Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
Health Reform Devolves Into ‘Unaffordable Under-Insurance’
From In These Times – Healthcare reform in the shape of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) was supposed to relieve working Americans of the burdens of rising healthcare costs as they struggle to survive the jobless recovery. Instead, working Americans are being confronted with the emergence of a new stage in America’s downward…
Read MoreStudents Occupy for Health Justice
By Danielle Alexander for AMSA On Call blog – I met a patient last week who stopped taking her antidepressant medications because she had been denied long-term health insurance and thought it would improve her chances of eligibility. Unfortunately this obviously wasn’t in the best interest of her health. I had another patient who presented…
Read MoreVideo: Health costs killing us
From Newsday – Imagine a health insurance system with runaway costs, millions left without coverage, administrative headaches galore and unhealthier people than in many other countries spending less. Actually, you don’t have to bother imagining such a system. You’re already living with it. And it’s bankrupting our country. Curing the ills of our health care…
Read MoreLess care for fewer and fewer
By Helen Redmond for the Socialist Worker – EVIDENCE of how bad the U.S. health care crisis has gotten continues to pile up. And with the federal government preparing to impose automatic cuts in the Medicare health program for the elderly and Medicaid health program for the poor, it will only grow worse–unless something is…
Read MoreThe Highmark-UPMC battle shows how private insurers serve no useful purpose
By Ed Grystar, Chuck Pennacchio and Tony Buba for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – The current contract disagreement between Highmark and UPMC provides a clear example of why the free-market health care system has failed. When profit is the primary motive, patient needs get short shrift. Health care is not a commodity, but a human right.…
Read MoreHundreds Join Occupy Portland on Peaceful March for Universal Healthcare
From Oregon Single Payer Campaign and the Portland Occupier – Hundreds of protesters attended a rally on November 19 in Portland after which they planted 558 crosses, representing the 558 uninsured Oregonians who die each year because they lack healthcare. According to Dr. Paul N. Gorman, specialist in geriatric and internal medicine, who was one…
Read MoreOccupy Protesters Interrupt COC Healthcare Event
From Think Progress – Protesters disrupted a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event on healthcare yesterday, interrupting speaker Scott Serota, the CEO of Blue Cross & Blue Shield. Chanting “we are the 99 percent,” the protesters stood at the luncheon event and used a “human microphone” technique to read a statement about how the “the one…
Read MoreTeaneck, NJ Endorses Single-Payer, HR 676
As part of our Win-Win Campaign, Teaneck, NJ passed a resolution supporting HR 676 on October, 11, 2011. Paula Freidman, a single-Payer activist in New Jersey, sent us this report: I am chairperson of the Bergen County Central Trades & Labor Council Retirees. We set out to target towns in which we live to seek…
Read MoreRegister for the Healthcare-NOW! Annual Strategy Conference
Healthcare-NOW! National Strategy Conference January 28th and 29th, 2012 Houston, TX We need your help planning the strategy for the year ahead. Join single-payer activists and supporters from across the country in Houston, TX so we can build on the successes of the year past and develop concrete plans for the year ahead. The Patient…
Read MoreIBEW International Convention Endorses Single Payer
The 38th convention of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has endorsed single payer health as a solution to the nation’s health care crisis. The 3,000 delegates who attended the IBEW convention called upon “…our international officers (to) do everything in their power and authority to work with other groups and elected officials to…
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