No Insurance Company Left Behind
3-11-2010 – 4:18 pm | Comments

By Katie Robbins – | HealthCareNOW.org
On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest” of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health …

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REP. WEINER WITHDRAWS SINGLE PAYER AMENDMENT FROM CURRENT HEALTH CARE DEBATE
11-6-2009 – 4:56 pm | Comments
REP. WEINER WITHDRAWS SINGLE PAYER AMENDMENT  FROM CURRENT HEALTH CARE DEBATE

Washington, DC – Today, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, released the following statement on his decision to withdraw his single payer amendment …

Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington
11-6-2009 – 4:37 pm | Comments
Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington

Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s single payer alternative: “Within the next few days, the …

Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need and Crave
11-5-2009 – 6:42 am | Comments
Shut Down This Murderous Racket: Change We Need and Crave

By Matt Reichel | Dissident Voice
Al Capone is awake in his grave in awe at the criminal racket promulgated by the health care industry: a murderous multi-billion dollar industry that keeps the world’s Superpower in …

Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the Robust Public Option
10-27-2009 – 10:43 am | Comments
Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the Robust Public Option

Crunch Time and a Grassroots View of the Robust Public Option
By PDA-Chicago Steering Committee: Bill Bianchi, Lorin Klugman, Arlene Gloria Hirsch, Allan Nowakowski, and Jim Rhodes
The PDA-Chicago steering Committee wants to weigh in on …

Clearing up some misconceptions
10-19-2009 – 7:39 pm | Comments
Clearing up some misconceptions

By Laura Bonham, PDA Deputy Director and Communications Director
As the frenzied healthcare debate inches forward under a cloud of misinformation, we want to reiterate that PDA is firmly committed to Medicare for All, single-payer healthcare.
Our …

Progressive view on health care: what does the future hold?
10-2-2009 – 5:23 pm | Comments
Progressive view on health care: what does the future hold?

By Byron DeLear | Progressive Examiner
Progressivism concerns itself with whats next. Because if you get it right, youll have prepared more thoroughly for whats going to happen.
What does the future hold?
Progressives also deal in …

Experience argues for Medicare for All
9-12-2009 – 10:37 am | Comments
Experience argues for Medicare for All

By Lara Wright, M.D.
I am a family physician who has firsthand experience about the need for health insurance reform. In 1999, after completing a residency in family practice, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. …

Video: Can’t Go Home
9-2-2009 – 6:47 pm | Comments
Video:  Can’t Go Home

What do you think of when you imagine an American living in exile, unable to return home? This is a profile of a couple living in Canada who can’t return to the US because …