We gathered in response to Barack Obama's invitation to all Americans to hold health care discussion groups and report back to him. Our input, Obama said, will inform his health care reform agenda. ...
... Everyone raised a hand when asked how many like the idea of a national health plan that would cover all Americans, no exceptions. Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, is pushing legislation (H.R. 676) to create such a plan.
Wish we had a way to know how many of these parties turned into rallies for single payer.
]]>Proponents of an Arizona ballot initiative that would have amended the state Constitution to prohibit single-payer and similar healthcare reforms are conceding defeat.
This fall Massachusetts will have a measure on the ballot that will mandate a state single payer system, given Kennedy's role in the Senate, it is crucial that single payer advocates win in Massachusetts, so I hope the Massachusetts delegates to the Mighty Corrente Building will be helping us out with that.
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In what has to be the strangest story of the myopic vision that is No Child Left Behind, a charter school located in the polygamous community of Centennial Park, Arizona has been named a “blue ribbon school” for their efforts to raise test scores.
PHOENIX — Arizonans will get to decide in November whether they want to block the state from imposing a universal health-care program, after all. ...
... State House Minority Leader Phil Lopes, D-Tucson, has proposed a universal health-care plan that would pool everything being spent by all parties on health care — including government, business and individuals — to set up a plan under which everyone gets the same basic coverage. Lopes has pegged the cost at close to $35 billion.
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Chris Gramazio says we need to take the profit motive out of healthcare, but he does not specifically endorse single payer or HR 676. If you live in Arizona’s 6th CD, you might ask him.
Rep Grijalva co-sponsor of HR 676 has some nice clips of himself, including the congressional debate against the troop “surge.”
]]>A gravely ill woman at risk of being removed from the country for lack of adequate insurance coverage awoke from a coma Tuesday.
The hospital has been seeking to return her to her native Honduras; her family took the hospital to court.
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