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Baucus 13 Settle Charges

Legal charges against the “Baucus 13” were settled in a series of court hearings held earlier this week. The 13 were charged with disruption of congress after they attempted to speak on behalf of single payer healthcare reform at two Senate Finance Committee hearings on healthcare in May. Senator Baucus, the chair of the Finance…

Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate (Video)

Add your name to FAIR’s petition To address the public’s need for a “robust debate of health care issues and potential policies”, ABC recently aired a prime time town-hall meeting (6/24/09) on President Barack Obama’s health reform proposals. The forum was supposed to feature “questions from every single vantage point,” according to ABC host Diane…

Obama Asks For Your Questions On Health Care

Please take action for Single Payer healthcare by submitting a question to the President by Wednesday, July 1. You have to upload your video question to YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook. According to the White House: “President Obama is scheduled to hold an online town hall on Wednesday to discuss health care and the White House…

Sing Out for Single-Payer Road Show

Singer/songwriter Anne Feeney is headlining a tour throughout California, Oregon, and Washington in July to support national, single-payer healthcare (HR 676 and S 703). You can find all of her tour dates on her website, and listen to one of her songs right here. From Anne Feeney’s website: “We believe that single payer health insurance…

Action Alert: Congress is Headed in the Wrong Direction

It’s time to tell Congress that it’s headed in the wrong direction – proposing to spend over a trillion more dollars to put band aids on a healthcare system that needs major surgery. Everyone in the LCGHC national coalition and its network of millions of Americans have worked hard and made huge strides toward advancing…

Four California AFSCME Locals and District Council Endorse HR 676

Four AFSCME locals and a Northern California based District Council have endorsed HR 676, national single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The four locals are AFSCME East Bay Regional Parks, Local 2428; AFSCME Local 2019; Pleasant City Employees’ Association, AFSCME Local 955; and AFSCME Local 444. The Oakland-based AFSCME District Council…

Action Alert: Why are Single-Payer Supporters so Furious?

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, said, when asked about the “public option,” “Can you say flat out that it’s just never going to be single-payer health insurance?”: “Oh, I think that’s very much the case. And again, if you want anybody to convince people of that, talk to the single-payer proponents who…

The AMA Does Not Represent Us

By members of PNHP – As the American Medical Association (AMA) begins its annual convention in Chicago, we want to take this opportunity to make it clear to the American public, to the media, and to the President and members of Congress, that the AMA does not represent us. It is a common misconception that…

Health Care Briefing on June 10, 2009 (Video)

Healthcare briefing by single-payer experts on June 10, 2009, that included Rep. John Conyers, Michael Lighty, Deborah Richter MD, and Con Hogan. Sponsored by Progressive Democrats of America, California Nurses Association, and Physicians for a National Health Care Program.

Healthcare-NOW! is Not Mobilizing for June 25th Rally in DC

This statement has been prepared in response to the many inquiries as to why organizations supporting single-payer national health care are not mobilizing to support the June 25th rally in Washington DC organized by Health Care for America Now. Friends: As you know, the single-payer movement is driven by a diverse coalition of doctors, nurses,…