Our sources in Florida tell us that a resolution supporting HR 676 (the Single Payer bill in Congress that has 90 cosponsors) passed on the floor of the US Council of Mayors conference without objection! Much of the credit goes to Floridians for Health Care (Alison Landes) and Dr. David Prensky from PNHP who have [...]
Adrian on the front lines
The SICKO Effect Wears On and On and On:
June 19, 2008, National Day of Action Against Private Health Insurance Industry
While many of us attended the huge protest in San Francisco with pre-made signs and a Dixieland Jazz Band marching us in to the strains of “When the Saints Go Marching In” and a cheering crowd [...]
Why are CEO’s dumping their Health Insurance stocks?
From DCblogger
Let’s talk about corporate greed. It is worse than you thought. We know that these companies make money by collecting premiums and then denying care. The question is, money for who? Let’s look at their insider trades:
Cigna’s board of directors and chief corporate officers collectively dumped 129,499 shares of Cigna stock. I tried [...]
AMA issues report card on health insurance industry
The AP is reporting that the American Medical Association today released a report card on the health insurance industry. The primary focus is on the how quickly and accurately doctors get paid but it does have some interesting data that might be useful for patients. It would be interesting to see if the [...]
Vermonters launch health care is a human right campaign
The Vermont Workers Center has launched a health care is a human right campaign and they have a great retro logo. For more information click here
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PA News from APU Board Member
Eighty-Three-Year-Old Dynamo Leads Allentown Single Payer Effort
83 year-old Allentown organizer, Ruth Livesay, says it better than anyone I know: “I want to fight everyday for Single Payer Healthcare as if it’s my last.” Ruth’s sentiments are informed by a lifetime of experiences and observations. But she’s hardly alone.
For our all-volunteer, 5,237-member Healthcare for All [...]
Donna’s Speech at National Health Care for the Homeless Conference
The Experience of Exclusion: What Do We Do With People Like You?
Good morning. I can scarcely believe I have been asked to deliver this address to all of you, and I am so honored to be doing so. Thank you for including me in this experience and for helping bring me back from [...]
Donna Smith on Grit TV’s Laura Flanders
June 10th APU National Coordinator Donna Smith discussed Health Reform on the the Laura Flanders Show.
See Donna on Grit TV
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National Day Of Protest
Title: National Day Of Protest
Location: Across the country
Description: June 19, 2008, Americans across the nation will demonstrate in favor of guaranteed healthcare and in protest of AHIP — America’s Health Insurance Plans — the insurance industry lobbyists who profit from pain. Their annual convention will be met by thousands of protestors onsite in San Francisco [...]
What is your life worth?
From our friends at TIME magazine:
In theory, a year of human life is priceless. In reality, it’s worth $50,000. That’s the international standard most private and government-run health insurance plans worldwide use to determine whether to cover a new medical procedure. More simply, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it [...]