Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
Happy Birthday to Medicare
By Dr. Margaret A. Nosek for the Houston Chronicle – With all the commotion surrounding the Supreme Court and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it would be easy to overlook an important birthday: Today is the 47th anniversary of Medicare, the public health insurance program that covers our nation’s seniors and people with severe disabilities.…
Read MoreThe Answer is Medicare for Everyone – Medicare Anniversary Action in Lexington
By Tom Eblen for the Lexington Herald-Leader – Medicare turned 47 years old last Monday. Bill Mahan celebrated by setting up a booth on Main Street to try to convince passersby that America’s health insurance crisis could be eased considerably if everyone had Medicare. The Lexington retiree collected about 125 signatures for his petition. It…
Read MoreWhat a Single Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like (Video)
From the Real News Network – An interview with economist Dr. Gerald Friedman on how a single-payer plan in Maryland would cover everyone, improve outcomes and make business more competitive. More at The Real News Part 2 – What a Single Payer Health Insurance Plan Looks Like More at The Real News Part 3 –…
Read MoreInsurance Companies Gaming the System
By Donna Smith – Has your insurance company called you recently to ask you to sign up for a wellness or disease management program? Has that same company told you it’s a free service to policyholders and promised you that they do not share the information with the departments and people who administer your benefits…
Read MorePresbyterians, TIAA-CREF hear call to divest from private health insurance firms
By Katie Robbins – In the midst of a fierce debate on the national level around the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act, the Divestment Campaign for Health Care made its official debut. Its stated mission: “to expose how the health insurance industry puts the need for profit above the needs of…
Read MoreForging Ahead for Medicare-for-All
I’m angry. My father got laid off (again). My 17 year old sister is beginning to look at colleges for an education I already know she’ll still be paying back in two decades. My friends – some of whom have masters and law degrees – can’t find steady employment. And now the Supreme Court has…
Read MoreTargeting Single-Payer Advocates
By Helen Redmond – President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act sucks. It isn’t change in the dysfunctional American health care system that any one should believe in or defend. And yet that is exactly what liberals and progressives are doing. Led by spin doctors at The Nation, they’re spinning ObamaRomneyCare (ORC), and that’s…
Read MoreJuly 30: Celebrate Medicare’s 47th Anniversary
Coming in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to largely uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicare’s 47th anniversary on Monday, July 30 is a great opportunity to highlight why we still need single-payer Medicare-for-all. We know that the ACA will not achieve universal coverage — at least 26 million people will remain uninsured…
Read MoreHealthcare Advocates: Time To Bury the Hatchet
By Wendell Potter for the Nation – Health insurance executives breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court upheld their favorite part of the Affordable Care Act (the part that is one of the least popular among the rest of us)—the individual mandate. And then, I’m confident, moments after they exhaled, they were on…
Read MoreMedicare for all CA Bus tour: In West Covina Tonight SiCKO ‘Sisters’ Reunite
By Donna Smith – What: SiCKO Reunion on final summer 2012 Medicare for all bus tour in California When: Thursday, July 12 – health screenings 3-6 pm, and town hall at 6:30 pm Where: West Covina City Hall, 1444 W Garvey Ave Today in West Covina, the California Nurses Association summer 2012 Medicare for all…
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