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Activists Burn Insurance Bills at AHIP Conf.

On March 11, members of Single Payer Action burned their health insurance bills, in protest, in front of the AHIP conference in Washington, DC. See the full video of the demonstration below.

Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan

By Kevin Sack for the New York Times— Three years ago, Massachusetts enacted perhaps the boldest state health care experiment in American history, bringing near-universal coverage to the commonwealth with Paul Revere speed. To make it happen, Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, made an expedient choice, deferring until another day any serious…

Forum Puts Single-Payer in the News

Yesterday’s Healthcare Forum, organized by the Obama Administration, in Dearborn, Michigan, drew many single-payer supporters. Enough so that quotes and stories from single-payer healthcare supporters made it into the mainstream press. Here are the articles and TV segments we’ve found so far: Cancer Story Stands Out at White House Forum Health Reform Forum in Dearborn…

Cancer Story Stands Out at White House Forum

Participants at the first White House Regional Forum on Health Care Reform heard from many people who have horror stories about their health care. WATCH ACTION NEWS REPORTS IN THE VIDEO PLAYER ON THE RIGHT One participant was Adrian Campbell Montgomery. The young mother told the crowd about her battles with cancer. At 22 she…

Healthcare fix crucial to recovery -Michigan forum

By Michael Strong for Reuters— Hard-hit industrial state hosts forum Delegates agree on need to control costs Many favor single-payer plan DEARBORN, Mich., March 12 (Reuters) – “Michigan is the poster child of why reform needs to happen,” Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told President’s Barack Obama’s first regional healthcare forum on Thursday. Obama has said…

1st White House health forum kicks off in Michigan

By Kathy Barks Hoffman for the AP— DEARBORN, Mich. – The first White House Regional Health Reform Forum turned emotional Thursday as a young mother with ovarian cancer told of how not having health insurance caused her to put off the doctor’s visit that may have caught the cancer earlier. Adrian Campbell Montgomery is waiting…

Put Single-Payer on the Table

By Amy Goodman for TruthDig.com— President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care delivery remains private. People still get their choice of what doctor to go to…

We’re Organizing Rallies at the Presidential Health Forums

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!!! As many of you have heard, the Obama Health Care Task Force is hosting 5 Regional forums on healthcare in Michigan, California, Iowa, North Carolina, and Vermont. Healthcare-NOW! currently has logistics on two (Vermont and Michigan) of the five demonstrations. On short notice, peaceful demonstrations are being mobilized outside the…

No Reason to Demonize U.S. Single-Payer Health

Commentary by John F. Wasik for Bloomberg.com— It’s time to stop kicking sand in the face of single-payer health care. It may be the strongest solution around to insure every American at a lower cost. After decades of industry campaigns against this model — dubbed by its critics as “socialized” medicine — it’s important to…

Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights

By Arthur Delaney for the Huffington Post— Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group for the health insurance industry. “We are not radicals! We are not a fringe element!” shouted Massa, who opted…