Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
Video: Healthcare-NOW! at National Nurses United Rally on Nov. 3
National Nurses United (NNU) held a day of action on November 3rd in support of the Financial Transactions Tax, a tax on Wall Street transactions that would raise $350 billion. Vanessa Beck from Healthcare-NOW! speaks about why we also need a single-payer national healthcare system.
Read MoreThursday, November 3rd: Make Wall Street Pay!
Join Healthcare-NOW! and National Nurses United for a day of action on Thursday November 3rd. We have to let the world know we will not let the 1% continue to steal our money or cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security–the programs that help keep us housed, healthy, and fed through hard times and older age.…
Read MoreOccupy Wall St. Single-Payer March Roundup
Healthcare-NOW! NYC Organizer Katie Robbins address the crowed at the Occupy Wall Street universal, single-payer healthcare march on October 26th. Here’s the press release about the march: Wall Street’s control of health care is exposed in a march/speak-out today that starts at the offices of Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, a subsidiary of WellPoint, the largest…
Read MoreVideo: Single-Payer March Covered by Countdown with Keith Olberman
Occupy Wall Street organized a large march yesterday for universal, single-payer healthcare. Keith Olberman interviewed Dr. Steven Auerbach of Physicians for a National Health Program about the march and single-payer healthcare.
Read MoreHelp Wanted: Lessons From The Single-Payer State
How to spread Vermont’s human-rights victory throughout the country BY James Haslam for In These Times – BURLINGTON, VT. — On May 26, 2011, as we watched Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) sign “Act 48: Relating to a Universal and Unified Health System” into law—which sets Vermont on course to become the first U.S. state…
Read MoreWhy Healthcare Reform Matters to Occupy Wall Street
By E.D. Kain for Forbes – Nearly every country in the developed world has some form of universal access to health insurance. The glaring exception to this rule is the United States. As a proponent of free markets, I find this to be a glaring failure on the part of American policy makers and business…
Read MoreOccupy Wall Street Protesters Rally For Health Care Reform
From NY1.com – Nurses and doctors joined the Occupy Wall Street protesters Sunday to rally for health care reform, and tourists continued to funnel in and out of Zuccotti Park to witness the demonstrations for themselves. The event in Zuccotti Park featured speakers demanding significant health care reform across the country. “If we eliminated some…
Read MoreWhy Wall St. and Corporate Insurance Should Get Out of Healthcare
The October 2011 movement brings us these two powerful videos. We need Wall Street, the health insurance industry and investors out of healthcare; replaced by a publicly financed single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all system. Doctors, health providers and patients should decide healthcare–not Wall Street. Adara Scarlet’s story. Dr. Flowers explains why Wall Street should be ashamed of…
Read MoreHealthcare-NOW! Supports Occupy Wall St. Movement
In 1,368 cities across the country and around the world, people are standing up to the top 1% who collectively have more wealth and power than the lower 99% of the population. These occupations are self-sustaining communities focused on creating a space for free and open dialogue and action on the issues–from healthcare to education…
Read MoreCLUW 2011 Convention Calls for Mobilization for National Single Payer Healthcare
From Unions for Single Payer – The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), meeting in September, 2011 in Orlando, Florida, for its 16th Biennial Convention, voted to “wholeheartedly renew its endorsement of HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.” CLUW first endorsed HR 676 at its 2003 Convention, leading the way for many unions…
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