On October 30, thirteen brave people sat in front of the entrance of Independence Blue Cross (IBC), in order to demand that IBC change its practice of pretending to be a non profit, while spending millions lobbying against real health care reform. They were arrested for exercising their constitutional right to protest. A [...]

By Margaret Flowers, M.D.
Let me begin by saying that I don’t have any desire to be arrested. I am a pediatrician with three teenagers and a husband who would prefer that I do not spend time in jail. I have never actually spent the night in jail and I imagine it’s [...]

My name is Matt Hendrickson, I am an Emergency Physician and the Vice Chair of the Physicians For a National Program, Los Angeles Chapter. Yesterday I was arrested at the Cigna offices in Glendale, California.

From Salvador Sandoval MD (Merced, CA)
I would like to report on an encounter with Tea Party people and a semi-town hall meeting with Congressman Dennis Cardoza of the Blue Dog Coalition. There isn’t a formal PNHP chapter here in the conservative San Joaquin Valley town of Merced, California. However, through the Journey for Justice we [...]

From Greg M. Silver, MD (Clearwater, FL)
Lots of activity in the Tampa Bay region. As the battle heats up, I have appeared on WEDU-TV, our local PBS affiliate, for a Special Roundtable presentation on Health Care Reform on 7/17, as well as the “Kathy Fountain Show” on WTVT 13 our local Fox affiliate [...]

From Jeoffry Gordon, M.D., M.P.H. (San Diego, CA)
We had a good Medicare birthday rally on July 30th.
Next week is busy for me.
Sunday: Single payer presentation at Mission Hills United Church of Christ.
Tuesday: Medical Grand Rounds on Single Payer Reform at Sharp Coronado Hospital
Wednesday: I will represent PNHP and single payer on local PBS affiliate KPBS’s [...]

Submitted by Henry Kahn, MD (Atlanta, GA)
I appeared live in a 5-minute segment of a Sunday morning TV public affairs program on WXIA (11-Alive, the local NBC affiliate). The producers called me 2 days earlier to ask me to come in for an on-air “discussion” with another local physician (unidentified) who had a “different [...]

Submitted by Margaret Flowers, MD (Maryland PNHP)
On Saturday morning, July 11, 2009, advocates for a Single Payer Healthcare system hit the streets of northeast Baltimore looking to pick up support, via signed Petitions, for their cause. The canvassing area covered “Rodgers Forge,” which is an historic community located just north of the city line, and [...]

July 17, 2009
The group here in DC (visiting PNHP members and interns) has done many visits to Congressional offices this week. Most have been with the health legislative aides (LA’s) who vary in their backgrounds and experience. A few are new and need basic information on single payer but most are quite knowledgeable [...]

We just learned that the Illinois House of Representatives adopted a resolution on May 31st, 2009 urging Congress to pass The United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) which would provide universal comprehensive health care coverage to all residents of the United States. The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Mary Flowers, acknowledges that “Americans already [...]