Healthcare-NOW

Action Alert: Stand With Kate

Two weeks ago we sent an action alert about the unfair targeting of activists in New York City. The response was tremendous. Hundreds of people made calls last week and successfully pressured the DA’s office to take the unusual step of inviting Kate Barnhart and her lawyer to a 40-minute meeting. One can hardly find…

Single-Payer is Inevitable

Progressives and Conservatives Agree By Rob Stone, MD – “The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government as the ‘single payer.’” – George Will, in his weekly newspaper column, Sunday July 11, 2010 Everyone loves to pick on the Affordable Care Act…

The Happy Dance of Richard Kirsch

From CorrentWire.com – Every once in a while, Richard Kirsch, does a “happy dance” article celebrating his own Health Care for America Now campaign for health care reform, whose outcome of course was the wonderful bill legislated by the Congress last Spring. Kirsch, who is now a Senior Fellow at The Roosevelt Institute, posted his…

Action Alert: Social Security turns 75 on August 14th!

Social Security turns 75 on August 14th! Join the Alliance for Retired Americans in celebrations and actions (.pdf) across the country. In its 75 years of existence, Social Security has not added a cent to our country’s budget deficit. Nevertheless, even as the baby boomers begin to retire, some fiscal conservatives have labeled Social Security…

Karaoke Benefit Friday Night

Healthcare-NOW! is throwing an awesome benefit karaoke night. Come join us on Friday, August 13 at 7pm. We will be singing the night away at the William Way Center, 1315 Spruce Street in Philadelphia, PA (map). We’re near the Walnut-Locust stop on SEPTA and the 12th and Locust stop on PATCO. Or, if you can’t…

August Single-Payer Update

Healthcare-NOW! is committed to educating, advocating and agitating for the universal, equitable, and humane health care system we truly need – improved Medicare for All. Find out about some of the activism that continues to build the movement: 1. See our roundup of Medicare’s 45th Birthday events from all over the country. Congratulations to all…

Remembering Marilyn Clement

One year ago today, Marilyn Clement, founder and National Coordinator of Healthcare-NOW!, passed away surrounded by her children, Scott and Pam, her daughter-in-law Liz, and the caring thoughts of all of us who knew her, worked with her, and had come to love her. Marilyn’s life and work was dedicated to social justice. She worked…

New NESRI fact sheets on the federal health reform law

How will the new health reform law affect the communities most impacted by the continued denial of the human right to health care in the U.S.? The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) is publishing a series of fact sheets analyzing the law from the perspective of immigrants, women, people of color, and rural…

Healthcare-NOW!’s Katie Robbins Isn’t Giving Up on Universal Coverage

By Joan Brunwasser for OpEdNews – My guest today is Katie Robbins, of Healthcare NOW. Welcome to OpEdNews, Katie. The health care bill, for better or worse, has been passed with no universal health care, robust public option or public option of any kind. But Healthcare NOW has not thrown in the towel. Why not?…

Hospital Accounting: It’s Complicated

By Lynn M. Petrovich for CommonSense2.com – For the Love of Universal Health Care Some time ago I received a letter from my employer regarding its health insurance policy which said there would be some changes to it. First of all, that’s never good. Second, I wasn’t sure what the letter meant. I was confused.…