National Nurses Movement has a wonderful diary at MyDD about all the single payer bills in the states (but leaves out the legislation in Maryland). Please read about all the good news in California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, and Washington.

Clearly single payer is a political winner, witness the increasing momentum in an atmosphere where the national media has airbrushed out all discussion of single payer.

The most important thing is to make sure that whatever Obama does, no federal legislation prohibit the states from creating their own single payer systems.

City Council Committee Shows Support for Universal Health Care

The Seattle City Council's Culture, Civil Rights, Health and Personnel committee voted today to move resolution 31111, supporting universal health care, out of committee for a vote by the full council.

If the council passes the resolution, it will do so to show support for U.S. House Representative John Conyers' bill, H.R. 676. If Conyers' bill becomes law it will "create a single-payer, publicly-financed, privately-delivered universal health care program that would cover all Americans without charging co-pays or deductibles," according his Web site.

Health Care for All

I am really happy to see that the health care movement in the United States seems to be growing. It makes sense that the movement is growing, since our health care situation is getting worse and worse. Here are some stats from a recent Healthy Washington Coalition caucus I attended:

The Washington Health Care Caucuses:

Speak Up for Quality, Affordable Health Care

Road Show in Burlington,WA

UNHC’s sixth in the Sicko-Cure Road Show series is coming to Burlington, WA.

Join us on June 7th, 2 pm, Burlington,WA. Burlington Public Library, 820 E. Washington Ave. with SICKO Special Features and HR 676: The Single Payer Solution.

Jim McDermott, Washington’s only sponsor of HR 676, says that, “affordable health care is an essential human right as well as a global competitive necessity."