Problems with Medicare payments to physicians, rising health-care costs, and the increasing number of Americans without insurance show the need for reforms.
By Jeff Atkinson
Access to Health Care Services in Canada
Click here to read Statistics Canada's report on access to health care services in Canada from January to December 2005. (pdf)
Spanish Language Newspaper in Kentucky Cover PNHP Conference
The Spanish language newspaper Al Dia in Kentucky covered the local PNHP chapter's conference on HR 676. Click Here to read the article. (pdf)
Health insurance for all, for real
By Susan Duerksen
Op-Ed
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 see
States Push Healthcare Reform While Activists Demand Overhaul
In healthcare debate, single-payer still 800-pound gorilla
by Shreema Mehta
Aug. 1 -- Across the nation, states have made headlines this year for innovative approaches to
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
Nation's Largest Union Endorses HR 676
Orlando, FL-The largest union in the US, the National Education Association (NEA), has endorsed HR 676, a bill introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) that
Kentuckians hold Citizens' Hearing on Health Care Crisis
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
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