Single Payer Health Care

Who Knew? California May Have a Public Option

Linda Bergthold | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Public Option, Kaiser-Health-News, Vermont Single Payer, Medi-Cal, Affordable Care Act, California Health Benefit Exchange, Medicaid, Single Payer Health Care, Alameda Alliance for Health, California Public Option, Politics News

During the health reform debate, there was controversy and disappointment over the failure to include a public option in the Affordable Care Act. Not only did the public option idea not die, it is alive and well in California.

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12 Most Hopeful Trends to Build on in 2012

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: 99 Percent, 1 Percent, Unemployment, Occupy Wall Street, Fracking, Single-Payer Health Care, Keystone XL Pipeline, Climate Change, Health Care, Iraq War Over, Gay Marriage Equality, Uc Davis Pepper Spray, Impact News

This uprising is the biggest reason for hope in 2012. The following are 12 ways the Occupy movement and other major trends of 2011 offer a foundation for a transformative 2012.

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Mubarak, Harman Walk: Winograd Considers a Run

Marcy Winograd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Pre-Emptive War, Palestine, Iraq, Out of Afghanistan Caucus, Bradley Manning, Janice Hahn, Social Secuirty, Single-Payer Health Care, Egyptian Revolution, Jane Harman AIPAC, Jane Harman, Marcy Winograd, Debra Bowen, Israel, Mubarak, Medicare, Politics News

Into the void of ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak comes a challenge for the United States to become an honest broker for peace between Israel and Palestine, to abandon preemptive wars, and to forsake its role as arms merchant to torturers.

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A Judge's Assist to Single Payer?

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Perhaps unwittingly, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson of Richmond, Va., has enhanced the prospects for single-payer health reform. He did so Monday by...

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Rx on Medicare's Birthday: Expand it to All

Dr. Quentin Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Physicians, National Debt, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Cuts, National Health Reform, Medicare for All, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Reform, Single Payer Health Care, Physicians for a National Health Program, Politics News

By replacing our crazy-quilt, inefficient system of private health insurers with a streamlined, publicly financed single-payer program, we would reap enormous savings.

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I Am Not Paying Higher Taxes to Help the Uninsured

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prisoners-Dilemma, Game Theory, Middle Class, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Public Option, Politics News

No social program -- Medicare, social security, rent control, public universities -- that aims to help the poor can ever succeed without appealing to, and paying off, a broad middle class.

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Organic Empowerment 2010: Taking Action Locally

Ronnie Cummins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Universal, Move Your Money, Local Action, Community Health Centers, Organic, Single-Payer Health Care, Home News

Making affordable, locally and regionally-grown organic food available to all, rich, middle-income and poor, must become a top priority for city and county governments across the nation.

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Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pelosi Public Option, Pelosi Single Payer Health Care, Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Health Care Reform, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News

An amendment to allow states to pursue single-payer health care without incurring insurance-industry lawsuits was stripped from the House bill, Speake...

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Single-Payer Protest Interrupts Senate Health Care Bill Markup

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Senate Finance Committee, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care Protest, Max Baucus, Single Payer Health Care, Single Payer Protest, Politics News

Debate over the Senate Finance Committee health care bill was briefly interrupted on Tuesday by a protest in support of the one thing absolutely not u...

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Giving Single-Payer a Second Look

Rep. Anthony Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony Weiner, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Single Payer System, Single Payer Healthcare, Medicare, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

The truth is that the United States already uses single-payer systems to cover over 47% of all medical bills. And these can in turn help us visualize what an actual public plan would look like.

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Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle

John Kenagy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare Cooperatives, Healthcare, Politics News

Health care reform in America is possible. It's not only possible, it's already been done!

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Up Close and Personal With the U.S. Health Care System

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week, thousands of L.A.'s unemployed and medically uninsured will have their eyes examined, their teeth cared for, their lab work and radiology work done -- free.

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Occam's Razor Can Cut Down the Health Care Lobbyists

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Private health-insurance and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists are threatening the health and stability of America. Some argue that this is equivalent to crimes against humanity.

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Senator Baucus: "Uniquely American" Is Not an Answer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Max Baucus, Free Market, Health Care, Working Life, Max Bacus, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News

What industry has done more to deny our citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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Whiteous Indignation

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.

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Progressive Dems Push For House Vote On Single-Payer Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Congressional Progressive Caucus is pressing Democratic leaders to allow a vote on the House floor on a measure that would allow individual states...

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Amendment to Grant States Right to Implement Single Payer Passes Committee Today

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today witnessed the landmark passage of the States Single Payer Amendment which would remove federal barriers to implementation of a single payer health care system at the state level.

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Of Course They're Making Health Care Reform Difficult

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Single Payer Healthcare, Henry Waxman, Insurance Companies, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, Health, Politics News

Let me break it down: that a public health care option should even be assailed suggests the encroachment of an industry desperately clinging to its racket.

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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dr. David Himmelstein, Turning Language on Its Head, Karen Ignani, Public Option, Government Bureaucracy, Bizarro World, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, For-Profit Insurances, Government Takeover, Single Payer Health Care, Ahip, Frank Luntz, Spinning the Issue, Physicians for a National Health Program, Savings With National Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Best Medical Practices, Keeping the Insurance You Have, Transparency, Creeping Socialism, Cbo Report, Politics News

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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Want the Public Option as Much as I Do? Then Get Mad

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius, Public Option, Howard Beale, Orrin Hatch, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Health Care Reform Debate, Single Payer Health Care, Healthcare, Obama Public Option, Politics News

I don't trust private industry with my health.

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MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.17.2011

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Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.

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Two Parties No Party for America

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our leaders have all morphed in to one large, non-identified, political animal that proports to stand for something but has ended up standing for very little at all.

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Nelson Clarifies Position On Public Health Care Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care, Public Option, Ben Nelson, Nelson Single Payer, Nelson on Health Care, Ben Nelson Health Care, Single Payer, Single Payer Health Care, Nelson Health Care, Politics News

Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) called the Huffington Post on Wednesday, following our latest story about his stance on a public health care option, to clari...

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Why Is Washington, D.C. So Afraid to Even Talk About Single Payer?

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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The fact that the Washington Establishment is doing everything to stop single payer suggests that Establishment is genuinely frightened of any proposal that takes on the health insurance industry.

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Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.

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