Praise to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for a pretty powerful policy piece.

Why aren't business leaders pushing for universal, single-payer health-insurance coverage?

Memo to cost-conscious businessmen: You should be backing efforts to have a universal health-care system as a way to level the economic playing field with competitors abroad and at home. Read more…

Your intrepid reporter spent the morning in downtown Pittsburgh working the Labor Day parade on behalf of HR 676, along with other members of the Western PA Coalition for Single Payer Healthcare. The local letter carriers had kindly allowed us to march with them; as they were at the tail end of the parade, we had plenty of time to leaflet before hand, and we handed out the last of what we had as we marched. It was kind of fun playing carnival barker, calling out "Single payer, single payer, universal health care, everybody in, nobody out!" and shoving leaflets at people. Read more…

In the unlikely event that you don't have enough to do, here are some single-payer healthcare events for your amusement:

Labor Day parades turn out to be a big venue for promoting single payer healthcare. You may want to check out your local event. Here in Pittsburgh we'll be handing out leaflets, as well as marching with the letter carriers. If any of you Pittsburghers want to come, look for us at "Freedom Corner" (Center and Crawford) or at the City-County Building before the parade. Most of us will be wearing red or orange shirts. Read more…

On June 19 join the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals at 12 noon for a protest outside the Philadelphia office of Cigna, the Pittsburgh office of Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Wilkes Barre offices of  Read more…

Why is MBIA controlling the city of Pittsburgh? More importantly how close is MBIA coming to controlling your city or state? Caught this on Karmabanque. MBIA is collateralizing its bonds with crack houses and holding the city of Pittsburgh at bay.  Read more…