Posts Tagged ‘Single-Payer’
St. Paul Regional Labor Federation Endorses HR 676
From Unions for Single Payer Health Care – The St. Paul Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, is the latest labor federation to endorse HR 676, Congressman John Conyers’ single payer healthcare bill. Robert “Bobby” Kasper, President of the St Paul Federation, reports that delegates unanimously endorsed the Conyers bill at their regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday…
Read MoreCan SEIU Help Vermonters Win Single Payer?
By Steve Early for Labor Notes – While the nation waits for an overdue Supreme Court decision that will decide the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, another health care drama with wide implications for universal health care is just starting in Vermont. Prodded by a strong grassroots movement, the Vermont legislature voted last…
Read MoreNo Matter What the Supremes Say, We’re Still SiCKO After All These Years
By Donna Smith – Come on to Philadelphia on June 30th, if you want to know the low down on what the high court of the land says about health reform. Some real people who serve as the world’s highest profile examples of the dysfunctional healthcare system in the United States, filmmaker Michael Moore, and…
Read MorePreparing for the Supreme Court Decision
A lot of energy is being spent conjecturing on the outcome of the upcoming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA). As pundits are busy speculating on how the decision will affect Obama’s reelection campaign and upcoming Congressional races, three possible scenarios seem most likely: – The entire law is…
Read MoreWould single-payer healthcare be less vulnerable to the court than the ACA?
By Jeff Greenfield for Yahoo News – If the Supreme Court does decide to strike down any or all of the Affordable Health Care Act, the implications will range from the political to the medical to the economic. For me, such a decision will take its place among the more supremely ironic of unintended consequences:…
Read MoreMichael Moore, Wendell Potter, SiCKO’s in Philly June 30th
Still SiCKO After All These Years Saturday, June 30th, 2012. – 7 PM Plays and Players Theater, 1714 Delancy Street, Philadelphia, PA $40 Minimum Donation. Tickets Available On-line. First Come, First Served. Go Here: http://tiny.cc/sicko5 Michael Moore’s documentary SiCKO was released in 2007 to widespread acclaim. A straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel…
Read MoreIt would not be the end of health reform, just a chance to get it right
By Rose Ann DeMoro for the Huffington Post – If President Obama is now confiding to Democratic donors that he may have to “revisit” health care in a second term if the Supreme Court throws out his first attempt, as Bloomberg News reported June 1, maybe this time we can get it right. Instead of…
Read MoreThe Big Three Automakers Push For Single Payer!
…In Canada. Please note that this letter was signed about ten years ago. But we need to remind them of this with the ACA ruling fast approaching. By Ray Medeiros for politicususa.com – The Big Three automakers, GM, Chrysler and Ford along with the Canadian Autoworkers pushed the Canadian government to strengthen their single payer…
Read MoreCongressman Ryan Hides After Trying to Attack Medicare in San Francisco
From Don Bechler of Single Payer Now – Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) came to SF on May 24 to raise funds for his attacks on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and Gay Marriage. He is the point person for the 1% attacks on our social investments. He was scheduled to speak at the GAP headquarters, but…
Read MoreSingle-payer health care would save billions for Massachusetts
By David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler for the Boston Globe – The House and Senate health care proposals would set imaginary limits for spending growth enforced by secret “improvement plans” and wrist slaps for hospitals that overcharge; establish tiered payment schemes to consign the poor and middle class to second-tier hospitals and doctors; push…
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