This special holiday episode of Single Payer Minute takes us to the Health Care Now national strategy meeting that was held in Chicago. Activists from 23 states joined with Donna Smith and Rep. John Conyers to plan our future path to making health insurance a human right in this country.
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By Donna Smith
CHICAGO – Widgets, not patients. Widgets. Our economy is in serious need of more and better widgets. Economists sometimes use the word widget to describe abstract units of production. Businesses produce widgets using capital and labor. But with the U.S. car manufacturers dumping jobs and the financial industry in meltdown, finding [...]
On November 19th, 2008, at 10 a.m., the Senate Finance Committee will hold a host a hearing in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, D.C., titled: “Health Care Reform: An Economic Perspective”
As of this time, only two U.S. Senators, Max Baucus of Montana and Charles Grassley of Iowa, are slated to offer statements, [...]
In Massachusetts, where the most recent experiment in incremental health reform is underway, The voters by a large margin support Single Payer. 10 districts voted overwhelming in favor of this ballot question, by a margin of 72% to 28% (124,875 votes to 48,278 votes)
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Summary: Should the representative from this district be instructed [...]
This week at SPM we went into our video archives and found this timely short film for your pre-election viewing pleasure.
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