Single payer health care

Time To Fight For Health Care For Everyone

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.

Medicare For All Should Replace Obamacare: Column

January 14, 2017 Marcia Angell, www.usatoday.com Educate! Health Care, Obamacare, Single payer health care

By Marcia Angell for US Today - Even before the election of Donald Trump, Obamacare was in trouble. Premiums on the government exchanges for individual policies are projected to increase an average of 11% next year, nearly four times the increase for employer-based family policies. And some large insurers are pulling out of that market altogether in parts of the country. Those who buy insurance on the exchanges often find that even with subsidies, they can't afford to use the insurance because of mounting deductibles (about $6,000 for individual Bronze plans). It has become clear that health insurance is not the same as health care.

Obamacare And Single Payer

January 13, 2017 Russell Mokhiber, www.counterpunch.org Create! Obamacare, Single payer health care

By Russell Mokhiber for Counter Punch - In his farewell address, President Obama bluntly laid down a challenge – “If anyone can put together a plan that is demonstrably better than the improvements we’ve made to our health care system – that covers as many people at less cost – I will publicly support it.” There is such a plan. Not only does it cover as many people as Obamacare, it covers everyone. And at less cost than Obamacare. Everybody in. Nobody out. And Obama did publicly support it. Before he turned against it. That plan was put together more than fifty years ago – it’s called single payer.

Momentive Workers On Strike For Health Care

December 12, 2016 Dr. Andy Coates, www.unionsforsinglepayer.org/ Resist! Health Care, Labor, Single payer health care, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Dr. Andy Coates for All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care - HR 676. Albany, NY - Just north of where the Mohawk River joins the Hudson, in upstate New York, the highly skilled members of IUE/CWA Local 81359, have been on strike since the beginning of November. A chemical plant, once owned by General Electric, today Momentive Performance Materials, would like to drive workers back to a minimum wage with no benefits. The IUE/CWA local endured setbacks in two recent contracts and this time has said NO MORE. One important issue is the right to retire at age 60--with health benefits. The company wants to eliminate retiree health benefits altogether. This would make retirement unaffordable. The workers at the plant live with a high risk of illness due to occupational exposure to dangerous chemicals.

Sanders, Single Payer And Death By Democrat

December 3, 2016 Russell Mokhiber, www.singlepayeraction.org Organize! Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Health Care, Single payer health care

By Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action. Lori Kearns is the health policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). She’s been making the rounds in recent weeks telling single payer supporters that Senator Sanders will not introduce his single payer bill into the Senate next year. Why not? Because party unity is more important than single payer. Sanders apparently believes that single payer will get in the way of electing a Democratic Senate in 2018. Wouldn’t want to confront Democratic Senate candidates with the deaths of their constituents due to Obamacare, would you? One reason why Sanders soared during the primary was his constant refrain that we need to cover every American with a single payer health care system. This resonated with the American people...

Time For Real Left To Double Down On Single Payer Medicare For All

November 22, 2016 Bruce A. Dixon, www.blackagendareport.com Strategize! Left, Medicare, Single payer health care

By Bruce A. Dixon for Black Agenda Report - Under President Obama, Democrats threw away their mandate to fight for health care for. Instead they let insurance companies concoct Obamacare, sketchy policies, skimpy coverage, high deductibles and co-pays for half the uninsured and empty promises for the other half. A Gallup Poll confirms that 58% of Americans want to see Obamacare replaced with a single payer system to guarantee health care, not health insurance for everybody.

Newsletter: Elections Expose the Oligarchs

October 9, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Austerity, Banking and Finance, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Corruption, Democracy, Donald Trump, health insurance industry, Healthcare, Hillary Clinton, Neoliberalism, oligarchy, Sexism, Single payer health care, Tax Evasion, Wikileaks

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The 2016 presidential election has shown how the duopoly, the two parties that represent big business interests and the wealthiest, are corrupted in ways that prevent the people’s voices from being heard, their necessities being met and the planet being protected from human greed. During the campaigns, leaks have given people a behind-the-scenes look at how the parties operate and research on the candidates shows their personal failures. They give voters an image of elites who behave as if the law does not apply to them and who put themselves ahead of the public interest. Last Friday was a day of embarrassment for both the Republican and Democratic Parties. A tape showing Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault in lewd ways has gotten the bulk of attention, but Wikileaks also released thousands of pages of The Podesta Emails, 2,060 emails and 170 attachments. John Podesta is the ultimate insider.

