Single-Payer 50 State Strategy
The idea for this diary was inspired by Ozzie's diary "Illinois Single Payer Drama Week". The Illinois legislature has started work on HB 311.I'd love to see some action on the federal level with...
View ArticleJohn Conyers on C-Span Tonight for Single Payer/HR 676
John Conyers and other Members of Congress will take to the floor of the House of Representatives Tuesday evening, June 10, to lead a discussion of HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation. HR 676...
View Article2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors endorses HR676
Last month the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors endorsed HR676: "The United States National Health Insurance Act", a bill to provide the U.S. with a single payer health care system.According to this...
View ArticleSiCKO Effects: Suicide or Murder?
By Donna Smith, American SiCKO, Communications specialist, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing CommitteeTomorrow I'll have my third colonoscopy. Twice before, precancerous polyps...
View ArticleSiCKO Effects: Fired Up and Fighting for Justice
We're fired up and fightingBy Donna Smith, community organizerWASHINGTON, DC -- It was hot in these suits -- really hot. But what a fired up protest we had in DC yesterday! And we followed that loud...
View ArticleIs Healthcare a Post-Election Human Right?
By Donna SmithCHICAGO – Over the past 365 days, I have spent 72 days on a bus touring various states and talking about healthcare reform. I’ve learned a lot about a lot. I’ve been in 39 states and...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform: My Number One Issue
Certainly, in this time of great uncertainty in the United States, many issues are of importance to me, and indeed to us all. The poor state of our economy, and the handout of billions to the very...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism & Health Insurance Company Costs
The United States is the only developed country (I will be using this term and the OECD interchangably) that relies on private for-profit insurance companies for a major part of its health care system....
View ArticleMonday, 12/22, Call in day Single-Payer Healthcare
December 22nd: National Call-In Day for HR 676!!GIVE AMERICA A GIFT. NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HR 676, Single-Payer
View ArticleHealth Care Summit, Here Is How The System Is Destroying People
Today, The White House is hosting a gathering of people who want to take part in shaping the future health care system. A lot of the participants simply want to keep the same basic system going:...
View ArticleThe White House Forum on Health Care is Window Dressing
The is a disappointing report from the last White House Forum on Health Reform held in Los Angeles on April 6. My general impression is that the attendees are being used as window dressing to preserve...
View ArticleAdvocating for Single-Payer: Could Congressman Sestak be the Real Democrat in...
This Sunday Congressman Joe Sestak (7th PA), who is still considering running for the Pennsylvania Senate seat, will take part in a town meeting on health care. My hope is that the compelling case for...
View ArticleThe Public Option is Dead, Long Live Expanded Medicare
There's confusion over the terminology of health care as interest groups jockey for name turf. The term "public option" is being used by several camps to describe uh, what exactly. One plan, such as...
View ArticleThe Pompous or the Populists: Who Will Win the Healthcare Debate?
You'd think after eight long and ugly years listening to pompous and wealthy officials slam their versions of social hatred down our gullets, we'd have sent those folks packing for good on January 20,...
View ArticleCBO Shows Why We Need Single-Payer
I just finished reading the Congressional Budget Office's report to Sen. Ted Kennedy which looked at the Affordable Health Choices Act. And the report makes clear why single-payer is the only logical...
View ArticleHealthcare: Change the Debate Support a Real Public Option
Dear Kos - The time is now to push the healthcare debate towards a single-payer solution. We have the support of over 85 members of Congress, millions of Americans and countless physicians.I hope you...
View ArticleThe Myth of Cost Sharing "Affordability"
Over the last few months, we've been treated to a continuous barrage of alleged Democrats pushing various versions of "public option" - a private/public optional hybrid that preserves the role of...
View ArticleBaby Selling Economics 101: Threatened by Healthcare Changes?
The religious right aggressively promotes adoption. There is nothing wrong with adoption and many (most?) adoptions are positive for child, birth mother, and adoptive parents. But, few people realize...
View ArticleJo Bonner(R-AL) Will Ask The CBO to Score Single Payer
At least he said he would.I was at Representative Jo Bonner's town hall meeting in Tillman's Corner, Alabama. My question to Rep. Bonner was:I would like to start my own business, but I am over 40...
View ArticleThe Public Option Was Not A Compromise For Single Payer...
unless you were compromising with yourself. I'm sick of hearing the "public option was the compromise". No, it wasn't. You can't compromise on something when it's the only policy for which you have...
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