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• Who will replace Kathy Manderino in the Pennsylvania House?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Kathy Manderino, the chief House sponsor for Pennsylvania single payer legislation will not be seeking reelection. If single payer passes this year, and there is a chance it will, she can go out in a blaze of glory. But if it does not pass it is urgently necessary to find a replacement who shares her commitment to ...
  5 hours ago

• MLRs, Profits and Our Healthcare

  
  Zane Safrit — Authority: 128
  Yeah. It always comes down to money... There was a time, in the early 1990s, when health insurance companies devoted more than 95 cents out of every premium dollar to paying doctors and hospitals for taking care of their members. Today, insurers only pay about 81 cents of each premium dollar on actual medical ...
  7 hours ago

• 68% of Americans Supports Single Payer Healthcare Reform and the days news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  68% of American Public Supports Single Payer Healthcare Reform Our grassroots organizing campaign to get an economic impact study to pass HB 1660, a Single Payer, guaranteed healthcare program for all Pennsylvanians, also called "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act" has reached higher ground as three ...
  9 hours ago

• Kip Sullivan- new post at PNHP blog-

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/12/06/two-thir... This is part ! of a series that will imo be A/ THE standard reference for the train wreck. Yeah..... I know whats coming. *g* Stay tuned to Kips work at PNHP blog.
  23 hours ago

• Avedon Carol on the lessons of 1994

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Avedon Carol: Of course, the real mistake the Clintons - and many proponents of health care reform - made was to make single-payer unmentionable, to ignore or suppress calls for single-payer, to make sure the term never made it to page or screen. No one of any note was allowed to utter the words; it was The Great ...
  1 day ago

• Action Alert: Health Care Rally in Baltimore

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Email from Margaret Flowers : HUMAN RIGHTS DAY RALLY " on Thursday, December 10 at 10:00am. Event: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY RALLY "Health Care is a Human Right" What: Rally Start Time: Thursday, December 10 at 10:00am End Time: Thursday, December 10 at 1:00pm Where: Fells Point in Baltimore starting at the brick plaza at ...
  1 day ago

• Whats The Plan, Man?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Whats going on with the latest health care kabuki theater in the "progressive", er, regressive blogosphere? Well, apparently quite a bit, in the last couple of days. Lets review. Ezra Klein has already dutifully picked up on the cues I spoke of last week , and has begun asplaining to us dummies out here how the ...
  1 day ago

• When In Doubt, Think Basics

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 128
  The last month of 2009 finds the Congress debating health care reform without a clear rudder (it appears). One minute you hear “insurance premiums will rise”, the next moment you hear “health care will bankrupt America”.  The point being, I think, that the bill is no good for us.  Others point out the ...
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• Blue America Welcomes Jonathan Tasini

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 747
  Jonathan Tasini Imagine electing a senator from New York who will lead the movement for single-payer Medicare for All, real healthcare reform, a senator not bought and paid for by the Sickness Industry, a senator not afraid to back his constituents over the “leaders” of his party, a senator skilled at telling ...
  2 days ago

• Max Baucus Proposes Health Care Compromise: Public Option for Girlfriends

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 506
  “ONCE YOU BECOME A SINGLE PLAYER , AND OPT-IN TO A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, IT TRIGGERS COMPLETE GOVERNMENT BENEFITS BASED ON AN EXCHANGE OF SEXUAL FAVORS.”
  2 days ago

• Sanders amendment and the days news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate CHICAGO--(ENEWSPF)--December 3, 2009. Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Senate health reform bill Wednesday that would replace the bulk of the Senate ...
  2 days ago

• Sanders offers Medicare-for-All amendment in Senate

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  Challenging head-on the powerful private insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to the Senate health reform bill Wednesday that would replace the bulk of the Senate bill’s language with provisions establishing a single-payer, Medicare-for-All program. Joining with ...
  2 days ago

• Latte Links (12/4)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 141
  Some miscellaneous items from around the net. Rasmussen Reports: 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System Big Hollywood: Review: ‘Going Rogue’ Reveals Palin’s Ready to Lead by Brigadier General (Ret.) Anthony J. Tata (USA) The Spyglass: Politics and the Christian tongue WSJ: The Welfare ...
  3 days ago

• National Health Insurance Debate Under Nixon

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  In 1971, President Nixon proposed a national health insurance plan built on heavily employer private coverage. Senator Ted Kennedy proposed what would today be called a single-payer plan. In 1974, the debate had morphed into Nixon vs. Kennedy-Mills vs. Organized labor. Despite the prediction in the second clip ...
  3 days ago

• Action Alert: Single Payer hearing in Pennsylvania Senate

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  A State Senate Single Payer Hearing Banking and Insurance Committee to Hold SB400 Hearing What: SB400 hearing before the Banking and Insurance Committee When: Wednesday, December 16, 9:00 -10:30 AM Where: Room 8E-A East Wing, Capitol Building , Harrisburg
  3 days ago

• Blue America for Single Payer

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 747
  The problems in the current health care debate became apparent early on, when single payer advocates were excluded from participation. Part of that was certainly due to the fact that single payer challenges the logic underlying the entire health care reform effort: if we really cared about cutting costs and ...
  3 days ago

• Bernie Sanders announces his single payer amendment

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  From the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders [ via PNHP ] Summary : This amendment would establish a single payer health insurance system that would cover every person legally residing in the United States. The single payer system would be regulated and funded by the federal government through a payroll tax and an income ...
  3 days ago

• Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  The Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission , (2) taxing high-cost private insurance , (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction. Each of these cornerstones has serious potential to reduce our health coverage, while the ...
  3 days ago

• 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 488
  Only 27% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. That’s down five points from August . The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% are opposed to a single-payer system and another 12% are undecided.
  3 days ago

• Barbara Ehrenreich, The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  Tom Dispatch posted 2009-11-03 16:27:36 Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Soon This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as “transparency like you’ve never seen it before” and ...
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