By Paulette Garin | PDA Blog Contributor and Cross-posted from Paula’s Blog
As part of a recent medical exam, my doctor ordered blood work to evaluate my overall medical condition as well as follow up on …

A stellar group of guests spoke to over 80 callers, answering questions submitted in the PDA Chat Room. Minnesota Senator John Marty, Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for governor, spoke about single payer legislation in MN, with …

Satire: Top CEO Defends America’s Health Insurance Industry (press conference)
By Carmen Yarrusso | PDA Blog Contributor
Good morning. I’ll open with a brief comment and then take questions…
America’s health insurance industry is being …

By Don Monkerud | PDA Blog Contributor
Like pathetic knights of another era jousting at windmills, industry shrills attack health care reform, claiming it “tramples individual liberty” and stifles “free enterprise.”
Far from protecting individual liberty …

Let’s combine forces to form the Brownbagger Movement!
Here’s a suggestion for what we should call ourselves— us ordinary people, progressives, ethnic groups, students, labor unions, other workers, environmentalists, conservationists and poor and middle class people: …

Cross-posted from the ALF-CIO Blog
A new year brings with it lots of hope.
Let’s hope 2010 brings a health care reform bill that does not penalize working families with a tax on their coverage. Because right …

Cross-posted from Docudharma
In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not …

By Byron DeLear | PDA Blog Contributor
On Christmas, I wrote an article called “Health-care bill will stimulate economy and create tens of thousands of jobs“.
Within hours it had gone semi-viral with over 3000 hits on the …