Dr. Paris Successfully Interrupts Trump’s Rally with Single Payer Message
By Margaret Flowers If you were watching the live stream of President Trump’s rally in Nashville, TN on Wednesday, you may have noticed that at one point shouting arose to his right causing him to wave his right hand dismissively, pause and turn his back to the audience. When he turned back around, Trump said, […]
Nothing Short of a Single-Payer Health Plan Will Do
By Labor Fightback Since the enactment of the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” (ACA) in 2009, congressional Republicans have vowed to “repeal and replace Obamacare.” For seven years that promise was never anything more than a campaign slogan — no Republican ever offered an alternative health plan to Barack Obama’s signature legislation. In the […]
“Ryancare” Dead on Arrival: Can We Please Now Try Single Payer?
By Ellen Brown for Web of Debt The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing. — Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000) The new American Health Care Act has been unveiled, and critics […]
Single Payer – Bernie Sanders – Mark Cuban – Ralph Nader – Indivisible — Not
By Russell Mokhiber for Single Payer Action It’s not a question of whether. It’s a question of when. With the accelerating collapse of Obamneycare, it’s only a matter of time. Single payer is on the way. But time matters for millions of Americans who are being squeezed by the Democrats defending Obamneycare and the Republicans […]
Placing a Price Tag on the Value of Life; An in-depth look at health reform
By Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance. The healthcare fight is front and center right now for many reasons. The ‘Affordable Care Act’ (ACA) is manifesting itself in rising premiums and out-of-pocket costs that make it difficult for people who have health insurance to afford health care. Twenty-nine million people currently lack health insurance, and that […]
Medical Students Rally In Philly for Single Payer
By Mensah M. Dean for Philly.com. Above photo: ANTHONY BELTRAN / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER. Temple University student Karim Saraihmed (left) and Richard Bruno, 37, a founding member of SNaHP who specializes in primary care and public health in Baltimore. Philadelphia, PA – While political heavyweights in Washington slug it out over the merits of the Affordable Care Act […]
iPhones Are Not Why People Lack Health Insurance
By Stephen Pimpare in the Washington Post Laziness isn’t why people are poor The real reasons people suffer poverty don’t reflect well on the United States. In response to a question about his party’s plan to increase the cost of health insurance, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) suggested that people should “invest in their own health […]
Insurance Companies Just Accidentally Made The Case For Medicare For All
By Daniel Marans for Huffington Post America’s Health Insurance Plans, the trade group for commercial health insurance companies, published an infographic this month breaking down how the industry spends every dollar it receives in premiums. The group apparently crafted the visual aid to defend rising premiums its member companies are charging customers. But the chart also inadvertently […]
Republicans Introduce Health Plan; Already Divided Over Basics
By Margaret Flowers On March 6, 2017, Republican leadership in the House of Representatives introduced their healthcare plan for discussion and a vote in two committees, Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means. The plan is to expedite the process of ‘repeal and replace’ using the budget reconciliation process, which only requires 50 votes to […]
Reportback: Seattle Town Hall
Linda Jansen attended the Health Care Town Hall held by newly-elected Pramila Jayapal in Seattle, WA. She brought the banner pictured above and stood outside the town hall where she handed out over 200 flyers that had the graphics attached below. Linda reports that she was received well by the mixed-age crowd and received words […]