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Video: Single-Payer March Covered by Countdown with Keith Olberman

Occupy Wall Street organized a large march yesterday for universal, single-payer healthcare. Keith Olberman interviewed Dr. Steven Auerbach of Physicians for a National Health Program about the march and single-payer healthcare.

Why Healthcare Reform Matters to Occupy Wall Street

By E.D. Kain for Forbes – Nearly every country in the developed world has some form of universal access to health insurance. The glaring exception to this rule is the United States. As a proponent of free markets, I find this to be a glaring failure on the part of American policy makers and business…

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Rally For Health Care Reform

From NY1.com – Nurses and doctors joined the Occupy Wall Street protesters Sunday to rally for health care reform, and tourists continued to funnel in and out of Zuccotti Park to witness the demonstrations for themselves. The event in Zuccotti Park featured speakers demanding significant health care reform across the country. “If we eliminated some…

Poverty, Addiction, and Medicaid Cuts: A Former Addict’s Call to Occupy Wall St.

By Jeff Deeney for AlterNet – An addict-turned-social worker explores the relationship between poverty and addiction, exposing how Medicaid cuts could have disastrous consequences on entire communities. This week the City of Philadelphia was awarded the dubious distinction of the nation’s “poorest large city,” with one quarter of the adult population and one third of…

Why Wall St. and Corporate Insurance Should Get Out of Healthcare

The October 2011 movement brings us these two powerful videos. We need Wall Street, the health insurance industry and investors out of healthcare; replaced by a publicly financed single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all system. Doctors, health providers and patients should decide healthcare–not Wall Street. Adara Scarlet’s story. Dr. Flowers explains why Wall Street should be ashamed of…

Healthcare-NOW! Supports Occupy Wall St. Movement

In 1,368 cities across the country and around the world, people are standing up to the top 1% who collectively have more wealth and power than the lower 99% of the population. These occupations are self-sustaining communities focused on creating a space for free and open dialogue and action on the issues–from healthcare to education…