Singlepayer advocates protest Baucus
HELENA, Mont. (AP) Advocates for a government run health care system marched in the streets in several Montana cities Friday to protest U.S. Sen. Max Baucus' leading overhaul plan.
Single Payer Health Care Rally Boise Idaho
Rochester Now
Rochester For HR 676 collected 1,300 signatures in support of a national single-payer system. We marched to the Federal Building and presented them to Slaughter’s aides. Copies were delivered to our senators. Although polls have shown 85 percent of Americans support major overhaul of our system, and 65 percent believe we should adopt a system that covers everyone “under a program like Medicare that is run by the government and financed by taxpayers,” our representatives say HR 676 won’t pass, and prefer to “piece this thing together,” as President Obama said.
Advocates of single-payer health plan hold rallies
HELENA - Activists pushing for government-funded health coverage of all citizens took after U.S. Sen. Max Baucus and private health insurers again Friday at rallies across the state, but they also had something to cheer about.
Last week, a U.S. House committee amended a major health reform bill to allow individual states to set up a Medicare-for-all system, also known as a "single-payer" system, that covers everyone equally.
Letter to the Seattle Times
On Single Payer, Himmelstein Says Howard Dean is a Liar
There’s been virtually no stories about labor’s support for HR 676 [Representative John Conyers' single-payer legislation], despite the fact it’s been endorsed by 554 union organizations in 49 states and by 130 Central Labor Councils. But we heard plenty when Andy Stern, the president of the SEIU sat down with Lee Scott, the CEO of Wal-mart to discuss solutions to the nation’s health care crisis. Those two are experts on providing health care to workers? What about the nurses and doctors who support single-payer and got dragged out of, and arrested in Max Baucus’s senate hearings in Washington, DC? If doctors and nurses had been arrested for any other political issue it would have been the lead story in every newspaper and online edition. Doctors and nurses never deliberately get arrested -- that’s news!
Single Payer Action Confronts Tim Kaine
Healthcare Protest in front of Evan Bayh's offices Monday 4:30-6:30. Will be in Ft Wayne with Kos County! His vote is critical! Get involved
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WTF is wrong with Howard Dean???
The only reason I can think of why Dean is lying about Obamacare is to keep the cash coming in to DFA - which is why I refuse to give them any money.
You know, I have been noodling around with an idea that admittedly, I haven't gotten very far with. I am not a rich person, but I have a nice home, a good job, can put food on the table and can afford health care. I would love to create a foundation that would pre-pay the costs of health care - routine, preventive care and outstanding medical bills - for those who aren't getting that care now. Maybe for a family that has fallen on hard times. Maybe for people who need care that their insurance company won't pay for. Maybe to help pay out-of-pocket costs, co-pays and deductibles that are keeping someone from getting the care they need.
I know there are a lot of people like me, who used to give the Democratic Party, and organizations like Dean's, money on a regular basis to fight the good fight - and I stopped doing it because I no longer felt it was a good use for my money, and no longer felt the fight that was allegedly being waged was the one I wanted to participate in.
The fight for a better health care system has to keep going, but in the meantime, I just feel like there's something more I could do, or something more that, if a lot of people joined forces, could help more people now.
I don't know - I just feel so helpless sometimes, and whether it's selfish of me or not, need to do something tangible that makes someone else's life better.
Baucus is Corrupted
Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee Should NOT Be Deciding Health Care for America
“They are too corrupted by corporate health industry profiteers donations to give America the health care policy it needs.
According to OpenSecrets.org over his career Baucus has taken donations from:
The Insurance Industry: $1,170,313
Health Professionals $1,016,276
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Industry $734,605
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $541,891
Health Services/HMOs $439,700
“THAT IS A GRAND TOTAL OF $3,902,785.
Can we trust Baucus to put aside the profits of the industries that have kept him in the senate? Will he put the people’s necessities ahead of the profits of his contributors? Baucus has shown his bias and should be removed from leading the health care reform.
“It is time to remove Baucus from the leadership of health care reform, and to vote him OUT of office.
Read the whole story: http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/may/max_baucus_should_no.php
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