Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
Why is single-payer health reform not viable?
A writer for the Billings Gazette wrote an article supporting single-payer healthcare. By MIKE DENNISON Reporter’s notebook HELENA – When it comes to health care reform in America, there is a relatively simple solution that will cover everyone’s basic health care, control costs and save businesses, most people and the country a lot of money.…
Read MoreDes Moines Register Endorses Single-Payer
The Des Moines Register recently printed an editorial endorsing single-payer healthcare. Here’s the whole editorial: “There is no way to solve America’s economic problems without solving health care,” said U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. The $2.3 trillion spent annually on health care “sucks up 16 percent of our economy and…
Read MoreTime for More Single-Payer Truth Hearings
By the depth and amount of your response to our website, the National Strategy Conference, and the various videos and other resources offered from Healthcare-NOW, it is clear that we are growing in numbers and in commitment to a national, single-payer healthcare system in this country. In addition, president-elect Barack Obama continues to commit to…
Read MoreVote for Single-Payer on Change.org
Change.org is organizing the top “Ideas for Change in America” which they will present to the Obama Administration on inauguration day. Please help make single-payer healthcare one of those ideas. According to Change.org, “The ‘Top 10 Ideas for America’ will be presented to the Obama Administration on Inauguration Day. We will then build a national…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Minute at Our National Strategy Conference
In this edition of the Single-Payer Minute, Donna Smith attends Healthcare-Now’s National Strategy Conference.
Read MoreOregon Teamster Local Endorses HR 676
Teamster Local 206, which represents workers in a variety of occupations through out the state of Oregon, has endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Tom Leedham, Local 206 Secretary-Treasurer said: “Members of our union are very involved in health care and have studied a number of proposals for…
Read MoreUninsured Give but Rarely Receive Organs for Transplant
Call it the ultimate inequity in health care. A team of Harvard researchers finds that people without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney than to receive one. The results of the study, which appear in the current issue of International Journal of Health Services, looked at U.S.…
Read MoreMan emerges as uninsured advocate after sick wife was denied coverage
Jack Conaway was laid off last year. A few weeks later, his wife was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer. Then the Amherst couple lost their health insurance. Faced with possibility of having to chip away at their savings to pay out of pocket for cancer drugs that cost $6,500 every three weeks, they scrambled to…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Healthcare Alliance Forms in Washington, D.C.
By David Swanson With Barack Obama about to assume the presidency and take up the healthcare issue, leaders of single-payer healthcare organizations met for two days, November 11 – 12, at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), Physicians for a National Health Plan (PNHP), Healthcare-NOW! , and…
Read MoreLearn all you can about health care alternatives
The following editorial is from www.Courier-Journal.com. By now it is almost a cliche to say that America’s health care system is broken. In response, many politicians who are calling for “reform” and “universal health coverage” are not, in fact, clarifying the situation because they include in their new plans the very elements that have busted…
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