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With Caravans and Cabarets Retirees Push for Single Payer

Today, September 13, 2010, Retirees for Single Payer Health Care will meet at 11:30 AM at UAW Local 22 (4300 Michigan Ave.) in Detroit to caravan to the office of Congressman John Dingell in Dearborn where they will demonstrate and seek to win Dingell’s support and co-sponsorship for HR 676, national single payer health care.…

Medicare for All T-Shirts Available Now

On October 2nd, thousands will march on Washington, DC for jobs, justice, peace, and education. Healthcare-NOW! will be there standing strong for improved Medicare for all, and we’re working hard to have thousands of people join us. We need your help to make this march a success! Buy a new Improved Medicare for All t-shirt…

Not Just Simpson, but Entire Deficit Commission Must Go

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katie Robbins, National Organizer, Healthcare NOW!, katie@healthcare-now.org, 330-618-6379 Kay Tillow, All Unions for Single-Payer Health Care, nursenpo@aol.com, 502-636-1551 Not Just Simpson, but Entire Deficit Commission Must Go September 8, 2010 (Philadelphia, PA) – After months of meetings behind closed doors, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, aka the Deficit…

Disband the Deficit Commission

Former Senator Alan Simpson, who called Social Security a milk cow with 310 million tits, clearly doesn’t have the facts on Social Security if he is implying we’re all milking the system. Simpson co-chairs the Commission with Erskine Bowles, who thinks the government is spending way too much, claiming, “All of our revenue is completely…

U.S. employers push increase in cost of healthcare onto workers

A new survey shows an average worker with a family plan pays nearly $4,000 a year, up 14% from 2009. Meanwhile, the average employer contribution to a family plan hasn’t increased at all. By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times – As employers struggle with rising healthcare costs and a sour economy, U.S. workers for…

2010 Healthcare-NOW! National Strategy Conference

Healthcare-NOW! 2010 National Strategy Conference November 13 and 14 Philadelphia, PA Join single-payer activists and supporters from all over the US in Philadelphia, PA to plan our strategy for 2011. By learning and sharing with one another we can build on the successes of the last year and develop the plan to win single-payer national…

Health reform puts women in harm’s way

By M. Tracey Brooks for the Times Union – The people of New York and the nation should be outraged at the sacrifices being made in health care reform to the detriment of women. After taking a major hit in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in March, women’s health care faced three…

Oregon to Look at Single-Payer Bill Next Session

Advocates for a dedicated tax to pay for basic health coverage want to introduce a single-payer bill next session By David Rosenfeld for The Lund Report – A loose coalition of single-payer advocates in Oregon has taken the first steps toward developing legislation for the 2011 session The bill would ultimately work in conjunction with…

Personal Cost of Current Health Care Policy

By Joan Brunwasser for OpEdNews – My guest today is Lynn Petrovich, a CPA and long-time advocate for universal health care. Welcome to OpEdNews, Lynn. You recently wrote an op ed piece about your own adventures in the health care system, “Hospital Accounting: It’s Complicated.” Up until a family member’s unscheduled visit to a local…

Health Care Advocates Ask Insurance Commissioners: Which Side Are You On?

By the Backbone Campaign – On Monday, August 16, a terrific creative action to challenge the collusion between corporate and elected power was organized by Backbone Campaign’s Roger Fulton with support from Jared Middle Calf and crew. We joined with collaborating Heath Care activists in a great demonstration outside the conference of the National Association…