die every year because of lack of access to health care. Nine advocates for Medicare for All were arrested…
Read MoreIs the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
By Marcia Angell, M.D. for Huffington Post – Well, the House health reform bill — known to Republicans as the Government Takeover — finally passed after one of Congress’s longer, less enlightening debates. Two stalwarts of the single-payer movement split their votes; John Conyers voted for it; Dennis Kucinich against. Kucinich was right. Conservative rhetoric…
Read MoreStatement on the Withdrawal of Rep. Weiner’s Single-Payer Amendment to House Bill
Dear Healthcare-NOW! Supporter: On the eve of what could have been the first vote on single-payer legislation in our nation’s history, we have just learned that because of last minute developments, the vote and debate on Congressman Weiner’s single-payer amendment will not happen. Speaker Pelosi received a statement from Rep. Kucinich and Rep. Conyers, the…
Read MoreAction Alert: 9 people arrested at Sen Lieberman’s office!
Dozens of people held a sit-in at Senator Lieberman’s Capitol Hill office this morning to demand that Senator Lieberman pledge to stop taking health insurance company campaign contributions and free up funds so they can be used to pay for patient care. For 30 minutes, demonstrators requested to talk to Senator Lieberman and chanted “Patients…
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