The Green Party has championed a National, Single Payer, MEDICARE
FOR ALL program since its inception.
E V E R Y B O D
Y I N. N O B O D Y O U T.
Fri, 11.Sep.2009 | 07:04:34AM
Will the insurance and pharmaceutical companies prove they control
Washington, especially the majority Democrats who expect campaign
money from them? Get all the info
you need here.
Mon, 31.Aug.2009 | 11:00:45AM
Sign a petition getting Oregon doctors into the White House to
argueMedicare for All! Take the "Letter to
Obama" link on this page. >
Please watch the video on the linked page. All of us will learn
something from it >>
Sat, 22.Aug.2009 | 11:50:27PM
Fri, 14.Aug.2009 | 11:22:33PM
Sun, 02.Aug.2009 | 07:05:51PM
The industry and its backers are using fear tactics—as
they did in 1994—to tar a transparent and publicly accountable
healthcare option as "government-run healthcare." But what we have
today, Mr. Chairman, is Wall Street-run healthcare that has proven
itself an untrustworthy partner to its customers, to the doctors
and hospitals who deliver care and to the state and federal
governments that attempt to regulate it.
- Wendell Potter, heroic whistleblower and former CIGNA
Head of Corporate Communications
Jul 9, '09. Audio of
Senator BernieSanders talking with John Elliot.
Thu, 23.Jul.2009 | 05:27:17PM from Bill Moyers
Journal
What [President Obama] has essentially advocated is throwing
more money into the current system. He's treating the
symptom and he's not treating the underlying cause of our problem.
Our problem is that we spend two and a half times
as much per person on health care as the average of other advanced
countries, and we don't get our money's worth. So, now he
says, 'Okay, this is a terribly inefficient, wasteful system. Let's
throw some money into it.' - Marcia Angell
[President Obama would] like to be able to pull a rabbit out of a
hat, but he won't be able to. What he's running into is a tension
between increasing costs and increasing coverage. If you leave this profit oriented system in place, you can't
both control costs and increase coverage. You inevitably, if you
try to increase coverage, increase costs. Or if you try to
control cost, you decrease coverage.You cannot have a separation
between those two things. Cost and coverage must move together.” -
Trudy Lieberman
Wednesday, July 22.
Rep. Anthony Wiener will move to amend the Tri Committee Bill to
essentially replace it with HR 676 (Meaning medicare for all would
replace everything currently on the table. Yah!). Obviously this is
a huge step and a BIG PUSH is needed urgently.
Read about it here.
So many people clicked in such a short time, that some of you were
unable to get through. The IT genius behind Health Justice, Ken, is
working now to fix the problem, but it may mean an expensive
upgrade in our service to keep this rate up.
In any case, you should know that we have now sent over 205,000
faxes supporting single payer Medicare For All to Congress. So
don't stop now. Keep up the pressure.
MUST SEE: If you are like me you'll go through all 7 stages of
grief, hopefully ending in making you more active.
Tue, 14.Jul.2009 | 12:07:16PM Congressman Anthony Weiner [NY 14], will
introduce a single-payer amendment similar to HR 676 to the House
Energy and Commerce Committee's portion of the tri-committee
healthcare legislation. Call Chairman Henry Waxman at 202-225-3976
and ask him to vote YES on the amendment.
From Democracy
Now!Baucus to Meet with Single-Payer Advocates After
months of protests, Democratic Sen. Max Baucus has agreed to meet
with a delegation of leading single-payer national health plan
advocates on Wednesday [3 Jun]. Baucus chairs the Senate Finance
Committee and plays a key role in the debate over reforming the
healthcare system. He has repeatedly said a single-payer system is
off the table and has iced out single-payer advocates from
committee hearings.
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