Posts Tagged ‘Single Payer Healthcare’
Single-Payer Activities this Weekend
The energy building around this coming weekend is palpable. Listed below are the activities that are happening in the DC Metro area and nationally to support inaugural events, which is also the weekend of Martin Luther King Day. This is an important weekend to keep single-payer out there; here’s what you can do: Hold Signs…
Read MoreWhy Single-Payer Health Care Can’t Wait
Americans’ experience with employer-paid health benefits has been far from happy. A steady stream of reporters from corporate news media outlets warmed things up at a frigid Camp Hope in Chicago last week, when CNN and the local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS all called at Drexel Park on day two of the…
Read MoreOppose Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General
The following letter was sent to members and supporters of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) by Dr. Quentin D. Young. Dear PNHP members and friends, The report this week that President-elect Obama is considering Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, for the position of U.S. surgeon general is deeply troubling. Among our…
Read MoreAFT and NEA Local Unions Endorse HR 676
AFT and NEA local unions in New Jersey and Massachusetts have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). In Mahwah, New Jersey, AFT Local 6308, North Jersey Skills for Technology Union, which represents instructors working at Lincoln Technical Institute, has endorsed HR 676. Lincoln Tech is a for-profit, post-secondary,…
Read MoreChange policies to aid auto industry
This new year, we’ve got a huge task ahead of us: Restructuring the American auto industry for a viable, long-term future. It won’t be easy — just as it wasn’t easy to win the emergency bridge loans which give us a chance for a brighter tomorrow. When we went to Washington seeking to help so…
Read MoreBlacking Out Single-Payer–And Killing The Auto Industry
By Jonathan Tasini— When the history of our current economic crisis is written, there will need to be a full chapter devoted to the willful ignorance or stupidity of the traditional media. Right before our eyes stands the solution to a huge chunk of our fiscal nightmare and a lifeline for the auto industry: single-payer…
Read MoreObama and Daschle should opt for single-payer
By Rose Ann DeMoro– Barack Obama needs to make good on his campaign pledge to reform health care. It is not enough to throw the issue off to former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on…
Read MoreSingle-payer health system could save billions
Because of the current financial crisis, many observers see no point in discussing an expansion of health care coverage this year — either federal or state. Indeed, it is true that the current crisis is adding greatly to our public debt. And it is true that total health costs in the United States are already…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Talking Points & Why Mandate Plans Won’t Work
The New York City Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program has put together some “talking points” for making the single payer “expanded and improved Medicare for All” argument. 1. Americans are afraid that they can’t afford to get sick. Those of us with insurance are paying more and more of the premium and…
Read MoreEveryone Wants Healthcare Reform
Written by Timothy Fisher I spent much of Election Day at the polls helping collect signatures to support a single-payer health care initiative. Given the great turnout for this year’s election, this was an excellent way to get a sense of who really lives in one’s town. In this increasingly polarized world, it’s probably the…
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