Hey Chief Justice, Whitehouse Says Its Not a Tax!
Its been interesting to watch the huge RW PR campaign and crying and knashing of teeth this week since Chief Justice Roberts caused a sheetstorm by joining a majority and writing a strange opinion that...
View ArticleThrowing Savers Under the Bus?
In a reply to my post on a progressive deficit reduction plan, a commenter suggested that holding Federal interest costs at the rate of .0226 in the coming years would "crush" retirees and savers, and...
View ArticleVermont Single Payer: What It Is and What You Can Do
Throughout 2009 and into early 2010, while the health reform we got nationally was being watered down by the corporate conservadems in the Senate, the Vermont legislature was moving forward. An...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Don Beyer, VA – 8th Candidate for Congress
(Author’s note: My apologies: this one’s about 6 times longer than the ideal 1000 word post. I just didn’t feel right about breaking it up into parts, however, because that lose the continuity. So,...
View ArticleThe Peterson Foundation Sings the Same Old Song
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF) always does a press release when the CBO issues one of its budget outlook 10 year projection reports. The PGPF did another in January quoting its President and...
View ArticleMisinformation About The Cost of Single-Payer National Health Insurance
In a front-page Wall Street Journal article a few days ago, the projection was made that a single-payer national health insurance program (NHI), as part of the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie...
View ArticleEcon Professor cited by WSJ to smear Sanders Health Plan -- says They got it...
Who could forget the Socialist-splash that the Wall Street Journal made a few weeks ago, with their Bernie Sanders "critique"?Afterall, $15 Trillion (spread out over 10 years) sounds like a LOT of...
View ArticleForward to Single Payer Health Care
A new day is breaking for single payer health care. This concept of publicly funded, universal health care, locked out of the national debate six years ago, has made it on stage in the presidential...
View ArticleLibby Medicare for Flint
There is a precedent for expanding Medicare to a region suffering from a public health disaster.Montana Senator Max Baucus tucked into the Affordable Care Act a special section that expands Medicare to...
View ArticleEmployer based health care is failing workers. Time to “Stand Up and Do...
By Kay TillowHealth care in the United States is the most costly in the world. The per capita the US spends on health care is double the average of other industrialized countries, yet other nations...
View ArticleFighting for Single Payer in the Time of Trump
Speaker Paul Ryan has prepared an agenda for slashes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, our best programs won through generations of struggle. Trump says he will repeal the Affordable Care...
View ArticleMedicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676
Medicare for All: National Call-In Day for HR 676 Not a real diary, but an action item. Per what we have learned from Indivisible, and other experiences, call your Representative. Thank them or push...
View ArticleNo Backward Steps in Health Care—Forward to Single Payer
Life expectancy in the United States just went down. We were already several years behind other advanced countries. People in Italy live four years longer. Life expectancy is one of the fundamental...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's High-Risk Pools in Trumpcare is corporate welfare & hurts...
It is important that we understand that High-Risk Pools are nothing more that corporate welfare for insurance companies that ultimately we all pay for in addition to paying for our own insurance...
View ArticleLocal Union that was target of Trump Tweets takes a stand for HR 676,...
United Steelworkers Local 1999 of Indianapolis has endorsed HR 676, national single payer health care legislation sponsored by Congressman John Conyers, reports local president Chuck Jones.USW Local...
View ArticleMedicare for All Review
Greetings Daily Kos readers! This is my first foray into your diary system, so of course I had to choose a topic that everyone will love to see broken down, right? Right. I know many people are...
View ArticleHR-676: Medicare for All has 100 co-sponsors. Over 51% of Democratic House...
H.R. 676 now has 100 co-sponsors, the most it has ever seen. Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) was the 100th co-sponsor, he signed on yesterday:x.@RepLindaSanchez joins the #MedicareForAll train to make it 99...
View ArticleHR 676, Improved Medicare for All, Has 100 Cosponsors!
