Posts Tagged ‘universal healthcare’
21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare
By Ralph Nader – Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare. No health insurance system is without problems but Canadian style single-payer full Medicare for all is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal. In the early 1960s, President Lyndon Johnson enrolled 20 million elderly Americans into Medicare in six months. There were no websites. They…
Read MoreNJ Resident Struggles for Long-Term Care, Calls for Medicare for All
From the Courier-Post – Mike Pollock calls himself a squeaky wheel. Since 2002, the Atco resident has fought with insurance companies, medical agencies and doctors after his wife, Kathy, 61, survived a brain tumor and later two debilitating strokes that left her partially paralyzed. After their private insurance and savings were exhausted, the Pollocks needed…
Read MoreSingle-payer healthcare vs. Obamacare
“Medicare for all” isn’t perfect, but it does what the ACA can’t: Guarantee better healthcare and a simpler system From Salon – Whenever scandal arises in Washington, D.C., the fight between the two parties typically ends up being a competition to identify a concise message in the chaos — or, as scientists might say, a…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare
By Amy Goodman for Truth Dig – “We apologize for the inconvenience. The Marketplace is currently undergoing regularly scheduled maintenance and will be back up Monday 10/7/3013.” You read it right, 3013. That was the message on the homepage of the New York state health insurance exchange website this past weekend. Yes, the Affordable Care…
Read MoreAFL-CIO Reaffirms Commitment to Single Payer–Demands Fixes to ACA
From All Unions for Single Payer – The just concluded AFL-CIO convention reaffirmed its commitment to a single payer health care system while demanding that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) be fixed to protect Taft-Hartley (multiemployer) plans, to end the excise tax, to make employers cover workers who average 20 hours a week, to require…
Read MoreStopping the TPP is Essential to Work for a Universal Health System
By Margaret Flowers for FlushTheTPP.org – The Obama administration has been negotiating an agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for the past three years that is now heading into the final stages and could be signed into law as early as October. If it is not stopped, this new agreement has the potential to prohibit…
Read MoreNominate the Worst Inurance Company of 2013
Congress is in recess for the rest of August, and we thought we’d try something new. So we created, and are now taking nominations for, The 2013 Award for Profiteering and Deceit in the Private Health Insurance Industry. Now’s your chance to nominate the worst insurance company of 2013! Just tell us the which insurance…
Read MoreMarch On Washington
In just a couple of weeks, on Saturday, August 24, people from around the country will convene on Washington, D.C. to mark the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 civil rights “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.” Can you join Healthcare-NOW!, and our allies, in D.C. as we call for universal, guaranteed healthcare as essential…
Read MoreSen. Reid: Obamacare ‘Absolutely’ A Step Toward A Single-Payer System
By Avik Roy for Forbes – When I speak to conservatives about health care policy, I’m often asked the question: “Do you think that Obamacare is secretly a step toward single-payer health care?” I always explain that, while progressives may want single-payer, I don’t think that Obamacare is deliberately designed to bring about that outcome.…
Read MoreMedicare’s 48th Celebration Updates
We want to thank all of the single-payer activists all over the country for all of their hard work in organizing celebrations for Medicare’s 48th anniversary! There were over 30 actions this year and activists added five cosponsors to HR 676 along with many commitments to cosponsor once the August recess ends. Here are the…
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