National Day of Action, reports from the field ii

Fri, 06/20/2008 - 8:36pm — DCblogger

About 30 sign-waving demonstrators picketed in front of Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in Jacksonville on Thursday to protest against the insurance-based U.S. health care system and to advocate a guaranteed "Medicare for All" system.

Some passing motorists honked to the demonstrators' invitations to acknowledge problems with health insurance and to support the National Health Insurance Act, co-sponsored in the U.S. House by Rep. Corrine Brown of Jacksonville and others, according to the Library of Congress.

Help Corrente ...

... keep the heat on!

Subscribe to make a monthly payment and keep the hamsters who keep the mighty servers turning in kibble.

No PayPal Account required! Thank you!

Search

Today in Health Care Reform

Recent blog posts

Well, first off, you're
30 min 7 sec ago
I have been thinking about this all day
51 min 40 sec ago
i was reading her
3 hours 5 min ago
Thanks for this link
3 hours 7 min ago
my preferred targets
3 hours 10 min ago
have i got a party for you!
3 hours 16 min ago
to save roe!
3 hours 18 min ago
ouch
3 hours 24 min ago
what natasha said indeed
3 hours 32 min ago
Their business model rests on
3 hours 39 min ago

I support Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Per capita health care spending (2007):

United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581

-- Bob Somerby

The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.

Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.

* Medicare For All.

Random Links

[Advertising]

Contact lambert_strether [dot] corrente [at] yahoo [dot] com (lambert strether) for all your pony needs. Overt and covert displays of realism ("cynicism") available at customer option.

Chat box

10:18:09 lambert Hipparchia, beowulf, please check your msgs.
23:10:28 Sarah hey, lambert -- check your pms here, please. Kthxbai
19:11:56 Valley Girl VG comment [url]
19:05:37 Valley Girl DDay implies Massa no vote is because he's in a tough district. BS. [url]
18:31:39 lambert That is the bug....
18:24:31 Aeryl :D
18:22:53 Aeryl I just kept posting, because if it's red, obviously, that mean it failed
18:18:33 lambert In a reality where lambert has to figure something out ...
17:30:17 Aeryl In what reality does a bright red box mean "successful"
17:21:33 Aeryl Done, check yours BDB
17:24:02 BDBlue Aeryl, check your messages.
17:48:09 lambert Still no word on HR676
17:31:05 Valley Girl Lambert, just read your comment [url] LOL
15:47:57 Valley Girl Do we haz irony? JR speaks [url]
15:44:24 Valley Girl Bruce- no- I was teaching, alas.
14:03:20 brucedixon VG were you at the single payer demo this morning? I couldn't make it, had a sudden problem.