On a cold and rainy December 2, while the Senate in Washington was slogging along debating health reform, a remnant troupe of public-option supporting Organizing for America stalwarts stood outside the corporate headquarters of WellPoint, Inc. in the center of downtown Indianapolis.  Minutes before their demonstration started, three single payer activists slipped in and out [...]

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#4 of 6)
Jacob Hacker’s ambiguous polls
By Kip Sullivan, JD
In Part 2 and Part 3 of this series I reviewed rigorous evidence from multiple sources supporting the statement that somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of Americans support a Medicare-for-all system. A reasonably conservative averaging of the more rigorously conducted research [...]

By Gabe Bullard | WFPL News
KY- About ten area residents gathered in Louisville Thursday to voice support for a single-payer health care plan.

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#3 of 6)
Informative polls show two-thirds support for single-payer
By Kip Sullivan, JD
In Part 2 of this six-part series, I reported on the results of two “citizen jury” experiments in which advocates for single-payer, managed competition, and high-deductible policies spoke to, and were questioned by, “juries” that were representative of America. [...]

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#2 of 6)
Citizen juries demonstrate massive support for single-payer
By Kip Sullivan, JD
“They contradicted both beltway and public opinion polls. The whole damn world seems to think the Clinton plan is the way to go. Yet they like the single-payer system, which isn’t even getting considered in Washington.”
That was how the [...]

Two-thirds of Americans support Medicare-for-all (#1 of 6)
Introduction to a Six-part Series
By Kip Sullivan, JD
“Americans are scared to death of single payer.”
These words were not uttered by some foaming-at-the mouth wingnut. They were written by Bernie Horn, a Senior Fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future, a member of Health Care for America Now, on [...]

In the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, two weavers promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes invisible to those unfit for their positions or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, they all pretend they see the new finery, fearing exposure as the incompetents [...]

Dear colleagues at Physicians for a National Health Program:
As you may know, the Federation of Associations for the Defense of Public Health (FADSP) is an organization of Spanish health professionals which for more than 25 years has sought to protect and improve our national health system, of which we have reason to be proud.
Through educational [...]

One of my professors years ago was a round little man who liked to warn us, with a twinkle in his eye, “Making predictions is very difficult, especially predictions about the future.”  Will a bill pass, in what form, and then what will the long term implications be?  It’s hard to predict.
The incomparable Dr John [...]

Posted at MichaelMoore.com
November 19th, 2009
Health Care, Essential to Democracy
by Katie Robbins and Andy Coates
Two weekends ago, after the bait and switch of a vote on single-payer for a vote on an anti-abortion amendment, we felt wizened to the possibility of unknown threats in the legislative churn on health reform. As insurance and pharmaceutical companies, [...]