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President Obama: the Answer is Medicare for All
Once again the president and congress are not including any discussion of the only real solution to America's health care problems - expanding and improving Medicare to cover everyone in America. On February 25th, the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care will be holding a "Sidewalk Summit for Improved Medicare for All" outside the... »
Watch Dr. Flowers make our case on Bill Moyer’s Journal!
Since President Obama's State of the Union, she has been trying to respond to his request for "better ideas" on health care reform. »
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 the White House that will decide the final legislation for... »
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 arrested in the Senate Finance Committee Health Care Roundtable on... »
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 27 to 19. The amendment would waive provisions of the... »
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 offer his single-payer, Medicare for All amendment No. 2837 and to begin debate. Then,... »
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 single-payer activism! »
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 All, showed up with a box of granola bars... »
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 a national day of action centered on health care... »



