Posts Tagged ‘Medicare (old)’
Arrested Single-Payer Activists on FRONTLINE
Nearly one year ago, doctors, nurses, and single-payer advocates stood up in the Senate Finance Committee hearing led by Senator Max Baucus to protest the exclusion of single-payer advocates from the discussion. One by one they were arrested. Now, FRONTLINE examines the writing of a healthcare bill by a corporate-controlled Congress. In Obama’s Deal, airing…
Read MoreOn Grayson’s “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act”
PNHP’s Response to Grayson’s Public Option Act Congressman Alan Grayson Press Release March 9, 2010 Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., today introduced a bill (H.R. 4789) which would give the option to buy into Medicare to every citizen of the United States. The “Public Option Act,” also known as the “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act,”…
Read MoreLast 24 Hours to Vote for Medicare for All
Recently, President Obama spoke at to a large group of mostly supportive students and local residents at Arcadia University in Glenside. The president at one point mentioned that “people on the left” want “single-payer.” But before he could add that that approach wasn’t going to happen, he found himself drowned out by cheers calling for…
Read MoreWhere’s the Single-Payer Advocate?
By Michael McAuliff for the NY Daily News – Reps. Anthony Weiner and Peter Welch are reprising a question that proved thorny for President Obama’s last health care summit: Where’s the single-payer advocate? Weiner and Welch — single-payer advocates who are not invited, yet — argue in a letter to the President today that someone…
Read MoreRep. Anthony Weiner Discusses Single-Payer on the Daily Show
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) was interviewed on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Feb. 4th, 2010. Watch the video here.
Read MoreEduardo Needs a Heart
While most children wish for the latest toys and gadgets for Christmas, there is a 14 year old boy who wishes for a heart so he can live a normal life. Eduardo Loredo was diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy, an illness in which the heart becomes weakened and enlarged, and cannot pump blood efficiently. Eduardo was…
Read MoreNine arrested at sit-in targeting Sen. Schumer
Health professionals, patients demand expansion of Medicare Chanting “55 is not enough, Medicare for all,” 9 protesters were arrested at a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office in mid-town Manhattan this morning. Referring to Schumer’s push to lower Medicare age eligibility to 55, advocates for Medicare-for-All state that opening it up to only one portion of…
Read MoreCall Congress Today!
Congress will vote on single-payer, Medicare-for-All soon! They need to hear from single-payer supporters from all over the country. While media coverage of the health reform debate is focused on the Senate Finance Committee’s bill (which was largely drafted by current and former executives at Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private health insurance company), several congressional…
Read More7 Arrested in Chicago Demanding Single Payer Healthcare
Seven citizens and healthcare providers who are fed up with the state of our healthcare and the healthcare debate were arrest at the downtown offices of Cigna today. The sit-in is part of a national mobilization to end insurance abuse and build support for real reform – Medicare for All, a single-payer plan. ChiSPAN, the…
Read MoreA Death Every 12 Minutes: The Price of Not Having Medicare for All
By John Geyman for Huffington Post – Americans are dying at a faster rate — 1 every 12 minutes, 5 an hour, 120 a day, 45,000 a year — not from war or natural disaster, but from lack of health insurance. That’s the stunning finding of a study published today in the American Journal of…
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