Healthcare-NOW

Message from Representative John Conyers

President-elect Barack Obama has set up a website to gather ideas from ordinary citizens on the most important issues facing our country. Obama wants to hear from you about health care. Now is our chance to show the president-elect the tremendous support nationwide for single payer health care. Show your support for single payer health care Single payer…

Health Care Series: 10 Excellent Reasons for National Health Care

Dr. Steve from the Daily Kos is starting a series of diaries to provide basic information regarding how the health care system works, basic health care economics, and other general background to health care reform, with a single payer focus. The goal is provide a broad background that is NOT driven by specific events, news,…

Healthcare-NOW! Activist, Alison Landes, on the air

Yesterday, Alison Landes, a single-payer activist with Healthcare-NOW! and Floridians for Health Care was interviewed on WMNF 88.5 by Rob Lorei. Listen to the full show. The show’s topic was “Does the Nation Need Health Care Reform?” Excerpt from the show: Today we’ll talk about health care reform. It’s near the top of the agenda…

Meet Dr. Quentin Young

For those of you unfamiliar with Dr. Young, he has been a tireless advocate for single payer health care for over twenty years, but that is just one item on a CV that includes: – Practicing medicine for over sixty years (he’s recently retired) – President of the Medical Committee for Human Rights,(physicians who traveled…

Blacking Out Single-Payer–And Killing The Auto Industry

By Jonathan Tasini— When the history of our current economic crisis is written, there will need to be a full chapter devoted to the willful ignorance or stupidity of the traditional media. Right before our eyes stands the solution to a huge chunk of our fiscal nightmare and a lifeline for the auto industry: single-payer…

Obama and Daschle should opt for single-payer

By Rose Ann DeMoro– Barack Obama needs to make good on his campaign pledge to reform health care. It is not enough to throw the issue off to former Senator Tom Daschle, Obama’s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Daschle says he wants to hear from us, the American people, on…

Single-payer health system could save billions

Because of the current financial crisis, many observers see no point in discussing an expansion of health care coverage this year — either federal or state. Indeed, it is true that the current crisis is adding greatly to our public debt. And it is true that total health costs in the United States are already…

Single-Payer Talking Points & Why Mandate Plans Won’t Work

The New York City Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program has put together some “talking points” for making the single payer “expanded and improved Medicare for All” argument. 1. Americans are afraid that they can’t afford to get sick. Those of us with insurance are paying more and more of the premium and…

Healthcare petition urges: Everybody In, Nobody Out

For more than five years, medical students from the University of Kansas Medical Center have put in long hours serving uninsured patients at their Jay Doc Free Clinic. Last year, a number of students and physicians involved in such efforts started a new group, Heartland Healthcare for All. Their aim is to push universal health…

Everyone Wants Healthcare Reform

Written by Timothy Fisher I spent much of Election Day at the polls helping collect signatures to support a single-payer health care initiative. Given the great turnout for this year’s election, this was an excellent way to get a sense of who really lives in one’s town. In this increasingly polarized world, it’s probably the…