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    Healthcare fix crucial to recovery: Michigan forum

    Reuters - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    By Michael Strong DEARBORN, Michigan (Reuters) - "Michigan is the poster child of why reform needs to happen," Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm told ...


    Obama's public health insurance idea draws fire

    Reuters - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    By Will Dunham - Analysis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A big new public health insurance program envisioned by President Barack Obama is shaping up as one of the ...

    Single-payer plans the only solution

    Baltimore Sun - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    As recent Baltimore Sun articles have mentioned ("Health care plan outlined," March 5), both the federal and state governments are attempting to grapple ...

    Goodman and Moynihan: Single-payer concept gets no respect

    Seattle Post Intelligencer - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    By AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN President Barack Obama promises health care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. ...

    Deval Patrick headed for Vermont for health care forum

    Boston Herald - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    By AP BOSTON -- Gov. Deval Patrick is traveling to Vermont to help lead a White House forum on health care. The Democrat will join with Gov. ...

    Protesting Health Insurance Heavyweights

    AlterNet - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    Congressman Eric Massa (DN.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America's Health ...

    No Reason to Demonize US Single-Payer Health: John F. Wasik

    Bloomberg - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    March 11 (Bloomberg) -- It's time to stop kicking sand in the face of single-payer health care. It may be the strongest solution around to insure every ...

    Health Care in the Age of Obama, Part 2

    CQPolitics.com - ‎17 hours ago‎
    By Madison Powers, CQ Guest Columnist Since President Obama conducted his daylong health care forum at the White House a week ago, some observers have ...

    Single-payer health insurance better for most

    Central Maine Morning Sentinel - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    Much is being said about health-care reform in the news lately (eg, "Health-care reform needs to address primary care," Feb. 25), but everyone shies away ...

    Single Payer Health Care, here in ILLINOIS, if we fight for it on ...

    OpEdNews - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    by Lora Chamberlain Page 1 of 1 page(s) To all in Illinois who want Single Payer Health Care or Medicare for all. We have a Golden opportunity at this time ...

    Editorial: The battle over health care

    People's Weekly World - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    The White House health care reform summit March 5 set a new tone and scope for the struggle to fix our broken system. Health care advocates had to spend the ...

    CNN: Single-Payer Is So '90s

    FAIR - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    Fifteen years ago you sometimes heard--actually you heard quite a bit--people saying: "Let's have a single-payer system like in Canada. ...

    Poll Excludes Single-Payer Healthcare; Respondents Implicitly ...

    OpEdNews - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    by Jerry Policoff Page 1 of 2 page(s) An article posted at The Huffington Post yesterday, Poll: 73% of Voters Think Health Care Reform Must Include Choice ...

    Keep health options open

    Buffalo News - ‎Mar 12, 2009‎
    Whether it is a threat or a promise, the White House plan to create a government-run alternative to private health insurance plans should not be soon ...

    Granholm, Obama official join in health care forum today

    DetNews.com - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    DEARBORN -- One day after former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich visited Michigan to discuss the nation's health care system, another group of prominent ...


    Burn Your Health Insurance Bill Day

    Democracy Now - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    President Barack Obama promises health-care reform, but he has taken single-payer health care off the table. Single-payer is the system that removes private ...


    Dr. Quentin Young, Longtime Obama Confidante and Physician to MLK

    Democracy Now - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    While the Obama administration claims "all options are on the table" for healthcare reform, it's already rejected the solution favored by most Americans, ...

    Healthcare Reform and the "Marginalization of the Majority"

    Institute for Public Accuracy (press release) - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    America's Health Insurance Plans, the main Washington lobbying group for the health insurance corporations, is holding its annual meeting Wednesday at the ...

    The health care summit

    Brattleboro Reformer - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    By RICHARD DAVIS Last Thursday, President Obama hosted a health care summit at the White House. He invited 125 of the most influential people involved in ...

    Single Payer Health Insurance / Still Ignored By Main Steam Press

    OpEdNews - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    by Allen L Roland Page 1 of 1 page(s) A New FAIR survey( Fairness In Accuracy and Reporting ) reveals that the America public prefers a single-payer ...

    Single Payer Action Says -- No Compromise with Health Insurance

    Common Dreams (press release) - ‎Mar 11, 2009‎
    WASHINGTON - March 10 - Promising no compromise with health insurance corporations, no compromise on single payer, and no inside the beltway deal-cutting ...

    Urgent Message to Single Payer Supporters of New England

    Common Dreams (press release) - ‎Mar 10, 2009‎
    BURLINGTON, Vermont - March 10 - Vermont Governor Jim Douglas and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick have been asked by President Obama to host a regional ...


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