Healthcare-NOW

Report from Demo at Rep Rangel’s Office

This week the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition (PHIMG), including member organizations Healthcare-NOW!, and Act Up!, launched the “Not Covered Campaign” with overwhelming success. Putting Bill Maher’s recent words into action, “Health insurance is like a hospital gown, chances are your ass isn’t covered,” bare-bottom protesters wore hospital gowns and dressed as Insurance Executives.…

Single-Payer News from LA Health Forum

Here are some articles from the hugely successful rally for single-payer healthcare at the Presidential Health Care Forum on Monday, April 6, 2009. White House Summit In Denial On Regulating Health Care Costs Huffington-Post Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum LA Times The real show was outdoors – what the White House Forum…

Universal health coverage in spotlight at L.A. forum

But the White House-organized event is light on details. By Lisa Girion and Noam Levey for the LA Times— Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — Even as President Obama toured Europe his administration pressed its healthcare reform campaign Monday in Los Angeles with a forum co-hosted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who lost his bid…

Something is Rotten at PBS

By Russell Mokhiber for Counter Punch— Last year, former Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid made a great documentary for the PBS show Frontline titled Sick Around the World. Reid traveled to five countries that deliver health care for all – UK, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan – to learn about how they do it. Reid found…

An Open Letter to Congress: Help Me or I Will Die

By Donna Smith– U.S. Representative Eric Massa of New York said this week that in the 86 days since he took office, he has received many letters from his constituents. Some are general letters supporting him or proposed legislation; some letters express disagreement with some of what Congress is working on. Other letters begin with…

Single-Payer News from NC Health Forum

Here are some articles published about the single-payer demonstration outside the Presidential Health Forum in Greensboro, NC. Health forum hears from uninsured News-Record.com More soon!

‘Sick Around America’ disappoints

By Mark Almberg for PNHP— “Sick Around America,” a Frontline documentary about the dysfunctional U.S. health care system, aired March 31 on PBS. Billed as a sequel to the widely hailed “Sick Around the World,” a 2008 Frontline production featuring veteran Washington Post correspondent T.R. Reid, the new documentary was eagerly awaited by U.S. supporters…

Congressmen will talk about health reform

By Cathleen F. Crowley for timesunion.com— As the nation grapples with improving the health care system and making it more affordable, a contingent of people believe the answer is a single-payer system. But advocates worry that their idea is being sidelined. Representatives of the single-payer movement were initially locked-out of health care summit called by…

Three IATSE Locals in Arizona and New York Endorse HR 676

Three local unions affiliated with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), AFL-CIO, have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). In Phoenix, Bill Hennessy, Business Representative for IATSE Local 336, reports that the local is “sending a letter endorsing this bill (HR 676) to our senators and…

Iowa Demonstrations in the News

Demonstrators met outside, and inside, the Presidential Health Forum in Des Moines, Iowa on March 23. Here is some of the press that single-payer supporters drew that we have so far. Protests at White House healthcare hearing in Iowa Reuters The Villagers are Restless for Real Healthcare Reform TPM Protesters outside and inside White House…