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- Overhaul’s Failure Will Ignite U.S. Health Mergers
- Single-payer legislation in California intended to keep debate alive
- HHS secretary asks insurer to justify 39% rate hike
- Healthcare lobby looks to jobs bill as vehicle for Medicare fixes
- Obama to Hold Bipartisan Summit on Health Care
- Watch Dr. Flowers make our case for Medicare for All on Bill Moyer's Journal!
- Lobbying industry booms in recession Updated
- Author of California single-payer health care measure expects it on ballot by 2014
- Health Care 17.3% of GDP; Federal Government will Be More than Half of Health Care Spending for First Time
- Federal government could be paying more than half the cost of health care next year
- Health spending consumed record portion of economy in 2009, report says
- Healthcare will eat up one in five dollars of US GDP by 2020, Medicare says
- Labor Group Tells Obama: A “Medicare-for-All” system would be far more cost effective than any of the proposed current reforms
- Reps Edwards, Conyers Introduce Constitutional Amendment to Block Corporate Election Dollars
GET LOUD!
The health care bill will get worse, not better, as it goes through House-Senate negotiations. Because Democratic Party leadership wants to expedite the bill and skip the democratic process of reconciliation, there will be closed-doors meeting of a few members of Congress and... »
Probation Ends for Baucus 8. Group Vows: “The Fight will continue until every person in our nation has access to quality, affordable health care.”
Members of the Baucus 8 appeared at the H. Carl Moultrie I Courthouse today for their final hearing following 6 months of probation and, for 3 members, 40 hours of community service. The Baucus 8, all of whom are doctors or health advocates, were... »
Real Health Care Reform Advocates Take it to the Home of United Health Group CEO!
We are everywhere. We're seniors, youth, labor unions, disability groups, immigrants, citizen action, women's groups, religious, small businesses, and we know what's right- they know it too- we need Medicare for All! »
We Need to Keep Pushing
The next legislative push for Medicare for All is to allow states to move to single-payer systems. Congressman Kucinich’s amendment would allow this to happen. It passed out of the House Committee of Education and Labor on July 17 in a bipartisan vote of... »
Sanders Says Single-Payer Day Will Come
By Donna Smith - Sickening. Saddening. Maddening. And the stuff of future determination in the political struggle for healthcare for all in the United States. On the floor of the U.S. Senate today, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont rose to... »
Sanders Single-Payer Healthcare Amendment to be Considered in Senate
Sanders Single-Payer Healthcare Amendment to be Considered in Senate By Donna Smith December 14th, 2009 – This is it, Medicare for All, single-payer advocates. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Announced tonight that tomorrow the Senate will hear several more amendments to the health reform bill –... »
Press Roundup for International Human Rights Day Actions
A press round up from leaders that have sent info our way. All press is significant, but special thanks to the NYC folks for aggressively pursuing press and getting the first print article and photo in the NY Times discussing Medicare for All and... »
Health Care Street Heat Targets Senator Schumer, Demanding Medicare for All
By Joseph Huff-Hannon New York, NY. December 10, 2009 — On Thursday morning, a group of friends and colleagues, mostly middle-aged, sat and chatted over coffee at a midtown deli near Grand Central Station. Then Laurie Wen, an organizer with the Mobilization for Healthcare for... »
Dr. Laura Boylan, demanding Medicare for All, arrested at Schumer protest
[The following statement was released by neurologist Dr. Laura Boylan after her arrest on Thursday morning in midtown Manhattan for sitting down with others in front of the building housing the offices of Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and refusing to move. She was charged... »
Bodies Delivered to Senate Offices for Human Rights Day
Washington, D.C. – On International Human Rights Day, Dec. 10, 2009, health professionals and patients delivered “bodies” to selected Senators to make visible the number of people who die in the Senators’ home states because we do not have Medicare for all. As part of... »
Nine arrested at sit-in targeting Sen. Schumer demanding Medicare for All
Health professionals, patients demand expansion of Medicare Chanting “55 is not enough, Medicare for all,” 9 protesters were arrested at a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office in mid-town Manhattan this morning. Referring to Schumer’s push to lower Medicare age eligibility to 55, advocates for Medicare-for-All state... »
Day of Action at Senators’ Offices: Human Rights Day, Dec 10th
On December 10th, advocates for “Medicare for All” are demonstrating for the right to health care as part of the growing national civil disobedience campaign Mobilization for Health Care for All. The campaign has gained notoriety for having organized more than 35 sit-ins across... »