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House Lets States Do Single Payer Healthcare

By David Swanson – On Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET in the House Committee on Education and Labor, the committee members voted 25 to 19 to pass Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s amendment to the healthcare reform bill. This amendment, if it survives the full House, the Senate, the conference, and the President, will not alter…

“They Dump the Sick to Satisfy Investors” (Video)

Insurance Exec Turned Whistleblower Wendell Potter Speaks Out Against Healthcare Industry From Democracy Now – As the debate over healthcare reform intensifies on Capitol Hill, we spend the hour with a former top insurance executive who’s now exposing the industry’s dirty secrets. Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one…

Action Alert: House Committee to Vote on Single-Payer

Healthcare-NOW! has received confirmation that, in a display of Congressional leadership, Congressman Anthony Weiner [NY 14], will introduce a single-payer amendment similar to HR 676 to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s portion of the tri-committee healthcare legislation. We need your help in telling members of the Energy and Commerce Committee that the people want…

Labor Delegation Persuades John Murtha To Co-Sponsor HR 676

After meeting with western Pennsylvania labor leaders on June 29, Representative John Murtha agreed to sign on as a co-sponsor of HR 676, national single payer health care legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Eighty-five House members, in addition to Conyers, now have their names on HR 676. Murtha, who has represented Pennsylvania’s 12th…

USW president supports single-payer health care (Video)

Leo Gerard: I think we should fight for single-payer health care, fight for a principled position Paul Jay speaks to Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers’ union about his fight for single-payer health care reform and the unionization legislation. Gerard says that, “the unions are first and foremost going to be very active in…

Action Alert: State Legislators for HR 676

Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo and NY State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried recently launched a campaign to win state legislator support for HR 676. About a month ago, Senator Ferlo sent letters to every state legislator in the country, asking them to support national, single-payer healthcare. We need your help increasing the list of signers between…

Public Citizen: Take Action for Single-Payer

Help Public Citizen reach its goal of 50,000 emails to Congress! Our nation is facing a health care crisis. Single-payer health care is the only reform that will provide universal coverage and contain skyrocketing costs. Public Citizen needs you to take action immediately and tell Congress loud and clear that lawmakers must order the Congressional…

Congress Needs to Protect Americans, Not Insurance Companies

By Mark Dunlea, Executive Director, Hunger Action Network of NYS – As Congress negotiates health care reform, Democratic leaders have put the interests of insurance companies ahead of the needs of American citizens. If Americans want an affordable, quality health care system that enables consumers to choose whom they receive health care services from, private…

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…

Tell 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…