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AMERICA: THE LAST GREAT INDEPENDENT NATION
As members of Congress gathered in Capitol Hill today to try and finally ram through their $1.3 Trillion version of a Healthcare Bill, you may be witnessing the end of America as we have known it for the last 233 years. Despite pushback from Republicans,...
Tags: Healthcare, Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Medicare, nanny State, Barack Obama, Single payer
A public option isn't an 'entitlement'
I was surprised to see some of the responses to my most recent post, particularly those in which some of the conservative posters referred to the possibility of a public option in health care as "just another entitlement" and suggested that national health...
Tags: health care, single payer, government option
The Cigna 7 Arrested in Chicago: Medicare for All!
The visuals are arresting. Seven supporters of a single payer, Medicare for All solution to our health care crisis get dragged out of Cigna headquarters in Chicago just yesterday: October 8, 2009. This short video captures the heart of the...
Tags: Cigna, Medicare for All, single payer, public option, health care reform, Margaret Malone, Chicago, civil disobedience, Cigna 7
Mad as Hell Doctors Hit Des Moines Today in National Tour for Health Care Reform
Frustrated with the health care ‘options' coming out of Washington, D.C., six "Mad as Hell" Oregon physicians began, on September 8, 2009, an unprecedented road trip across America to advocate for a single-payer health care system. They...
Tags: Mad As Hell Tour, Dr. Gene Uphoff, Physicians for a National Health Program, Health Care Now, Single Payer Action, Code Pink, Progressive Democrats of America, Jobs with Justice, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Dr. Paul Hochfeld, single payer, Dr. Mike Huntington, documentary “Health, Money and Fear”
Mad as Hell Doctors Kick Off National Tour for Universal Health Care
Today six dedicated Oregon physicians take the message of Universal Health Care "on the road" in their branded Mad as Hell Doctors Motor Home. Their destination: Washington D.C. Their goal: to start a citizen movement that will send a message...
Tags: universal health care, mad as hell doctors, single payer, Twitter, Facebook, reality television, political activism, blog, internet, YouTube, Dr. Paul Hochfeld
Health Reform Debate in the Streets of Denver, Colorado
The video footage captured a live, sporadic, informal debate in the streets of Denver, Colorado, between rally participants and counter-demonstrators over the issue of health insurance reform in the United States of America. The purpose...
Tags: Socialism, health care, single payer, universal health care, Barack Obama, Denver, Colorado, Senator, Mark Udall, debate, Colorado State Capitol, health care reform
The Impatient American and Healthcare
When I saw the sign about soccer star Beckham: Go Home Fraud (with a no symbol over his jersey number), I thought of President Obama’s approval ratings. At barely six months, he has dropped from a 69% approval rating to less than 50%. ...
Tags: healthcare, single payer, Obama, approval rating
'Public option', 'single-payer' advocates rally for health Insurance reform in Denver, Colorado
The Colorado Democratic Party, Organizing For America (OFA), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) campaign "Colorado Change That Works" held a rally at the Colorado State Capitol building in support of President Barack Obama's health insurance...
Tags: HealthCareforALLColorado, Organizing For America, President, Barack Obama, Senator, Michael Bennet, Mark Udall, Dawn Engle, Diane Lucas, public option, health insurance, reform, single payer, universal health care, Denver, Colorado, State Capitol, rally
Denver tragedy sobers ‘public option’ health care rallies.
Small crowds gathered on Thursday, July 23, in Denver, Colorado, at the offices of Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) to rally for health care reform of some kind, namely between President Barack Obama’s plan enshrined in...
Tags: Zumante Lucero, Colorado, Senator, Mark Udall, Michael Bennet, single payer, health care reform, public option, rally, MoveOn Denver Council
Put Single Payer on the Table
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility
Single-payer is the system that removes private insurance companies from the picture; the government pays all the bills, but health-care delivery remains private. People still get their choice of what doctor to go to and what hospital to use. Single-payer...
Tags: single payer, health insurance
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