Now we need for HR 676 to be introduced into the senateAt 11:06 AM on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Pennsylvania Congressman Brendan Doyle tweeted his statement on why he decided to cosponsor HR 676,...
View ArticleMedicare for All or Bust?
Reflections on Thursday's House vote to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA):Democrats should not be thinking they can stand by and just watch Republicans lose the...
View ArticleOops...I did it again! The Good People of FL CD 25 Deserve Better Representation
After being a physician for the disenfranchised and marginalized poor, most of whom have at least two jobs and find it hard to make ends meet, it has been my pleasure to care for the health of...
View ArticleRep. John Conyers and Members of Congress Host Medicare for All Press Conference
Rep. John Conyers and Members of Congress Host Medicare for All Press Conference to Announce 111 Cosponsors on HR 676On Tuesday, May 23, 2017, Congressman Joseph Crowley, Chairman of the Democratic...
View ArticleIt Gets Even Better - What They Aren't Telling You About Single Payer...
Universal healthcare legislation such as HR 676 and California’s SB 562 offers so many great results. No premiums, co-payments or fees; essentially all medical conditions covered, and an underlying...
View ArticleWarren says Democrats should campaign on Single-Payer healthcare.
Elizabeth Warren has been on a campaign footing to push back against Republican efforts to bestow enormous tax breaks on millionaires and billionaires by decimating health-care coverage for ordinary...
View ArticleIf we want single payer healthcare, progressives have to pressure the...
Meet the Press had Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) on today to talk Health-Care. Cassidy made headlines in May for insisting any healthcare plan meet “the Jimmy Kimmel test”. Cassidy...
View ArticleProgressive Lion: John Conyers Jr. (MI-13)
John Conyers Jr. is Dean of the House of Representatives, he was first elected to Congress in 1965. He is currently in his 26th term, and is one of only seven people to have served over 50 years in...
View ArticleBernie: Become a Citizen Co-Sponsor of Medicare for All.
We have saved The Affordable Care Act for the time being. Now it’s time to begin our fight for Medicare for All. Its time has come. This WILL be an issue in 2018.But after the GOP’s seven-year drive to...
View ArticleSenator Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) supports single-payer Medicare For All.
We’ve had a fair amount of discussion about Medicare For All recently, including the various proposal and what it means to different people. Over the past few months, an increasing number of Democrats...
View ArticleMaxine Waters, Bobby Scott, Elijah Cummings, Barbara Lee and Jim Clyburn...
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.”— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Chicago, March 25, 1966 — Medical Committee for Human Rights)Rep. Barbara Lee...
View ArticleVermillion County Federation of Labor Endorses HR 676, national single payer
Michael Dodge, President of the Vermillion County Federation of Labor in Danville, Illinois, reports that his labor council has endorsed HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, the single payer...
View ArticleOppose Graham-Cassidy; Endorse Medicare for All
The ACA is again under attack and time is running out. The vote on the Cassidy-Graham bill will happen on or before September 30. Make those calls; don’t let up on the pressure. At the same time, we...
View ArticleMuskegon Labor Council endorses HR 676, national single payer legislation
Ryan Bennett, Chair of the Lakeshore Community Labor Council in Muskegon, reports that his council has endorsed HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, national single payer legislation. “We...
View ArticleNorthwest Florida Federation of Labor endorses HR 676, national single payer...
James Lingley, President of the Northwest Florida Federation of Labor located in Pensacola, has announced that his labor federation has endorsed HR 676, national single payer health care, also called...
View ArticleEastern Virginia Labor Federation in Norfolk Endorses HR 676, national single...
President Thomas Calhoun reports that the Eastern Virginia Labor Federation (EVLF) has endorsed HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, the single payer legislation that has 120 cosponsors in...
View ArticleLicking-Knox CLC in Newark, Ohio, Endorses HR 676, Nat’l Single Payer Health...
David McElfresh, President, reports that his central labor council, the Licking-Knox CLC in Newark, Ohio, has endorsed HR 676, the national single payer legislation also known as Expanded and Improved...
