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Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No

By David Swanson – Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings. According to…

Conyers promises a fight to get health-care reform bill through Congress

By Tim Louis Macaluso for www.rochester-citynews.com – To the Baby Boomers who packed the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Eisenhart Auditorium last night, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) is something of a folk hero. He has pushed for health-care reform for more than a decade. In his soft-spoken Walt Disney-like voice, he said, “We’re at a…

Baucus Battered By Voters For Health Care Stand

By Ryan Grim for Huffington-Post – Sen. Max Baucus got some not-so friendly advice from his Montana constituents last week as he works to reform the health care system: You’re doing it all wrong. Baucus, the chair of the Finance Committee and the leader of reform efforts in the Senate, scheduled 20 town hall meetings…

Got health care?

By Ricardo Kaulessar for Hudson Reporter – Jersey City resident Bill Armbruster was laid off in February from his job as editor of a newsletter called the Shipping Digest, but he got to keep his health plan until August of 2010. But he worries what will happen when his coverage expires. “If I try to…

Mass Single Payer Action at Blumenauer’s Office

By Single Payer Action – About 75 to 100 single payer activists surrounded Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s Portland, Oregon office this afternoon. The activists insisted that the Congressman from Oregon’s third district join 77 of his colleagues in the House and sign on to HR 676 – single payer legislation in the House of Representatives. The…

Both sides demonstrate in Grand Rapids over plan for single-payer national health system

By John Agar for The Grand Rapids Press – As a local organizer of Single Payer Michigan, Chris Silva led a rally Saturday outside the Federal Building to build support for a single-payer national health system and dispel what he considers half-truths. “(Opponents) kind of think what we’re talking about is socializing medicine, rationing healthcare,…

Health-care fight hits city streets

By Fran Quigley for Indystar.com – It had been a busy morning for Indiana health-care activists. Several folks associated with Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Care Plan had purchased WellPoint stock in order to gain the forum of the annual stockholders meeting, where they told the Indiana-based company leadership that for-profit health insurance companies are…

Ralliers: Cover everyone for less

By Mike Hall for cnonline.com – Calling the 83 people who sat on the statehouse lawn Saturday “the core activists” whose job will be to spread the message, David Goering and others urged support for a national single payer health insurance plan. Goering, medical director of the Health Care Access Clinic, served as master of…

Eric Massa: The Single Payer Moment (video)

Eric Massa of New York’s 29th District has been making the case for single payer healthcare. The advice he was given when he decided to run for congress was, “don’t do it.” As a first year congressman he’s been advised not to take a stand, especially on a hot button issue like healthcare. But rather…

Health care activists lament single-payer snub

By Victoria Colliver for the San Francisco Chronicle – Frustrated by the exclusion of government-financed medical care from the debate to revamp the nation’s troubled health system, advocates of a “single-payer” plan are increasingly turning to demonstrations and civil disobedience as a way to get their message across. During Senate Finance Committee hearings May 5…