Posts Tagged ‘HR 676’
Report on Medicare’s 44th Birthday, July 30, 2009
Over one thousand single-payer activists descended on Capitol Hill on July 30th, 2009 to celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday as concurrent actions planned across the country and on the Hill culminated to pay great tribute to the nation’s most popular social program that is indeed the largest single-payer in the country of hospitals and doctors. The…
Read MoreThe Mad As Hell Doctors Road Tour
On September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care “on the road” in a wrapped and branded Motor Home headed for Washington D.C. to support single-payer healthcare. From their website: There’s no nice way to say it. The financial cost of health care is killing our…
Read MoreWhy Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
By John Nichols for the Nation – How should serious supporters of health-care reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow “debate” between “party of no” Republicans who favor no reform at all, and Blue Dog Democrats, whose “reform” is to make a bad system worse. And not by campaigning…
Read MoreProgressive Democrats take a stand on health care (Video)
The Real News Network covered our rally for single-payer healthcare on July 30th and interviewed David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org. From the Real News Network: An amendment introduced by representative Anthony Weiner, which would have created national single payer, has been traded in for a vote on the House floor in September, as a part of…
Read MoreSingle-payer to be introduced on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives
From PNHP – Friday night as the House Energy and Commerce Committee completed its markup of HR 3200, the House health reform bill, Chairman Henry Waxman interrupted Representative Anthony Weiner of New York to say that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had promised that single payer legislation, HR 676, The United States National Health Care Act…
Read MoreHappy Birthday Medicare!!!
Today, single-payer supporters from all over the country are celebrating the 44th birthday of one of the nation’s most popular public programs: Medicare. On this anniversary of Medicare, we are calling for an end to a wasteful private health financing model based on earning profits through the restriction and denial of needed health care. This…
Read MoreNine More Go to Jail for Single Payer
By David Swanson – Following a pattern of civil resistance in Washington D.C. and around the country, citizens in Des Moines Iowa on Monday risked arrest to press for the creation of single-payer healthcare, the establishment of healthcare as a human right, and an end to the deadly practices of Iowa’s largest health insurance company,…
Read MoreBait and switch: How the “public option” was sold
By Kip Sullivan for PNHP – The people who brought us the “public option” began their campaign promising one thing but now promote something entirely different. To make matters worse, they have not told the public they have backpedalled. The campaign for the “public option” resembles the classic bait-and-switch scam: tell your customers you’ve got…
Read MoreWhy Obama’s Public Option Is Defective, and Why We Need Single-Payer
By Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein for the Progressive – Once Congress finishes mandating that we all buy private health insurance, it can move on to requiring Americans to purchase other defective products. A Ford Pinto in every garage? Lead-painted toys for every child? Melamine-laced chow for every puppy? Private health insurance doesn’t work.…
Read MorePresident Obama’s Longtime Physician Opposes White House Health Plan, Advocates Single Payer (Video)
From Democracy Now! – Dr. David Scheiner was President Obama’s doctor from 1987 until he entered the White House. Today Dr. Scheiner is publicly opposing Obama’s health plan and is calling for a single-payer system.
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