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Health Care Tops Agenda

Louisvillians had a strong message for President-elect Barack Obama yesterday: The nation’s health-care system needs either massive reforms or a complete overhaul. “Health care in this nation costs too much and is serving too few,” said Scott Wegenast of AARP Kentucky, one of more than 80 people who attended a community health-care forum at the…

Action Alert: Vote for Single-Payer on Change.org

The second round of voting in Change.org’s “Ideas for Change in America” competition has begun. Let’s make single-payer healthcare one of the ten ideas that will presented to President Barack Obama on January 16th. According to Change.org, “The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January…

Change policies to aid auto industry

This new year, we’ve got a huge task ahead of us: Restructuring the American auto industry for a viable, long-term future. It won’t be easy — just as it wasn’t easy to win the emergency bridge loans which give us a chance for a brighter tomorrow. When we went to Washington seeking to help so…

Message from Representative John Conyers

President-elect Barack Obama has set up a website to gather ideas from ordinary citizens on the most important issues facing our country. Obama wants to hear from you about health care. Now is our chance to show the president-elect the tremendous support nationwide for single payer health care. Show your support for single payer health care Single payer…

Health Care Series: 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

Dr. Steve from the Daily Kos is starting a series of diaries to provide basic information regarding how the health care system works, basic health care economics, and other general background to health care reform, with a single payer focus. The goal is provide a broad background that is NOT driven by specific events, news,…

December 22nd: National Call-In Day for HR 676

GIVE AMERICA A GIFT. NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HR 676, Single-Payer Healthcare Monday, December 22, 2008 The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare – National Single Payer Coalition Steering Committee has adopted an action plan that includes two national call-in days to Congressional members. The call-in days will focus coalition organizations on asking their membership to…

Healthcare-NOW! Activist, Alison Landes, on the air

Yesterday, Alison Landes, a single-payer activist with Healthcare-NOW! and Floridians for Health Care was interviewed on WMNF 88.5 by Rob Lorei. Listen to the full show. The show’s topic was “Does the Nation Need Health Care Reform?” Excerpt from the show: Today we’ll talk about health care reform. It’s near the top of the agenda…

Meet Dr. Quentin Young

For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Young, he has been a tireless advocate for single payer health care for over twenty years, but that is just one item on a CV that includes: – Practicing medicine for over sixty years (he’s recently retired) – President of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,(physicians who traveled…

Blacking Out Single-Payer–And Killing The Auto Industry

By Jonathan Tasini— When the history of our current economic crisis is written, there will need to be a full chapter devoted to the willful ignorance or stupidity of the traditional media. Right before our eyes stands the solution to a huge chunk of our fiscal nightmare and a lifeline for the auto industry: single-payer…

Obama and Daschle should opt for single-payer

By Rose Ann DeMoro– Barack Obama needs to make good on his campaign pledge to reform health care. It is not enough to throw the issue off to former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on…