America needs and deserves single payer health care system

As our present health care system stands, ranked No. 37 in the world, 47 million citizens are not covered, and another 50 million are often denied care by their insurance companies. Meanwhile, executives in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries are earning millions of dollars because of huge profits in these areas.

A bill has been proposed in Congress, HR-676, "The U.S. National Health Insurance Act," authored by Sen. John Conyers (D-Illinois), which would provide nonprofit health care. If passed, it would provide quality, affordable health care, guaranteed choice of physicians and prescription drugs.

Have you written a letter to the editor in support of HR 676, Medicare for All?

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS OF HEALTH CARE REFORM, AND WHAT A NURSE SEES THERE.

"One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small," so begins the verse from Jefferson Starship's classic song, White Rabbit. "And the one that AHIP's selling, won't do anything at all."

O.K., so that's not the way the verse really goes, but my subject, healthcare reform and the placebo politics that surround it is enough to drive me mad. Actually, it's made a lot of us mad, and we're getting organized for the fight of our lives. Our success and our ability to achieve true healthcare reform has everything to do with perception, placebos, and a good dose of myth-busting reality.

This is What We Need