Healthcare-NOW

Docs as Props

By SinglePayerAction.org – In the Rose Garden this morning, President Obama met with a group of doctors. From all fifty states. Banned from the meeting were doctors from Physicians for a National Health Program — representing more than 17,000 docs who support a single payer health care system. Those doctors were not invited to attend.…

‘Mad Docs’ crash White House party

By Bennett Hall, Gazette-Times reporter – President Barack Obama assembled more than 100 doctors outside the White House on Monday morning to enlist the medical profession’s backing for his proposed health care reforms. But at least one attending physician was there to express a dissenting opinion. Dr. Paul Hochfeld crashed the Rose Garden party in…

Single-Payer Protest Interrupts Senate Health Care Bill Markup

By Rachel Weiner for the Huffington Post – Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not under consideration — a single-payer health care plan. “We are speaking for single-payer … good senators would vote for single payer. Please…

Why the Current Bills Don’t Solve Our Health Care Crisis

By Rose Ann DeMoro & Michael Moore – Now we know why they’ve stopped calling this health care reform, and started calling it insurance reform. The current bills advancing in Congress look more like rearranging the deck chairs on the insurance Titanic than actually ending our long health care nightmare. Some laudable elements are in…

Sit-in today at Aetna office in New York to demand an end to insurance company abuse

17 citizens and health care providers arrested, launching national mobilization for health care for all New York, NY – Citizens and health care providers today staged a sit-in at the offices of Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, in New York City (99 Park Ave @ 40th). The action is part of…

As Senate Panel Debates Public Option, Groups Take Direct Action to Promote Single Payer

From Democracy Now! – As debate continues over healthcare reform on Capitol Hill, we hear from two groups taking action to call for a single-payer system: Mad As Hell Doctors, who have been driving across the country in the lead-up to a rally tomorrow in Washington, DC, and Mobilization for Health Care for All, which…

Time for Civil Disobedience

We need your support for a new campaign of non-violent, civil disobedience targeting the private health insurance industry. This past spring, 13 brave individuals were arrested for disrupting Senate Finance hearings on health reform, chaired by Sen. Max Baucus. They were disgusted with witness panels, filled with private insurance execs and their cronies, that did…

Update: Join the Mad as Hell Doctors on Sept. 30th in Washington, DC

Are you mad as hell at the current health care situation in this country? Here is a chance to voice your discontent and channel your energy for change. The Mad As Hell Doctors have been traveling across the country speaking out, educating and listening. They are appropriately angry at the current situation (which they distinguish…

Mad as Hell Doc on the Ed Show

Mad-As-Hell Doctors’ Dr. Paul Hochfeld visits the Ed Show. Says, “Public option is dead; Single-Payer or bust!”

NYT Slams Single-Payer

Fails to include advocates among ‘diverse’ experts From FAIR – The New York Times devoted some rare space on September 20 to discussing single-payer (or Medicare-for-all) health reform. The result? A one-sided account of why such a system couldn’t work. With a headline like “Medicare for All? ‘Crazy,’ ‘Socialized’ and Unlikely,” readers probably had a…