Progressives and Conservatives Agree: Single Payer Healthcare Is Inevitable

“The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government as the ‘single payer.’”            - George Will, in his weekly newspaper column, Sunday July 11, 2010 Everyone loves to pick on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and well they should.  This 2,000+ page contraption, [...]

What Would FDR Do?

I had some face time with Rahm Emmanuel two weeks ago at my friend Owen’s. (Owen’s brother-in-law is the former Chair of the Democratic National Committee.)  Rahm said nothing surprising, but made his points.  He had just finished David Kennedy’s 1999 book Freedom from Fear about WW II, the Depression, and, germane to this conversation, the [...]

Is the House Bill Better Than Nothing – Continued again…

  One of my professors years ago was a round little man who liked to warn us, with a twinkle in his eye, “Making predictions is very difficult, especially predictions about the future.”  Will a bill pass, in what form, and then what will the long term implications be?  It’s hard to predict. The incomparable [...]

National Call-in Day February 12

  The National Single Payer Alliance National Call-in Day for HR 676 February 12, 2009     Lincoln’s Birthday Dear Friend,    The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare is encouraging everyone to participate in the next National Call-in Day for HR 676. Mark your calendars.    February 12, 2009: Call Congress - Congressional switchboard: 202-224-3121 - ask for your representative’s [...]

Is Daschle part of the problem or part of the solution?

Published on Saturday, January 31, 2009 by Politico Health Care Groups Paid Daschle $220k by Kenneth P. Vogel Tom Daschle, tapped to be President Obama’s health czar, was paid more than $200,000 by the health-care industry in the past two years, according to documents obtained by Politico. [US President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of [...]

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Is single payer healthcare reform too radical a step for America to take?

Tell MoveOn it is the right step. “If you bend your back, people will ride your back.“- Taylor Rogers, retired Memphis Sanitation Department worker There is a vigorous debate among those who agree that the US must move toward universal health insurance coverage, but disagree on how to get there. Health Care for America Now [...]