Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
Mobilization for Health Care for All Goes National on Thursday
In just two more days, the Mobilization for Health Care for All goes national. When we launched this campaign we envisioned about 100 people signing up to sit in in the first weeks of the campaign – but with over 700 already, we’re now well on our way to 1000 pledges. And we originally talked…
Read MoreDC Lobby Days for Single-Payer This Week
Join us for Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care lobby days for single-payer. On both lobby days, we will break into teams and visit Congressional offices with single-payer amendment materials prepared in advance. As Congress moves closer to voting on whatever final legislation is crafted, we want to make sure the single-payer amendments are strongly…
Read MoreCall Congress Today!
Congress will vote on single-payer, Medicare-for-All soon! They need to hear from single-payer supporters from all over the country. While media coverage of the health reform debate is focused on the Senate Finance Committee’s bill (which was largely drafted by current and former executives at Wellpoint, the nation’s largest private health insurance company), several congressional…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Protest at Fox TV (Video)
The Westside Progressives give their views on the single payer plan infront of Fox Tv LA.
Read MoreSingle payer MD’s not invited to White House (Video)
The President meets with doctors who support his reforms but excludes MD’s who support “medicare for all.”
Read More‘Mad Docs’ crash White House party
By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter – President Barack Obama assembled more than 100 doctors outside the White House on Monday morning to enlist the medical profession’s backing for his proposed health care reforms. But at least one attending physician was there to express a dissenting opinion. Dr. Paul Hochfeld crashed the Rose Garden party in…
Read MoreInsurance Claims Denied (Video)
Bob Schieffer interviews Donna Smith from the California Nurses Association and Robert Zerkilbach of AHIP on a new report on insurance claims. Watch CBS News Videos Online
Read MoreSingle-Payer Protest Interrupts Senate Health Care Bill Markup
By Rachel Weiner for the Huffington Post – Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not under consideration — a single-payer health care plan. “We are speaking for single-payer … good senators would vote for single payer. Please…
Read MoreWhy the Current Bills Don’t Solve Our Health Care Crisis
By Rose Ann DeMoro & Michael Moore – Now we know why they’ve stopped calling this health care reform, and started calling it insurance reform. The current bills advancing in Congress look more like rearranging the deck chairs on the insurance Titanic than actually ending our long health care nightmare. Some laudable elements are in…
Read MoreAs Senate Panel Debates Public Option, Groups Take Direct Action to Promote Single Payer
From Democracy Now! – As debate continues over healthcare reform on Capitol Hill, we hear from two groups taking action to call for a single-payer system: Mad As Hell Doctors, who have been driving across the country in the lead-up to a rally tomorrow in Washington, DC, and Mobilization for Health Care for All, which…
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