Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
White House Overwhelmed with Requests for Obama to Meet with “Mad as Hell Doctors” about Single Payer
The “Mad As Hell Doctors” from Oregon are making themselves heard at the Obama Administration with an email campaign that threatened to shut down the White House inbox. The road-tripping, physician-activists from Oregon known as the “Mad As Hell Doctors” received a pressing call from the White House this week to demand they remove a…
Read MoreThe health care wars Pt.2
From the Real News Network – From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a discussion after a town hall meeting in Virginia.
Read MoreHealth care wars
From the Real News – From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a report from a raucous town hall in Virginia with Howard Dean.
Read MoreLiar, Liar … Well, Healthcare Pants on Fire
By Donna Smith – So, we’ve been told over and over again that under the healthcare reform plans currently defended and pushed by the President and Congress that we can keep what we’ve got if we like it. No one will take your health insurance bennies away. Not under our employer-based, for-profit system. Well, tell…
Read MoreLet’s get back to what health care reform should be about
By Rose Ann DeMoro for the Cleveland Plain Dealer – From the fabricated “death panels” scares to the traumatized seniors urging legislators to keep the government’s hands “off my Medicare,” it’s apparent that the health care debate has lurched off the rails. We’ve lost sight of families like Nathan Wilkes’ who, introducing President Barack Obama…
Read MoreWhat’s the Fate of the Healthcare Reform? (Video)
From GRITtv – Is the healthcare debate making you sick? We’ve got some clear information – which just may be the best medicine. Joining us today we have Wendell Potter, former Vice President of CIGNA; Karen Finney, former Communications Director of the Democratic National Committee; and our very own Diane Shamis, GRITtv Producer and Founding…
Read MoreMessage to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts (Video)
Canadian Doctors for Medicare hosted a celebration of Medicare in Canada. The speakers included Roy Romanow, former Saskatchewan Premiere and Commissioner on Health Care in Canada. They tell Americans that Canadian universal health care works and encourage Americans to implement a single payer universal health care systems.
Read MoreObama’s PhRMA deal
By the Real News Network – The unlikely union of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America or PhRMA and the White House has many wondering about the true nature of this partnership. Especially taking into consideration the powerful lobby’s opposition to any kind of health care reform for years. The Real News spoke with Donna…
Read MoreLeft Out? (Video)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich visits the Ed Show on MSNBC to talk about HR 676, single-payer healthcare, and the “public option.”
Read MoreNew poll shows Canadians overwhelmingly support public health care
Group says advocates of private system are out of touch with most Canadians In a last-ditch effort to convince Canadians that their public health care system should be privatized, Canadian Medical Association (CMA) President Robert Ouellet has promised to “pull out all the stops” during the association’s annual meeting next week. Trouble is, Ouellet’s mission…
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