Posts Tagged ‘universal healthcare’
The Ed Show: Fighting for Single-Payer (Video)
Here is the 11 minute clip of Ed Schultz’s interview with Dr. Margaret Flowers of PNHP about single-payer healthcare and her arrest at the Senate Finance roundtable discussion. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Read MoreReal News Network: Single-payer advocates protest Senate hearing (Video)
The Real News Network put together an amazing video on the eight single-payer advocates who were arrested at the Senate Roundtable on health reform.
Read MoreBaucus 8 Update: Single-Payer in the News
I was one of the Baucus 8 in Tuesday’s demonstration at the Senate Finance Committee Round Table on health care. It was a meaningful and empowering action to be a part of, and I am awed and humbled by the response from single-payer supporters around the country. Hundreds of people have written and donated to…
Read MoreDoctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested, Make History at Senate Finance Roundtable
By Donna Smith— It has finally happened right here in the United States. Citizens who believe healthcare is a human right have been arrested and are being processed like criminals through the Southeast District of Columbia police station. Their crime? Asking for single payer healthcare reform – publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare – to be…
Read MoreSingle-Payer Health-Care Advocates Disrupt Senate Hearing
By Patrick Yoest— WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–Eight advocates of government-run health care disrupted a Senate hearing Tuesday on health-care coverage, complaining that their viewpoint was shut out of Senate debate on the issue. One-by-one, the eight people stood up just before a Senate Finance Committee hearing and spoke in favor of so-called “single-payer” health care –…
Read MoreDoctors Challenge Exclusion of Single-Payer from Health Care Debate
May 5, 2009 Washington DC –- Doctors and other advocates of a national single-payer system–also known as Improved Medicare for All–directly confronted Senators at the Senate Finance Committee roundtable on health reform today. The single payer advocates wanted to know why single-payer experts were being excluded from the roundtable of fifteen witnesses. The doctors said…
Read More“Dems Have Super-Majority To Demand Single-Payer Universal Health Care”
On The Ed Show, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders talks about the Arlen Specter defection to the Democrats, and how the grassroots now has to rise up and demand single-payer universal health care if they want it.
Read MoreHealth care reform with no reform
By Marie Cocco for the Denver Post— Every so often, I remember Ronald Reagan fondly – not for his policies but for his skill at the art of persuasion. Right now, for example, I’d like to call the Gipper back to cock his head, give us that quizzical look, and say “there you go again.”…
Read MoreSaratoga Springs backs universal healthcare, HR 676
By Andrew J. Bernstein for the Saratogian— After a vote Tuesday, the City Council threw its support behind universal health care, passing a resolution to back federal legislation to establish a new paradigm for medical insurance. If passed through Congress, the HR-676 will create a single-payer health care system administered by private entities and funded…
Read MoreBelly Dancers Rally for Universal Health Care
By Scott Hershberger for Your4State.com— MARTINSBURG, WV – It may have looked like a party in Martinsburg: belly dancers and loud, festive music, but the people involved weren’t celebrating. The group is hoping to see “single payer” health insurance in the United States, and they want some support from a local lawmaker. They’re hoping to…
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