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US slips to 49th in life expectancy

By Sahil Kapur for RawStory.com – The United States currently ranks 49th in the world in overall life expectancy, according to a study published in the academic journal Health Affairs, slipping dramatically during the last decade. “As of September 23, 2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth for both male and female life expectancy combined,” concludes…

Rally for Healthcare Sanity

Have you heard? On October 30th, Jon Stewart is organizing a rally in Washington DC to “restore sanity,” while Stephen Colbert is organizing a counter demo to “keep fear alive.” Sounds a little bit like Healthcare-NOW!’s campaign to implement a national universal healthcare system as the only sane answer to our healthcare crisis. Yet, corporate…

Upcoming Deadline for Strategy Conference

Our National Strategy Conference is rapidly approaching on November 13th and 14th in Philadelphia, PA. If you haven’t registered yet, please do soon. The deadline for reserving a hotel room, at a discounted rate, near the conference location is October 27th. That’s next Wednesday. So if you haven’t already, please register for the conference ASAP.…

The Midterm Elections and Medicare For All

By Dr. Quentin Young – As we approach Nov. 2, it’s fair to say that in many ways the distortion of political discourse in our country has never been worse. Extreme right-wing personalities – reincarnated Know-Nothings – are elbowing their way into the nightly airwaves via paid advertisements and Fox News. Billionaires are lavishly funding…

Braddocks Fights for its Hospital

By Kay Tillow – Braddock, the home of many a working class battle, now fights to save its hospital, the best building in town, from the wrecker’s ball. Braddock, Pennsylvania, the site of the US Steel’s Edgar Thompson Works, lies along the north bank of the Monongahela just up the river from Pittsburgh. Braddock’s story…

How Health Reform will Lead to Single Payer

There are a lot of opinions about the new law and what that means for single-payer health care. Healthcare-NOW! staff is really interested in hearing your opinions on this new article from Tikkun. By Lauren Reichelt for Tikkun – This week I am in Denver at a different kind of Health Care Reform rally. Community…

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…

Autism 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…

Single-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…

What 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…