Healthcare-NOW

A Month of Single-Payer Action

For the first time ever, single-payer legislation will be debated and voted on by Congress in September. The day after thousands of grassroots activists rallied in Washinton, DC for national healthcare on Medicare’s 44th birthday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY-9) introduced an amendment to President Obama’s healthcare reform bill (HR 3200) to replace it with HR…

Action Alert: Remote Area Medical Visits LA

In a stark reminder for the overwhelming need for universal healthcare in the US, thousands of Americans in Los Angeles, CA are lining up this weekend to receive free healthcare provided by a relief organization called Remote Area Medical. If you need care, go. All the information you need is here. Either way, ask your…

Healthcare Debate Heats Up

Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines looks at the US health care system, expose its cracks, and uncover the forces that are spending millions of dollars every day to influence the debate over the US health care reform. Part One Part Two

Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates

The corporate ties between insurers and media companies By Kate Murphy for FAIR – How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put some of the people they work for out of business? That’s the conflict of interest that journalists reporting on the healthcare reform debate are often put in by the…

A Single Payer Possibility (video)

From GRITtv – We’ve all heard the story about Medicare. That once upon a time, about 40 years ago, it was an idea that had very little support and that many said would never succeed. Well, it did and many are saying it should serve as a model for a single payer healthcare system. With…

Report Card on Single-Payer and Public Option

Healthcare-NOW!, along with Progressive Democrats of America, has produced a report card that compares single-payer healthcare with President Obama’s “public option” proposal currently being debated in the House and Senate. Please feel free to download and distribute the two-page report card. Report Card on Single-Payer and “Public Option” (.pdf)

Comparing Single-Payer with the Public Option

There has been considerable confusion about the differences between single-payer healthcare, which Healthcare-NOW! supports, and the healthcare reform options, including President Obama’s “public option,” being introduced by the House and Senate. So we’ve collected the following resources to clarify the difference: Report Card for Single-Payer and “Public Option” (.pdf) More of the Same Is Not…

Report on Medicare’s 44th Birthday, July 30, 2009

Over one thousand single-payer activists descended on Capitol Hill on July 30th, 2009 to celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday as concurrent actions planned across the country and on the Hill culminated to pay great tribute to the nation’s most popular social program that is indeed the largest single-payer in the country of hospitals and doctors. The…

The Mad As Hell Doctors Road Tour

On September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care “on the road” in a wrapped and branded Motor Home headed for Washington D.C. to support single-payer healthcare. From their website: There’s no nice way to say it. The financial cost of health care is killing our…

Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever

By John Nichols for the Nation – How should serious supporters of health-care reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow “debate” between “party of no” Republicans who favor no reform at all, and Blue Dog Democrats, whose “reform” is to make a bad system worse. And not by campaigning…