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Democrats Have Taken Medicare For All Off The Table

October 12, 2021 Russell Mokhiber, Common Dreams. Educate! Democrats, Health Care, Medicare for all, NIMA

Democrats in Congress and their supporters inside the beltway have taken single payer off the table. Instead of pursuing Medicare for All they are pursuing incremental improvements in Medicare—also known as Medicare for Some. They are also pursuing single payer at the state level. Long time national single payer advocates, like Dr. Anne Scheetz of the Illinois Single Payer Coalition, feel betrayed by both efforts. Has any single payer group come out against Medicare for Some? "There is a new group called National Single Payer," Dr. Scheetz told Corporate Crime Reporter in an interview last month. "It's just getting started. But we understand that incremental improvements in Medicare are not going to move us closer to single payer and we also understand that working for state based single payer is not going to get us closer to national single payer."

Celebrate Medicare’s Anniversary: Join Call For Single Payer

July 23, 2017 Health Over Profit for Everyone, www.healthoverprofit.org Create! health, Health Care, Medicare for all, NIMA

By Health Over Profit. Medicare’s 52nd anniversary takes place on July 30, at the beginning of the August Congressional Recess. Actions are being planned across the country to celebrate and call for National Improved Medicare for All. Check out the list below for an action near you. Whether your member of Congress is a supporter or not, there is something that you can do. Show a movie, hold a rally, go to their office, celebrate with a party. And bring this message wherever your member of Congress goes throughout the summer recess! The time for Medicare for All is now.

Sen. Sanders Has His Health Priorities Backwards

June 29, 2017 Margaret Flowers, www.healthoverprofit.org Organize! health, Medicare for all, NIMA, Single payer health care

By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. We thought that Senator Sanders was on track to introduce and advocate for a national improved Medicare for All bill, but Tuesday he stated publicly at a Planned Parenthood rally that his priorities are to first defeat the Republican health plan, then to improve the Affordable Care Act with a public option or allowing people to buy-in to Medicare, and then we can work for single payer.

We Need A Senate Version Of Improved Medicare For All

June 2, 2017 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions health, Health Care, NIMA, Single payer health care

By Margaret Flowers. It's time to fight for a solution to the ongoing healthcare crisis in the United States. We are spending twice as much per person each year on health care than most other industrialized nations, enough to provide comprehensive high quality health care to everyone. HR 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act has 112 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, a record number since it was first introduced in 2003. HR 676 is a gold standard framework for a national health insurance. A Senate version of the bill is needed in order to put us in a strong position to achieve a high quality healthcare system. Although Senator Sanders campaigned heavily on Medicare for All, he back-tracked last fall after the election and said that he would not introduce a single payer bill. Activists urged him to change his mind and Senator Sanders did agree to introduce a Medicare for All bill, but it falls short of HR 676 in critical areas

Time To Fight For Health Care For Everyone

February 3, 2017 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Create! health, Health Care, National Improved Medicare for All, NIMA, Single payer health care

The new campaign is called "Health Over Profit for Everyone (HOPE): Making health the bottom line." It has the sole focus of shifting the political culture in the United States so that National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA) is the only politically-feasible solution in the next four years. We can do it! Just as we have worked together in broad coalitions to put reclassification of the internet on the table and to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, we also have the power to win NIMA. A strong group of NIMA advocates have joined to form the steering committee. We've created an activism website at HealthOverProfit.org that contains information and tools you'll need to educate, organize and mobilize. We'll provide national conference calls and coordinate days of action.

Newsletter – Unite To Change The Status Quo

January 28, 2017 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, health, Immigrant Rights, Militarized police, NIMA, Single payer health care, Trump

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. The broad social movement in the United States has been growing for a number of years, most visibly in recent years with the Occupy Movement and then immigrant's rights, Indigenous, workers' and Black Lives Matter movements, to name a few. As the inauguration protests, the Women's Marches and the GOP protests in Philly showed this week, the broad social movement seems to be growing exponentially and some are escalating their tactics. We need to focus the movement power to achieve real change. The new Health Over Profits for Everyone campaign strikes at the heart of a corrupt system. When we put in place a single payer system we will be defeating corporate-domination of government and the corruption that is rife in the two parties. We will be transform from the selfish ethic of profit even if it costs tens of thousands of lives, to working together as a community for the good of each of us. We will be defeating the false idolatry of privatization...

This Is How We Win National Improved Medicare For All

January 27, 2017 Margaret Flowers, www.healthoverprofit.org Organize! Health Care, NIMA, Obama, Single payer health care, Trump

By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. Few people outside of single payer activist circles are aware that Senator Sanders introduced an amendment on the Senate floor in December 2009 that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a single payer health system. It was the first time in the history of the United States that single payer legislation was brought to the floor for a vote. Sadly, it was a Republican doctor who killed the amendment. This happened during the height of the health reform process in the Senate; the House had already passed its version of the legislation. It was the result of a year of pressure to include a single payer health system, National Improved Medicare for All (NIMA), in the health reform debate, grassroots pressure that included nonviolent direct action.

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