Posts Tagged ‘Healthcare Reform’
7 Arrested in Chicago Demanding Single Payer Healthcare
Seven citizens and healthcare providers who are fed up with the state of our healthcare and the healthcare debate were arrest at the downtown offices of Cigna today. The sit-in is part of a national mobilization to end insurance abuse and build support for real reform – Medicare for All, a single-payer plan. ChiSPAN, the…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Protest at Fox TV (Video)
The Westside Progressives give their views on the single payer plan infront of Fox Tv LA.
Read MoreSingle payer MD’s not invited to White House (Video)
The President meets with doctors who support his reforms but excludes MD’s who support “medicare for all.”
Read MoreDocs as Props
By SinglePayerAction.org – In the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama met with a group of doctors. From all fifty states. Banned from the meeting were doctors from Physicians for a National Health Program — representing more than 17,000 docs who support a single payer health care system. Those doctors were not invited to attend.…
Read More‘Mad Docs’ crash White House party
By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter – President Barack Obama assembled more than 100 doctors outside the White House on Monday morning to enlist the medical profession’s backing for his proposed health care reforms. But at least one attending physician was there to express a dissenting opinion. Dr. Paul Hochfeld crashed the Rose Garden party in…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Protest Interrupts Senate Health Care Bill Markup
By Rachel Weiner for the Huffington Post – Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not under consideration — a single-payer health care plan. “We are speaking for single-payer … good senators would vote for single payer. Please…
Read MoreWhy the Current Bills Don’t Solve Our Health Care Crisis
By Rose Ann DeMoro & Michael Moore – Now we know why they’ve stopped calling this health care reform, and started calling it insurance reform. The current bills advancing in Congress look more like rearranging the deck chairs on the insurance Titanic than actually ending our long health care nightmare. Some laudable elements are in…
Read MoreSit-in today at Aetna office in New York to demand an end to insurance company abuse
17 citizens and health care providers arrested, launching national mobilization for health care for all New York, NY – Citizens and health care providers today staged a sit-in at the offices of Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, in New York City (99 Park Ave @ 40th). The action is part of…
Read MoreAs Senate Panel Debates Public Option, Groups Take Direct Action to Promote Single Payer
From Democracy Now! – As debate continues over healthcare reform on Capitol Hill, we hear from two groups taking action to call for a single-payer system: Mad As Hell Doctors, who have been driving across the country in the lead-up to a rally tomorrow in Washington, DC, and Mobilization for Health Care for All, which…
Read MoreTime for Civil Disobedience
We need your support for a new campaign of non-violent, civil disobedience targeting the private health insurance industry. This past spring, 13 brave individuals were arrested for disrupting Senate Finance hearings on health reform, chaired by Sen. Max Baucus. They were disgusted with witness panels, filled with private insurance execs and their cronies, that did…
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