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Support the Single-Payer Expressions for Access to Care Equality Project

Every movement has its music. With this in mind, CUUSP is joining efforts with Healthcare-NOW! to produce a compilation album of songs and stories that will serve to further inform and inspire this present-day civil rights movement. S-PEACE (Single-Payer Expressions for Access to Care Equality) will combine folk, rock, blues, hip hop, and spoken word…

Social Security Cuts Eyed by Deficit Commission ‘Especially Painful,’ Report Finds

by Mike Hall for AFL-CIO NOW Blog – Next month, Social Security, one of the nation’s most successful and important government programs, turns 75. It is the cornerstone of retirement security for tens of millions of Americans. (Today, the U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security will examine the success of Social Security…

Town Hall Meetings Say No to Cutting Social Security

By Al Benchich for Labor Notes – I can’t help but think that the folks behind the “America Speaks” town hall meetings, held June 26 in 19 cities across the country, were shell-shocked by the results. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and, principally, the foundation of Wall Street financier Peter Peterson had spent…

Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick

By Chris Hedges for Truthdig – A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage…

Vermont health reform panel recommends analyst

By Nancy Remsen for Burlington Free Press – MONTPELIER — The Health Care Reform Commission recommended Monday that the Legislature hire the Harvard economist who helped Taiwan revamp its health-care system for a six-month, $300,000 health research project for Vermont. The consultant’s task: Give lawmakers three roadmaps the state could follow to achieve a more…

‘Don’t shred our safety nets’

The following text is the testimony that Katie Robbins, national organizer for Healthcare-NOW!, presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on June 30 in Washington. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. My name is Katie Robbins and I am here on behalf of Healthcare-NOW!, an organization founded in 2004 to support…

America Speaks Back: The Effort to Gut Social Security and Medicare Takes a Hit

By Dean Baker for TPM – The opponents of Social Security and Medicare are getting in high gear. After all, it makes perfect sense that after the collapse of a housing bubble has just destroyed the life savings of near retirees that we would cut their Social Security and Medicare. Okay, at least in Washington…

Speak Up for Medicare and Social Security

For decades, Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has been trying to privatize or get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Now he is funding AmericaSpeaks, a private company that is organizing town hall meetings with citizens across the country on Saturday, June 26th. Pete Peterson wants to use these meetings to shape the national discussion…

League of Women Voters US Endorses Improved Medicare for All

Contact: Rebecca Elgie Tel: (607)272-0621 Website: www.healthcare-now.org Email: healthylink@earthlink.net June 14th 2010 – Atlanta, GA – Rededicating themselves to the fight for single-payer health care, the League of Women Voters US (LWVUS) passed a resolution with a wide majority at their national convention “to advocate strongly for bills that legislate for improved Medicare for all.”…

Humiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America

By Donna Smith – Oh, the things we did not fix in the healthcare bill are shocking. Just as seniors falling into the Medicare drug benefit donut hole begin to get the $250 checks meant to calm their fears about our new healthcare legislation, the rest of us would do well to remember the abuses…