News & Video
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Video of Dr. Quentin Young in San Francicso
Please watch this video featuring Dr. Quentin Young at our August 25th meeting. Dr. Young speaks about the current political climate regarding the national debate on single payer, and why it is crucial for us to continue organizing in the wake of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Video was shot by our friends…
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The Battle for Single Payer in San Francisco
In June 2011, a handful of overpaid lobbyists and executives from the health insurance industry met in San Francisco to lay plans to extract more money from American healthcare. But outside the conference hall, hundreds of activists demonstrated to demand single payer healthcare that would eliminate the insurance company middlemen entirely.
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Medicare for All is the Democrats’ best option
Medicare for all is Democrats’ best option ROBERT REICH Sunday, August 21, 2011 Remember the health care debate? Congressional Republicans refused to consider a single-payer system that would automatically pool risks. They wouldn’t even consider giving people the option of buying into it… …The president and the Democrats caved…. They came up with a compromise…
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U.S. vs. Canada on Physician Administrative Costs
From the July 2011 edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Please click on the link below to read this important and informative article by Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD. Download PDF here “This study traces the average net income of Canadian physicians over 150 years to determine the impact of medicare. It also compares…
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Updates from L.A. & S.F. Rallies to celebrate Social Security
CARA Alert– August 17, 2011 A publication of the California Alliance for Retired Americans 1000+ RALLY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY IN S.F. AND L.A TO TELL SENATOR FEINSTEIN TO BE A CHAMPION Today, close to 1000 seniors, people with disabilities, workers, parents, students and children rallied in San Francisco and Los Angeles to demand that Senator Feinstein…
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Medicare is the Solution, Not the Problem
23 July 11 By Robert Reich, Robert Reich’s Blog Link to the Online Blog here. ot only is Social Security on the chopping block in order to respond to Republican extortion. So is Medicare. But Medicare isn’t the nation’s budgetary problems. It’s the solution. The real problem is the soaring costs of health care that…
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Watch the Summer Conference Live!
Streaming will start at 9am on Saturday, July 16th and continue until the end of the conference at 5pm. Instructions: Go to: www.justin.tv Search for Singlepayerpnhp SecondLife Instructions: SecondLife Avatars will find the conference at the 3D World Theater http://slurl.com/secondlife/MetaMix%20Studios/178/14/33 To ask questions about the presentations during Summer Conference use this email: singlepayerpnhp@gmail.com Backup Channel…
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Call Congress July 14th & 15th and tell them NO CUTS!
Call Congress and the President July 14 & 15 Tell them No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, & Medicaid and Expand Medicare to Everyone! Please call President Obama, our U.S. Senators, and your Congress Member today, and Friday to demand no cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. We want Medicare expanded to everyone. These…
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NOW Conference Calls for Better Social Security Benefits and “Medicare for All”
June 27, 2011 The National Organization for Women wrapped up its 45th National Conference in Tampa, Fla. on Sunday, June 26, setting NOW’s policy and agenda for the coming year and looking toward the 2012 elections and beyond. Topping NOW’s policy agenda are improved Social Security benefits for women and a “Medicare for All” single-payer…
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Should universal care advocates bite their tongues on Single-payer?
From RemappingDebate.org Written by: Mike Alberti | Health care Published: June 8, 2011 Don Bechler, who chairs another California-based single-payer advocacy group called Single Payer Now, elaborated: “Private insurance is bad for seniors. Seniors use the health care system the most, so the problems with the private insurance market affect them the most.” “We’re advocating…