Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Reform’
What’s Next for Social Security and Medicare
Since the launch of Healthcare-NOW!’s newest campaign, Hands Off Our Medicare, thousands have joined with us to say, “No cuts to our social insurance programs – we must protect, improve, and expand them.” Meanwhile, members of the Deficit Commission have been locking out workers and insulting advocates for the elderly. In response, Healthcare-NOW! has called…
Read MoreAutism Speaks Vividly On Our Broken Healthcare System
Another essay by John “Hai” Knapp – There may be clips pasted from other two essays, “Needing Health Insurance and Having a Mild Disability” and “Why I Believe the Christians Should Call For Healthcare Reforms. This may initially be used to form a discussion on the Autism Speaks Social Network; but it may also try…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Report from One Nation Rally
On October 2nd, Healthcare-NOW! joined with tens of thousands of progressives to add the message that we still need health care reform and we want improved Medicare for All. The crowd was wildly in favor of our message. As single-payer advocates marched up and down the reflecting pool, people cheered for the doctors, nurses, and…
Read MoreThe Obama Health Plan Has Serious Threats to Medicare
By Michael Lyon, SF Gray Panthers – Obama’s Health Plan is fatally flawed because it uses insurance companies to deliver healthcare, but the Health Plan also directly threatens Medicare. People talk about “the healthcare crisis,” but actually there are two healthcare crises. For us, the healthcare crisis is 51 million uninsured, stripping workers’ health plans,…
Read MoreWhat if everyone had Medicare?
By Henry Abrons – The Census Bureau released its annual report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage in the United States earlier this month, and it’s no surprise to learn that we’re in bad shape. The number of people living in poverty was 43.6 million (14.3 percent), up sharply from 2008, and real per…
Read MoreAP Poll: Many think health overhaul should do more
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and JENNIFER AGIESTA for Associated Press – WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November. But the picture’s not that clear cut. A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should…
Read MoreBig health insurers to stop selling new child-only policies
Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna Inc. and others say they will make the move as soon as Thursday when parts of the new healthcare law take effect. They cite potentially huge and unexpected costs for insuring children. By Duke Helfand, Los Angeles Times – Major health insurance companies in California and other states have decided to…
Read MoreHow We’re Acting Upon SB 810
From Single Payer Now! – Last month, Assembly Speaker John Perez (D46) made the decision to prevent SB 810 from going up for a vote. Had he done so, and it passed, SB 810 would have moved through to the Governor’s desk, where Schwarzenegger would have vetoed it, as he has done twice before when…
Read MoreThe Persecution of Kate Barnhart
From Out in New Jersey – DA Prosecuting LGBT Activist with Brain Tumor The sidewalk outside of the Manhattan Criminal Court building was a surreal sea of “Kate.” Supporters in all sizes and shapes donned Kate Barnhart masks, effigies of the selfless and tireless patron of homeless youth and health care activist who is now…
Read MoreNumber of uninsured skyrockets 4.3 million to record 50.7 million in 2009
By PNHP – Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing a dramatic spike of 4.3 million in the number of Americans without health insurance in 2009 – to a record 50.7 million – underscore the urgency of going beyond the Obama administration’s new health law and swiftly implementing a single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all program, according to…
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