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Help Wanted: Lessons From The Single-Payer State

How to spread Vermont’s human-rights victory throughout the country BY James Haslam for In These Times – BURLINGTON, VT. — On May 26, 2011, as we watched Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) sign “Act 48: Relating to a Universal and Unified Health System” into law—which sets Vermont on course to become the first U.S. state…

Why Healthcare Reform Matters to Occupy Wall Street

By E.D. Kain for Forbes – Nearly every country in the developed world has some form of universal access to health insurance. The glaring exception to this rule is the United States. As a proponent of free markets, I find this to be a glaring failure on the part of American policy makers and business…

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Rally For Health Care Reform

From NY1.com – Nurses and doctors joined the Occupy Wall Street protesters Sunday to rally for health care reform, and tourists continued to funnel in and out of Zuccotti Park to witness the demonstrations for themselves. The event in Zuccotti Park featured speakers demanding significant health care reform across the country. “If we eliminated some…

Stop the Super Committee, Support Healthcare-NOW!

The Super Committee does not represent us. Operating in secret with no public accountability while laden with ties to special interests, the Super Committee is tasked with identifying $1.2 trillion in cuts to federal spending by November 23rd. Co-chair Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) has said cuts to everything, including Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, are…

Why Wall St. and Corporate Insurance Should Get Out of Healthcare

The October 2011 movement brings us these two powerful videos. We need Wall Street, the health insurance industry and investors out of healthcare; replaced by a publicly financed single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all system. Doctors, health providers and patients should decide healthcare–not Wall Street. Adara Scarlet’s story. Dr. Flowers explains why Wall Street should be ashamed of…

Healthcare-NOW! Supports Occupy Wall St. Movement

In 1,368 cities across the country and around the world, people are standing up to the top 1% who collectively have more wealth and power than the lower 99% of the population. These occupations are self-sustaining communities focused on creating a space for free and open dialogue and action on the issues–from healthcare to education…

Single-payer healthcare: better care, lower cost

By Josh Starcher – Healthcare has already been proclaimed the central issue of the 2012 Presidential election, just like it was hailed the central issue of Obama’s presidency. It was also a central issue during the 2010 election, and the 2008 campaign. So why don’t we ever hear the end of it? Our leaders still…

Montana Gov. Seeks Waiver To Establish Single Payer In His State

By Zaid Jilani for ThinkProgess – As ThinkProgress previously reported, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) made history earlier this year when he signed into law legislation that would make his state the first state to lay the groundwork for a single payer health care system. In order to enact this system, the state needs a…

Health care and the Ron Paul redux

In the US, 45,000 people die every year because they cannot afford basic medical services, according to a Harvard study. By Helen Redmond for Aljazeera – When Tea Party supporters at a recent Republican presidential debate in Florida laughed wickedly and shrieked out “YEAH!” to Wolf Blitzer’s question to Ron Paul asking if society should…

Oct. 6 – Join Us in Freedom Plaza

Are you going to the October 6, 2011 rally at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.? Healthcare-NOW! will be there to demand human needs over corporate greed, including life-saving, money-saving improved Medicare for all. Help us build the single-payer contingent by coming to Freedom Plaza on October 6th. Please email Vanessa@healthcare-NOW.org if you and/or your organization…