Medical School: An invitation For Single Payer Activism

June 26, 2016 Josh Faucher, www.student.pnhp.org Organize! health, Health Care, Medicare for all, Single payer health care

By Josh Faucher for Students for a National Health Program. Each year, I’m impressed with the reality that many of our most enthusiastic and active members are students early in their medical school journeys, many of whom haven’t had much contact with patients yet. When I first began medical school, it was easy to get caught up in the praise and aggrandizement that was heaped upon us – the constant congratulations for joining a profession as well-respected and impactful as medicine. It is true that physicians can have a profound impact on the lives of our patients, curing terrible diseases and lessening the suffering caused by chronic ailments. In looking at the nature of the health care system as a whole, however, I have seen clear examples of how access is rationed based on a patient’s financial resources, and how seeking health care can leave patients vulnerable to harm that affects their livelihoods and economic security.

Newsletter – Lift The Veil; See Reality, Take Action

May 21, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, climate crisis, Healthcare, Living Wage, Medicare for all, Single payer health care, Social Security, TPP, Wages, Worker Rights

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. It is graduation time and our youth are inheriting a dysfunctional economy while they are saddled with the highest debt ever. This situation creates a downward spiral in which new graduates delay meaningful participation in the economy, such as buying a house or starting a new business, while they try to pay off their debt. Chuck Collins advocates for one solution: higher taxes on the wealthy that are used to reduce the cost of education. This is being done in Washington State. The reality for most youth today is a very different situation than that experienced by the older generation; it is one of intergenerational injustice that must be confronted and corrected or the negative impacts will last a long time. Many people no longer believe the lies we are told to keep us from demanding solutions. A veil is being lifted as people understand how the system is rigged against them and how they need to work together to fight for a better future.

Single Payer Health Care Groups Converge On Chicago

September 21, 2015 David Johnson, www.popularresistance.org Organize! Chicago, Public Health, Single payer health care

By David Johnson - On Friday Oct. 30th until Sunday November 1st in Chicago Illinois, the largest ever national conference of single-payer / Medicare for All healthcare advocates will convene. The conference is jointly sponsored by the LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER, HEALTHCARE NOW, ONE PAYER STATES, and the PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM. The conference will begin Friday afternoon with a demonstration in front of a ( not to be named ) office building of a notorious healthcare company profiteer. That evening presentations will be made by the national president of the Steelworkers Union ( Leo Gerard ) and the National President of the National Nurses Union ( Jean Ross ). Musical entertainment will be provided by Labor singer / songwriter Anne Feeney.

Medical Student National Actions For ‘Medicare For All’

September 13, 2015 Students for a National Health Program, www.popularresistance.org Resist! health, Health Care, Medicare for all, Single payer health care

By Students for a National Health Program. United States - Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) – working in coalition with the American Medical Student Association, WhiteCoats4BlackLives, the Latino Medical Student Association, Universities Allied for Essential Medicine, and Pre-Health Dreamers – will hold teach-ins, rallies, and candlelight vigils to remember the millions of people in our country who remain uninsured, underinsured and underserved by our current health care system. We will also underscore the need for a more fundamental health reform – a nonprofit, publicly financed, single-payer health system. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not guarantee universal health care. Unfortunately, the Affordable Care Act is neither universal nor affordable.

Obamacare Enrollees Highly Dissatisfied With Health Coverage

August 10, 2015 Kate Randall, www.wsws.org Educate! ACA, Health Insurance, Medicare, Obamacare, Single payer health care

By Kate Randall for WSWS - A new study, however, shows that those enrolled through Obamacare are more dissatisfied with their coverage than any other group of insured Americans. The poll from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, research arm of the consulting firm, finds that only 30 percent of people with insurance through the ACA exchanges are satisfied with their plans, mainly due to cost. By contrast, 58 percent of Medicare enrollees are satisfied, while 42 percent of those with insurance through their employer are satisfied. The most affordable plans offered for sale on the ACA exchanges come with deductibles in excess of $5,000 annually and other out-of-pocket costs. Data from the Deloitte poll shows that enrollment in an Obamacare plan is no guarantee that health care coverage will be affordable or accessible. Researchers surveyed 3,887 people who had purchased health insurance on either the state exchanges or the federal web site, HealthCare.gov. The poll found that only 24 percent of ACA enrollees felt they could get affordable care when they needed it, and an abysmal 16 percent felt fully prepared to handle future health care costs.

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