Posts Tagged ‘Single Payer Healthcare’
League of Women Voters US Endorses Improved Medicare for All
Contact: Rebecca Elgie Tel: (607)272-0621 Website: www.healthcare-now.org Email: healthylink@earthlink.net June 14th 2010 – Atlanta, GA – Rededicating themselves to the fight for single-payer health care, the League of Women Voters US (LWVUS) passed a resolution with a wide majority at their national convention “to advocate strongly for bills that legislate for improved Medicare for all.”…
Read MoreHumiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America
By Donna Smith – Oh, the things we did not fix in the healthcare bill are shocking. Just as seniors falling into the Medicare drug benefit donut hole begin to get the $250 checks meant to calm their fears about our new healthcare legislation, the rest of us would do well to remember the abuses…
Read MoreHands Off Medicare and Social Security!
In the name of “fiscal balance,” President Obama’s Debt Commission is pushing for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Ignoring the hundreds of billions of dollars the country could save by implementing a national single-payer healthcare system, they’re threatening the a true safety net our most vulnerable Americans can rely on. We are joining Progressive…
Read MoreRising Costs: A Health Care Challenge For Democrats
by Julie Rovner for NPR – For Democrats, passing the new health care law may have been the easy part. Now that it’s the law, everything that happens in health care, whether due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or not, is their responsibility. “The Democrats have guaranteed that the American health care…
Read MoreCritics Question Study Cited in Health Debate
By REED ABELSON and GARDINER HARRIS for the New York Times – In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions in wasteful health care spending but make people healthier by doing so. Wasteful spending…
Read MoreWhacking the Old Folks
By William Greider for the Nation – In setting up his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Barack Obama is again playing coy in public, but his intentions are widely understood among Washington insiders. The president intends to offer Social Security as a sacrificial lamb to entice conservative deficit hawks into a grand bipartisan…
Read MoreInfection in Our Healthcare System
From the Media Mobilizing Project – Philadelphia’s two major newspapers have been acquired by outside investors. Comcast cable dominates the market, but thousands of our neighbors can’t afford to get online. In an era of dwindling outlets telling the stories of everyday Philadelphians, the Media Mobilizing Project has launched MMPtv, a monthly half-hour newsmagazine knitting…
Read MoreThe Baucus 8 One Year Later (Video)
On May 5, 2009, 8 health advocates stood up to the members of the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Senator Max Baucus, to expose the exclusion of the health reform favored by the majority of people in America: a single payer/national improved Medicare for All health program. Industry lobbyists were invited to testify before the…
Read MoreFormer President Bush’s brother collapses at Wellpoint meeting
From wishtv.com – INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – The WellPoint shareholders meeting in downtown Indianapolis ended much earlier than some disgruntled shareholders would have liked when 71-year-old William H.T. Bush, brother of the first President Bush, collapsed. For the fourth year in a row, in the shadow of WellPoint corporate headquarters in downtown Indianapolis, on the day…
Read More3rd Largest Labor Council in Ohio Endorses HR 676
On April 27, 2010, the Tri-County Regional Labor Council, the third largest labor council in the state of Ohio, endorsed HR 676, national single payer health care legislation sponsored by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). John Wagner, Executive Secretary Treasurer, stated that the council supports single payer “Because we believe that it’s the real solution to…
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