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Dr. Margaret Flowers Visits Bill Moyers Journal

From Bill Moyers Journal – Pediatrician Margaret Flowers speaks about protesting for change and her recent arrest in an effort to get a Medicare-for-all plan back on the table. See the video of the interview here. Transcript February 5, 2010 BILL MOYERS: Make me an offer I can’t refuse. That’s what President Obama said, when…

Medicare-for-all doctors arrested outside Obama-GOP meeting

‘There is a better health plan, Mr. President’ Rising to President Obama’s challenge in his State of the Union address that others come up with a better approach to health care reform than his own, two Maryland physicians who advocate for a single-payer program stood on the sidewalk this morning outside the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace…

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (Part 2)

Citizen juries demonstrate massive support for single-payer By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP – “They contradicted both beltway and public opinion polls. The whole damn world seems to think the Clinton plan is the way to go. Yet they like the single-payer system, which isn’t even getting considered in Washington.” That was how the president…

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all

Introduction to a Six-part Series By Kip Sullivan, JD for PNHP Blog – “Americans are scared to death of single payer.” These words were not uttered by some foaming-at-the mouth wingnut. They were written by Bernie Horn, a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, a member of Health Care for America Now, on…

Health Care, Essential to Democracy

by Katie Robbins & Andy Coates – Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, we felt wizened to the possibility of unknown threats in the legislative churn on health reform. As insurance and pharmaceutical companies, Catholic bishops, and the right wing throw…

Study: Over 2,200 US Veterans Died in 2008 Due to Lack of Health Insurance

From Democracy Now – On Veterans Day, a new study estimates four times as many US Army veterans died last year because they lacked health insurance than the total number of US soldiers who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period. A research team at Harvard Medical School says 2,266 veterans under…

Physicians and supporters arrested at CareFirst health insurance office to call for real health care reform

Dr. Margaret Flowers and Charles Loubert, 81, will stay in jail until CEO of CareFirst meets to discuss redirecting lobbying funds to pay for patients care Baltimore, MD – Two physicians and two supporters were arrested today at a sit-in at a Baltimore CareFirst health insurance office. The sit-in is part of a national groundswell…

Single payer MD’s not invited to White House (Video)

The President meets with doctors who support his reforms but excludes MD’s who support “medicare for all.”

Docs as Props

By SinglePayerAction.org – In the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama met with a group of doctors. From all fifty states. Banned from the meeting were doctors from Physicians for a National Health Program — representing more than 17,000 docs who support a single payer health care system. Those doctors were not invited to attend.…

Harvard study finds nearly 45,000 excess deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

A study published online today estimates nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002. The new study, “Health Insurance and Mortality in U.S. Adults,” appears in today’s online edition of the…