Posts Tagged ‘S. 703’
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…
Read MoreTell 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…
Read MoreSing 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…
Read MoreRose Ann DeMoro: There’s a Conspiracy of Silence Against Single Payer!
Rose Ann DeMoro is the executive director of the California Nurses Association and a National V.P. of the AFL-CIO. On June 3, 2009, she spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference called by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare System. Ms. DeMoro said: “There is a conspiracy of silence”…
Read MoreSingle-Payer: Nothing Less Will Do
These are frustrating times for single payer advocates. We know we have the best solution to the health care crisis – one that is simple, economical, and humane. Most of the American people, and most doctors agree. But Congress, instead of latching on to HR 676 and moving it toward adoption, is focused on new…
Read MoreAction Alert: Today is a National Call-In Day for Single-Payer
Today is a nationwide call-in day for single-payer national healthcare. Our message is clear: “Tax payer dollars should go to people, not profits. Support single-payer national health care now.” So today, we ask that you join with thousands of others to call Congress, to support single-payer legislation in both the House (HR 676) and the…
Read MoreOn S. 703, “The American Health Security Act”
With the introduction of Senate Bill 703, the single-payer movement is gearing up to support a Senate strategy. We applaud Senator Sanders [VT] for introducing S703 “the American Health Security Act,” a comprehensive single-payer bill, though not a direct companion bill to HR 676. Differences between the bills are noted in the document (here) created…
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