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How the Economic Crisis Presents Opportunities to Advance Single-Payer Healthcare

During Healthcare-NOW’s 2008 National Strategy Conference, Dr. Arthur MacEwan outlined how the current economic crisis presents opportunities to advance single-payer healthcare in the US. Dr. MacEwan is a Professor Emeritus of Economics and Senior Fellow of Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He has been a faculty member of the…

Uninsured Give but Rarely Receive Organs for Transplant

Call it the ultimate inequity in health care. A team of Harvard researchers finds that people without health insurance are about 20 times more likely to donate a liver or kidney than to receive one. The results of the study, which appear in the current issue of International Journal of Health Services, looked at U.S.…

Learn all you can about health care alternatives

The following editorial is from www.Courier-Journal.com. By now it is almost a cliche to say that America’s health care system is broken. In response, many politicians who are calling for “reform” and “universal health coverage” are not, in fact, clarifying the situation because they include in their new plans the very elements that have busted…

Action Alert!

On November 19th, 2008, at 10 a.m., the Senate Finance Committee will hold a host a hearing in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C., titled: “Health Care Reform: An Economic Perspective” As of this time, only two U.S. Senators, Max Baucus of Montana and Charles Grassley of Iowa, are slated to offer statements,…

Single-payer system is the way to go

By Ray Bellamy Millions of families are struggling with economic hardship. Health-care costs are weighing on more Americans, contributing to about a million bankruptcies a year, and are a major factor in many home foreclosures. Distressed companies are struggling with the rising costs of providing health coverage for their employees, and there is evidence of…

Massachusetts Health Reform: Solution or Stopgap?

Questions about the Massachusetts health plan? This brochure might help you sort through this recently popular “blueprint” for a national healthcare plan. Get all the details about the limits of mandates and keeping private health insurance companies in the mix. From the brochure: Massachusetts health reform (known as “Chapter 58”) has been billed as a…

Ask Kennedy To Make It Single-Payer

News articles report that Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has instructed the staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee to begin working on a comprehensive healthcare bill to be presented in the next Congress that convenes in early January. The following letter was sent to Senator Ted Kennedy on behalf of the All…

Doctors Call on Obama, Congress to ‘Do The Right Thing’ on Health Reform

This article was posted at www.PublicAffairs.net. 15,000 physicians urge enactment of single-payer system A group of over 15,000 U.S. physicians has called on President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress to “do the right thing” and enact a single-payer national health insurance plan, a system of public health care financing frequently characterized as “an improved…

Massachusetts Voters Say YES to Single-Payer Healthcare, and NO to Mandates

From MassCare.org: Dear Single Payer Supporters – In an election that has brought out the highest voter turnout in Massachusetts probably since 1928, local ballot initiatives supporting single payer and opposing individual mandates passed by landslide margins in all ten legislative districts where they appeared. With almost all precincts tallied, roughly 73 percent of 181,000…