The crisis is rooted in the current for-profit financing of health care. There is a solution. It is comprehensive reform based on non-profit, public financing
Ohio State AFL-CIO Convention Endorses HR 676
Cincinnati, --The Ohio State AFL-CIO became the fourth state federation to endorse HR 676 when the 589 convention delegates unanimously passed a strong resolution endorsing
ABCs of health care
By Dr. Susanne L. King
Berkshire Eagle
Friday, July 21
LENOX
There is no way to make health care affordable and contain costs when the insurance and drug
Health insurance for all, for real
By Susan Duerksen
SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
July 21, 2006
Nobody likes to hear the health care horror stories: emergency rooms clogged with sick people who otherwise can't
Massachusetts Health Care Reform Falls Short
By Rand Wilson and John Horgan
http://labornotes.org/index.shtml
from Labor Notes, #328, July 2006
Frustrated by the lack of action on health care reform at the national level, activists
A Telephone Worker Responds to Andy Stern on Single Payer Health Care
In a June 16th speech at the Brookings Institute in Washington, Andrew Stern, SEIU President, attacked a Canadian style single payer health care system as
PNHP NY Metro Chapter Responds to Citizens Health Care Working Group Recommendations
THE CITIZENS HEALTH CARE WORKING GROUP LISTENED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC WITH ONE EAR
By Len Rodberg, Ph.D.
Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
We
Single-Payer Comeback?
Marilyn Werber Serafini
(mserafini@nationaljournal.com)
National Journal
June 17, 2006
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is plotting the comeback of a liberal idea that's been locked in a closet for
San Francisco Labor Council Unanimously Passes Resolution in Support of SB840
Resolution in Support of SB840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act (KuehlĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Health Care Plan to Cover All California's) & HR 676, the United States
The Best Medical Care In The U.S.
How Veterans Affairs transformed itself -- and what it means for the rest of us
By Catherine Arnst
Business Week
JULY 17, 2006
Raymond B. Roemer,
UAW Convention Endorses Single Payer Health Care & the Conyers Bill
UAW Convention Resolves to Fight for Single Payer Health Care and Calls for Passage of the Conyers Bill
Two thousand delegates to the 34th International Convention
Economic equality is best medicine
Health of societies mostly relies on political and economic policies, not the individual treatment of disease
By STEPHEN BEZRUCHKA
GUEST COLUMNIST - Seattle PI
Sunday, June 25, 2006
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/275142_focus25.html
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