by Sylvia Moore | Mar 9, 2012 | News
From LaborNotes Blog: Angry activists pointed to the fact that five of the six errant Democrats had received money from the insurance industry and Big Pharma, ranging from $100,000 to over $250,000. Three of the six senators had been endorsed by the California Labor...
by Andrew McGuire | Dec 13, 2011 | News
Healthcare Reform 2.0 By Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David Himmelstein, MD CUNY School of Public Health, Social Research, Fall 2011 So while the American people want an expanded and improved Medicare for All — that is, a single-payer system — corporations...
by Sylvia Moore | Oct 26, 2011 | News, Video
Despite passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, a recent free clinic at the Los Angeles Sports Arena showed that the need for universal health coverage is too great. The clinic, organized by the non-profit CareNow USA, drew 5,000 people....
by Andrew McGuire | Oct 24, 2011 | News
L.A. County expands no-cost healthcare By Anna Gorman Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2011 In one of the largest expansions of health coverage to the uninsured, Los Angeles County is enrolling hundreds of thousands of residents in a publicly funded treatment program and...
by Andrew McGuire | Sep 14, 2011 | News
Number of uninsured climbs to highest figure since passage of Medicare, Medicaid 50 million uninsured shows urgency of enacting single-payer Medicare for all: national doctors group Official estimates by the Census Bureau showing an increase of about 1 million in the...