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Put single-payer on the table

Editorial: Times Union (Albany, NY), May 19th, 2009 Earlier this month, eight courageous doctors, lawyers and other activists interrupted a Senate Finance Committee meeting on health care reform to ask why there wasn’t one advocate of a single-payer health care system at the table. Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, had them arrested. Shame on…

Nation needs health care plan based on Social Security, Medicare models

By Helen Thomas – Americans can be thankful for two humanitarian presidents whose legacies stand as emblems of caring values that enrich us as a nation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won passage of the Social Security Act in 1935 and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare legislation in 1965. Social Security and Medicare work beautifully…

Middle Class Healthcare Reform? Bend Over…

By Donna Smith – It’s coming. You and me and every middle class, working person in this nation is about to start handing over more and more of their hard earned cash to the private insurance industry, courtesy of our own elected members of Congress and our very popular President. Fire up those Treasury Department…

Montana AFL-CIO State Convention Reaffirms Endorsement of HR 676

The 53rd Annual Montana AFL-CIO State Convention reaffirmed its previous endorsement of HR 676, single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The Montana AFL-CIO endorsed HR 676 for the first time at its 2008 Convention. This year’s Convention resolution resolved “that the Montana State AFL-CIO reaffirms its endorsement of and commitment…

Open Letter to the President from the Canadian Health Coalition

Dear Mr. President: As the national voice for Canadians who want to protect and expand our national public healthcare system, the Canadian Health Coalition would like to encourage your efforts to make health care available and affordable for all Americans. Canada’s national Medicare system is one that all Canadians value and depend on for quality…

Diane Rehm Show on Single-Payer

Proponents of a single-payer plan argue it is the best solution for the nation’s health-care system. But chances of such a program making it into law appear remote. How a single-payer plan might work and why it faces an uphill battle in Congress. Guests Roger Hickey, Co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future Dr. David…

Healthcare-NOW! on Uprising Radio

Healthcare-NOW!’s Katie Robbins was interviewed on Uprising Radio last week. You can hear the segment below, or listen to the full episode here. Listen Here

Green Party endorses national Day of Action for Single-Payer health care on May 30

The Green Party of the United States has endorsed the national Day of Action for Single-Payer national health care (Medicare For All) on Saturday, May 30. The Day of Action is being organized by Healthcare-Now and other groups dedicated to winning a health care system that covers all Americans, providing treatment regardless of employment, income,…

Baucus’ Raucous Caucus

By Amy Goodman for Truthdig— Barack Obama appeared this week with health-industry bigwigs, proclaiming light at the end of the health-care tunnel. Among those gathered were executives from HMO giants Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Health Net Inc., and the health-insurance lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans; from the American Hospital Association and the American…

Massachusetts Voters Say YES to Single-Payer Healthcare, and NO to Mandates

From MassCare.org: Dear Single Payer Supporters – In an election that has brought out the highest voter turnout in Massachusetts probably since 1928, local ballot initiatives supporting single payer and opposing individual mandates passed by landslide margins in all ten legislative districts where they appeared. With almost all precincts tallied, roughly 73 percent of 181,000…