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Massachusetts Health Reform: Solution or Stopgap?

Questions about the Massachusetts health plan? This brochure might help you sort through this recently popular “blueprint” for a national healthcare plan. Get all the details about the limits of mandates and keeping private health insurance companies in the mix. From the brochure: Massachusetts health reform (known as “Chapter 58”) has been billed as a…

Ask Kennedy To Make It Single-Payer

News articles report that Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has instructed the staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee to begin working on a comprehensive healthcare bill to be presented in the next Congress that convenes in early January. The following letter was sent to Senator Ted Kennedy on behalf of the All…

Doctors Call on Obama, Congress to ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Health Reform

This article was posted at www.PublicAffairs.net. 15,000 physicians urge enactment of single-payer system A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to “do the right thing” and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as “an improved…

Latino Caucus, California CLC, OPEIU Local Endorse HR 676

HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation, introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), has picked up three more labor endorsements. Delegates to the 19th Annual Latino Caucus of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), meeting in Allentown, Pennsylvania at the end of September, endorsed HR 676, reports Jose G. Guerrero. In California, the Napa/Solano Central Labor Council…

Another Single-Payer Minute

This week at SPM we went into our video archives and found this timely short film for your pre-election viewing pleasure. Find more Single-Payer Minutes at American Patients United’s website.

Passing on Single-Payer Health Care

The following article was printed in the October/November issue of Dollars and Sense magazine. Passing On Single-Payer Health Care Union leadership is out of touch with the rank and file—and the public—on health care. By Jeffrey Muckensturm A coalition of major labor unions and liberal organizations has recently created what it calls “a national grassroots…

Healthcare in the USA Pt. 2

Despite the fact the US continues to rank poorly in worldwide health care standards, John McCain like many, maintains that the United States health care is the best in the world. The Real News Network spoke to Steven Lewis, health policy and research consultant from Canada, Dr. Don McCanne of Physicians for a National Health…

Communications Workers of America Endorses HR 676

Washington, DC–The Communications Workers of America (CWA) is the 20th international union to endorse HR 676, national single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). The endorsement came in a comprehensive resolution on national health care reform that was passed at CWA’s recent 70th Annual Convention in Las Vegas, June 23-25, 2008. Shortly…

Albany, NY Common Council Unanimously Endorses HR 676

Richard Propp, MD, of the Capital District Alliance for Universal Healthcare, Inc., reports to Healthcare-NOW! that “on October 20, 2008, the Albany, NY Common Council unanimously passed our resolution endorsing HR676. Thank you for your leadership, technical skills, and inspiration.” Here is the full resolution: RESOLUTION BY THE ALBANY COMMON COUNCIL, OCTOBER 20,2008 Council Member…

CNA President, Deborah Burger, Interview on Obama’s and McCain’s Healthcare Plans

The Real News Network recently interviewed Deborah Burger, President of the California Nurses Association (CNA), about the presidential candidates’ healthcare plans and why single-payer is the real solution to America’s healthcare crisis. Part 1 Part 2