Dozens attend people's town hall

This one took place at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fort Wayne and was organized by Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan: an Indiana group in support of universal health care.

The group invited area lawmakers, but none showed up. Some in attendance preferred it that way.

A third party single payer candidate could win the 2010 Indiana Senate race.

UPDATE: Interview with local coordinator for Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan.

Health care reform advocates to meet with Ellsworth’s staff

TERRE HAUTE — As the Congressional battle over health care looms, some local organizers are heating up their efforts to advocate for major health care reform. Two groups have been collecting signatures in support of HR 676, otherwise known as the National Health Insurance Act.

Healthcare reform: For the people or the corporations?

"My worst fear is that they are going to pass something that they're going to claim is something good, and it's perhaps going to be even worse than what we have now," said the Bloomington Hospital Emergency Room doctor and advocate for a single-payer healthcare system.

Specifically, Stone is worried the public option that is supposed to offer competition to private insurance companies -- "the people who are going to the trough and sucking money out of our health care system" -- will instead enable them to insure the "healthy and the wealthy" and dump the poor and sick onto the public plan.

Invitation to Local Health Care Providers

Please Help Educate Us!

Yes We Can Tippecanoe, a local political action and service organization, is soliciting 150-250 word statements from local health care professionals to be read at our upcoming

Health Care Educational Forum,

June 28th, 3-5pm at the Tippecanoe County Public Library in downtown Lafayette.

We hope to hear from a variety of medical specialties and perspectives.

Our question to you is: From the point of view of your area of expertise and practice, what are the most significant concerns you face in providing service? What would you like to see in health care reform?

Making Health Care Happen (Health Care Organizing Kickoff)

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), author of HR 676: The U.S. National Healthcare Act, will be the featured speaker at "Making Healthcare Happen," a community forum on health care reform occurring Saturday, May 30 at Indiana University Southeast in the Hoosier Room, Grantline Road, New Albany. The forum will begin at 8:30 a.m. and admission is free to the public.

UPDATE: Coverage from WISH TV

Reform talk dominates WellPoint meeting

Dr. Rob Stone, a Bloomington physician who heads the advocacy group Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan, called WellPoint and its industry the "biggest barrier" to affordable health care. Stone's group is for a single-payer health plan, such as Medicare for all.

WellPoint director Bayh conflicted, activists say

WellPoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly faced pointed criticism of her company and of WellPoint Director Susan Bayh from a handful of shareholders at the health insurer's annual meeting this morning.

Two shareholders used a question-and-answer session to charge Bayh with a conflict of interest because her husband, Sen. Evan Bayh, will have a vote on health care reform legislation being drafted in Congress.

Day of Action in New Albany, IN
Making Healthcare Happen

With Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Claudia M. Fegan, MD (former PNHP president), and Rob Stone (Co-founder of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan).

When: Saturday, May 30th, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
Where: Indiana University Southeast, Hoosier Room, 4201 Grant Line Rd, New Albany, IN.
Contact: Kay Tillow
Sponsor: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, Presbyterian Church USA, Physicians for a National Health Program-KY

More information: www.kyhealthcare.org or www.hchp.info

Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan

Rally
For Health Care
Against the Insurers
We've had it with higher premiums - Affordable Healthcare for all
Monument Circle, Indianapolis
May 20, 2009 at 11 AM
Just after WellPoint-Anthem
Stockholders exit their annual meeting

Make this a big event - Bring a Carload!
Let the Politicians Hear
What the people already know
Millions for insurer executive don't cover the uninsured
Sponsored by Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan

We need a good turn out to let Senator Bayh know how people feel about parasites like Wellpoint.

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Fort Wayne Journal Gazzette interviews Edith Kenna

What was the most interesting comment you heard at the meeting?

Presidential Transition Health Policy Team Community Health Care Discussions
Bloomington
Monday 12/29 @ 7 PM
The League of Women Voters and Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan are sponsoring a Health Care Community Discussion
Auditorium of the Monroe County Public Library 303 E Kirkwood Ave
Contact: Karen Green Stone rstone[@]hchp.info

Fort Wayne
Monday 12/ 29 @ 7 PM
The Northeast Indiana Chapter of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan will host a Health Care Community Discussion at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse 5310 Old Mill Road
Contact: Kirsten Eckert 744-7022 kelise13[@]comcast.net

Indianapolis
Monday 12/29 @ 4:30 PM