Tag Archive for 'single payer'
Add a comment February 18th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
The California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) would like to invite you to apply for the CaPA Medical Student Fellowship. The fellowship is a phenomenal, one-year, full-time, PAID position to work on healthcare reform and advance the single-payer movement. It is THE only fellowship of its kind in California and an incredible opportunity for those interested in [...]
1 Comment February 18th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
The following letter was sent to the White House on Feb. 9, two days after President Obama announced his plans to convene a bipartisan summit on health reform on Feb. 25 in Washington. Unsurprisingly, even if disappointingly, we’re still waiting for an answer.
February 9, 2010
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear [...]
1 Comment January 28th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
By Margaret Flowers, M.D.
January 28, 2010
President Barack Obama|
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear President Obama,
I was overjoyed to hear you say in your State of the Union address last night:
“But if anyone from either party has a better approach that will bring down premiums, bring down the deficit, cover the uninsured, strengthen Medicare for seniors, [...]
Add a comment January 28th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
For Immediate Release: 1/28/10
January 28, 2010
Leno’s Single Payer Health Insurance Legislation
Wins Senate Vote 22 to 14
California OneCare Campaign
Reveals Massive Netroots, Grassroots Campaign
By a vote of 22 to 14, the California Senate today passed historic reform legislation, SB 810, that calls for sweeping changes in the financing of health care.
Under the bill, authored [...]
Add a comment January 13th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
From California OneCareNow, Campaign for single payer bill SB810
The campaign for single payer health care reform in California got a “shot in the arm” in Sacramento Monday and a report about it became the top recommended blog on Daily Kos. Busloads of California Health Professional Student Alliance members–medical, nursing, public health and allied health students–marched [...]
Add a comment January 4th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
With all the respect that Professor Reinhardt deserves, the question he poses in the New York Times’ Economix blogpost, “Is ‘Community Rating in Health Care Fair”?, is bogus – perfect economic nonsense, morality aside.
His own 2003 paper, “It’s the prices, stupid”, lay out why we have the highest health care costs in the world: it [...]
Add a comment January 4th, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
Last day to register for Lobby Day 2010
Location: Sacramento State University and California Capitol Building, Sacramento, CA
All – Inclusive in Registration Fee:
Registrants from Southern California:
Roundtrip Luxury Cruiser Bus to Sacramento event
ALL Registered Participants:
Hotel Suites in Embassy Suites, Sacramento
Meals (Sunday Lunch; Monday Breakfast and Lunch) — all except Saturday night on the town
Training Materials [...]
Add a comment January 2nd, 2010 by Claudia Chaufan
In closing 2009, the editors at the New York Times make a “case for (health care) reform”. They build their case on the well documented fact that millions in America are uninsured, that the for profit insurance sector is getting richer as more and more Americans go bankrupt because they cannot pay their medical bills, [...]
Add a comment December 23rd, 2009 by Claudia Chaufan
A national organization of 17,000 physicians, Physicians for a National Health Program, who favor a single-payer health care system, called on the U.S. Senate today to defeat the health care legislation presently before it and to immediately consider the adoption of an expanded and improved Medicare-for-All program.
Because of the urgency of the matter, we feel [...]
3 Comments December 23rd, 2009 by Claudia Chaufan
So experts like Paul Krugman recommend that “we” progressives “take a deep breath”, set our ideological quibbles aside, and “pass the health care bill” (“Pass the Bill”, December 17, 2009, A. 35).
Not that Krugman thinks that the bill is good. Far from that, he grants that it is “way short of ideal” — that, indeed, [...]
