by Sylvia Moore | Oct 31, 2012 | News
The Obama administration has just announced that it will offer federally-sponsored health benefits to the public as part of the health exchanges due to open up in 2014: These multistate plans were included in President Obama’s health care law as a substitute for a...
by Sylvia Moore | May 30, 2012 | News
Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington, will soon introduce legislation that would allow states to use federal funds to create their own single payer plans. From The Los Angeles Times: If passed into law — admittedly a long shot with Republicans controlling...
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....