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A singular solution for healthcare

By Judy Norsigian and Jennifer Potter for the Boston Globe – A single-payer healthcare system would more effectively control costs than any other plan that Congress is considering as it moves toward a reform bill. And by controlling costs, existing resources could be allocated more equitably, especially for the benefit of women. First, single-payer plans…

Insurance interests total 1/4 of Baucus’ fundraising

By Mike Dennison for the Montana Standard – As Sen. Max Baucus has taken the lead on health-reform legislation in the U.S. Senate, he’s also become a leader in something else: Campaign money received from health- and insurance-industry interests. In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Baucus, D-Mont., and his…

Single payer: bold, affordable, humane

[The following is the testimony of Dr. Walter Tsou to the House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions on June 10. The hearing was titled “Examining the single-payer health care option.”] By Walter Tsou, M.D., M.P.H. of PNHP – Congressman Andrews and members of the HELP subcommittee, my name is Dr. Walter Tsou. I…

Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option (Video)

Video of the testimony of Marcia Angell, M.D., Geri Jenkins, R.N., Walter Tsou, M.D., M.P.H. at a hearing examining the Single Payer Health Care Option on June 10, 2009.

Watch the Single-Payer Hearing in House, Wed. June 10

The Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee of the House Education & Labor Committee will hold a hearing titled “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” this Wednesday, June 10th at 10:30 am in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. For those of you who would like to attend in person and can make…

Action Alert: Ask Your Rep. to Attend Healthcare Financing Briefing

Please ask your Representative to attend this important Congressional Briefing on financing expanded healthcare. If you know your representative, call 866-338-1015 for the Capital Switchboard. If not, visit votesmart.org to find out. Either way, you can easily email them here. How Do We Pay For It? Options for Financing Expanded Health Care Single-Payer or a…

Action Alert: Help Get Single-Payer Hearings in Congress

The House will release healthcare legislation very soon, and the draft bill could even come out next week. From there the bill will go to Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and the Ways and Means committees for debate. We need you to call, fax, or visit four Congresssperson’s offices ASAP to make sure that…

Rose Ann DeMoro: There’s a Conspiracy of Silence Against Single Payer!

Rose Ann DeMoro is the executive director of the California Nurses Association and a National V.P. of the AFL-CIO. On June 3, 2009, she spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference called by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare System. Ms. DeMoro said: “There is a conspiracy of silence”…

Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No

By David Swanson – Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings. According to…

Conyers promises a fight to get health-care reform bill through Congress

By Tim Louis Macaluso for www.rochester-citynews.com – To the Baby Boomers who packed the Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Eisenhart Auditorium last night, Representative John Conyers (D-MI) is something of a folk hero. He has pushed for health-care reform for more than a decade. In his soft-spoken Walt Disney-like voice, he said, “We’re at a…