View ArticleRep. Keith Ellison takes the lead on HR 676, national single payer legislation
March 18, 2018Congressman Keith Ellison2263 Rayburn BuildingWashington, DC 20515Dear Congressman Ellison,Congratulations on assuming the lead sponsorship of HR 676, the national single payer...
View ArticleMost of the Candidates in Kentucky's 6th Congressional District Speak for...
Posted on April 24, 2018 by Kay TillowOn Monday, April 23, 2018, there was a 6th Congressional district candidate forum at the Library in Lexington.The event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters...
View ArticleFor nearly three-quarters of Kentuckians, necessary healthcare is beyond...
On May 14, 2018, Kentucky Voices for Health sponsored a conference in Lexington on the high costs of healthcare in Kentucky. Lynn Quincy of Altarum, a research group funded by the Robert Wood Johnson...
View ArticleImproved Medicare for All means something. Don’t dilute it!
By Kay TillowOn July 13, 2018, in an article1 on Vox, Tim Higginbotham and Chris Middleman of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) Medicare for All campaign condemned Paul Krugman, Adam Green,...
View ArticleMedicare for All should be free of profit takers.
It’s the best of times and the worst of times for the advocates of national single payer health care in the United States. So good because the vast majority in the US have embraced the concept of...
View ArticleVideo: “Off the Table: The Case for HR 676”
“Off The Table: The Case for HR 676” is a new video by western Pennsylvania film makers John Rice and Tony Buba. The film, made for showing at union meetings, examines the difference between U.S. and...
View ArticleStories from the trenches: patients who cannot afford their basic meds and...
Case #1. COPD exacerbation.Subjective:68 year old female with past medical history of severe COPD, not on any home medications, presents with shortness of breath and cough. She is admitted for COPD...
View ArticleCall to protect HR 676, the model single payer bill. Patients not profits.
Serious attempts are being made to undermine HR 676 by removing the ban on investor-owned, for-profit hospitals, nursing homes, and other institutions. This effort to seriously damage HR 676 is being...
View Articlefrom now on mail all your medical bills to congress #MailMedicalBillstoCongress
how much longer are we going to just sit around and read heartbreaking stories like these???instead of writing letters or calling our congresscritters, we should just mail them all our medical bills....
View ArticleWestern PA Coalition for Single Payer Asks Rep. Jayapal to Preserve HR 676
Single Payer advocates across the country are concerned about the announcement by Representative Pramila Jayapal that she is re-writing HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All legislation...
View ArticleAppeal to Rep. Jayapal to Maintain the Integrity of HR 676
The letter below was sent priority mail in early December to Representative Pramila Jayapal at both her Seattle and Washington, D. C. Offices. We are awaiting a response. We urge others to write and...
View ArticleRemoving investor-owned hospitals is not a bail out-- it’s the right thing to...
Rep. Pramila Jayapal has been re-writing HR 676, the model improved Medicare for all legislation that has united and advanced a growing single payer movement since it was introduced into Congress in...
View ArticleA Tribute to Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
John Conyers confronted Nancy Pelosi on single payer health careBy Kay TillowIn the years since 2003 when Congressman John Conyers, Jr. first introduced HR 676, his national single payer, improved...
View ArticleNevada State AFL-CIO has been on record for Medicare for All since 2008
In the midst of the anti-Medicare for All position recently announced by the leaders of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, it is important to note that there has long been support for single payer...
View ArticleJoel Segal, one of the authors of Medicare for All HR 676 discuss universal...
Joel Segal was instrumental in writing H.R. 676, the original Medicare for All bill under Congressman John Conyers. It’s one of the gold standards.Joel Segal talks universal healthcarexxYouTube...
View ArticleNow is the time to work for model single payer legislation
Now is the time in the congressional calendar before bills are re-introduced when we can make necessary changes in the proposed single payer legislation.I believe that it is essential to have a model...
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