Posts Tagged ‘Single Payer Healthcare’
Michael Moore marches to his movie
From www.post-gazette.com – See video here. In-your-face filmmaker Michael Moore came to Pittsburgh instead of Hollywood last night to show his latest rabble-rousing documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story” to its first American audience, a spirited group of union workers energized by the AFL-CIO convention Downtown. A last-minute change of plans and an invitation from the…
Read MoreMad-As-Hell Doctors On Cross-Country Tour with a Mission
By Michele Swenson for the Huffington Post – They have been ostracized and marginalized in the great U.S. health care reform debate, but now a group of doctors, many from Physicians for a National Health Care Program, are hitting the road and taking action, and they visited Denver on September 14. They will arrive in…
Read MoreUninsured figures show mandate-based health reforms don’t work
17,000-member organization of physicians says latest numbers show urgent need for single-payer health reform Official estimates released this morning by the Census Bureau showing a marginal increase in the number of Americans without health insurance in 2008 – now estimated at 46.3 million, up from 45.7 million in 2007 – masks the true dimensions of…
Read MoreAction Alert: Call Congress to Support the 9/11 Responders
When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, more than 50,000 people responded to the call to action to help with recovery at the World Trade Center. 8 years later, these same heroes feel great betrayal as more are dying from 9/11 related injuries and illnesses without proper health care or financial security. A recent…
Read MoreTwo Harvard Medical professors critique our current system and offer a better vision
From PNHP – Universal Health Care Even with its dazzling technical advances and sophisticated medicines, health care increasingly frustrates Americans. Patients must contend with a system that won’t pay for some treatments, long waiting lists, rushed visits with doctors, copious paperwork and — of course — the ever-soaring cost of medical coverage and medications. Many…
Read MoreLabor Councils in Tennessee, Texas and Minnesota Endorse HR 676
Four central labor councils in Tennessee, Texas and Minnesota have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). One hundred and thirty four central labor councils and area labor federations have now endorsed HR 676. In Tennessee, the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee has endorsed HR 676,…
Read MoreGiving Single-Payer a Second Look
By Rep. Anthony Weiner – As President Obama prepares to address the nation about his vision for health care reform, we should not overlook the last, best truly transformative change to our health care system: Medicare. We have been staring so intently at the lessons of 1993 that we may have forgotten the universal rule…
Read MoreWhite House Overwhelmed with Requests for Obama to Meet with “Mad as Hell Doctors” about Single Payer
The “Mad As Hell Doctors” from Oregon are making themselves heard at the Obama Administration with an email campaign that threatened to shut down the White House inbox. The road-tripping, physician-activists from Oregon known as the “Mad As Hell Doctors” received a pressing call from the White House this week to demand they remove a…
Read MoreThe health care wars Pt.2
From the Real News Network – From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a discussion after a town hall meeting in Virginia.
Read MoreHealth care wars
From the Real News – From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a report from a raucous town hall in Virginia with Howard Dean.
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