“-Speaking of the seven-week war in Ukraine ignited by Vladimir Putin, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is warning us to expect a war that lasts for years. “I do think this is a very protracted conflict … measured in years,” Milley told Congress. “I don’t know about a decade, but […]
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Speaking of the seven-week war in Ukraine ignited by USA Spending 5 Billion Tax Payer Dollars To Overthrow The Duly Elected Ukrainian Governmnent
National Single Payer Summit, Fri. March 11 – Sun. March 13
National Single Payer Summit, Fri. March 11 – Sun. March 13 I’d like to let you know about the upcoming livestreamed event Our Healthcare System in Crisis: National Single-Payer Summit this Friday March 11th through Sunday March 13th. This three-day deep dive into all things national, improved Medicare For All will help focus the conversation and […]
Activists Should Continue To Fight For National Single Payer
Above Photo: Just because Biden lays down Medicare For All does not mean we have to or should. (Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images) Rather Than Taking Cues From The Democratic Party We need to put our efforts together and force reluctant Democrats in Congress to pass what 80% of Democratic voters, and 60% of the entire […]
Dan Andrews Accused of Misusing Tax-Payer Funds After Allegations Staffers Spied On Focus Groups
Victorian Liberal MP Tim Wilson has accused State Premier Daniel Andrews of misusing public money after reports have emerged in the Herald Sun and The Australian that staffers from Andrews’ private office were given login details, to allegedly allow them to secretly spy on tax-payer funded focus groups that were run by a former Labor pollster, reported. “Staffers from […]
Single Payer: Which Way Forward?
By Ed Grystar, Dissident Voice. January 19, 2021 | Strategize! To say that there’s a political disconnect in the fight for a national single payer health care delivery system is to state the obvious. The struggle for M4ALL has grown due to decades of grassroots organizing alongside the gradual worsening of Americans’ health insurance coverage, […]
DCCC Takes Money From Insurance Lobbyist As They Oppose Single Payer
DCCC Takes Money From Insurance Lobbyist As They Oppose Single Payer Above Photo: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at a health care rally in San Francisco, California on September 22, 2017. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. In April 2017, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) wanted to find out the best way for its candidates to address […]
Health Insurance And Pharma Block Hopes For Single-Payer Health Care
Health Insurance And Pharma Block Hopes For Single-Payer Health Care Above Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont hosted a town hall recently to discuss the Medicare for All Act, during which he emphasized a conflict of interest around involving the private sector in healthcare. “Right now, we have a healthcare system that is […]
Single Payer Could Stop The Rural Hospital Closure Crisis
Single Payer Could Stop The Rural Hospital Closure Crisis Above Photo: In 2015, Novant Health made the decision to close down Franklin Medical Center, in Louisburg. Taylor Sisk. America’s rural hospitals are closing down at an alarming rate. According to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, there were seventy-two rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2016, close to […]
Jacob Hacker Rises Again To Stop Single Payer
Jacob Hacker Rises Again To Stop Single Payer Above Photo: By Erik McGregor In the article linked below, The Road to Medicare for Everyone, Jacob Hacker is once again working to dissuade single payer healthcare supporters from demanding National Improved Medicare for All and use our language to send us down a false path. Once again, […]
The Collapse Of Trumpcare And The Rise Of Single Payer
Above Photo: Kaytee Riek/ Flickr Two major developments in September upended US healthcare politics. The month’s end saw the failure of a last-ditch blitz by Senate Republicans to dispatch the Affordable Care Act (ACA) via the Graham-Cassidy bill, a painful defeat for opponents of Obamacare, including President Trump. And on 13 September, Senator Bernie Sanders’ single-payer […]
Fool Me Twice: Trojan Horse Democrats Pile Into The House Of Single-Payer
Above Photo: From thepolemicist.net It’s great that more than a third of Democratic senators have signed on to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’s Medicare-for-All bill. It’s a potentially strong bill that’s been welcomed by single-payer activist organizations like Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and National Nurses United (NNU), and it represents a victory for the tireless […]
Single Payer Is On The National Agenda—And It’s Thanks To People’s Movements
Note: While single payer, improved Medicare for all is the answer to the health crisis in the United States (and it is a crisis when tens of thousands are dying each year) that does not mean Senator Sanders has it right. We will be issues an analysis of the Sanders bill. At this stage I […]
Celebrate Medicare’s Anniversary: Join Call For Single Payer
Medicare’s 52nd anniversary takes place on July 30, at the beginning of the August Congressional Recess. The call to action is below, and here is a list of actions: Citrus Springs, FL – July 27, 4 to 6 pm. Movie: “Fix It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point“. Melbourne, FL – July 24, 5 to 7 pm. […]
Trumpcare Is Dead. ‘Single Payer Is The Only Real Answer’
Above Photo: AP. President John F. Kennedy gestures during his speech before a rally on medical care for the aged at New York’s Madison Square Garden on May 20, 1962. THANKS TO A PAIR of defections from more GOP senators late yesterday, the Republican plan to repeal and replace or simply repeal the Affordable Care Act is dead — for […]
Trumdcare Is Dead. “Single Payer Is The Only Real Answer,” Says Medicare Architect
Above Photo: AP. President John F. Kennedy gestures during his speech before a rally on medical care for the aged at New York’s Madison Square Garden on May 20, 1962. THANKS TO A PAIR of defections from more GOP senators late yesterday, the Republican plan to repeal and replace or simply repeal the Affordable Care Act is dead — for […]
Survey: Physician Attitudes Shift To Single Payer
Above Photo: by Occupy Note: We are not surprised that physician’s favor a single payer funding system for healthcare. It would greatly reduce their overhead, billing and paperwork. It would also make malpractice insurance a minimal expense since the biggest expense of a bad health outcome is treatment to deal with the problem — that would […]
Voters Are Fired Up For Single Payer Creating Dilemma For Democrats
Above Photo: From healthoverprofit.org On Sunday, June 4, the same day that Our Revolution, a Democratic Party group that arose from the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, organized rallies and die-ins to highlight the number of people dying in the United States due to lack of access to health care, the New York Times published an […]
Nader Rips Sanders Democrats For Putting Single Payer On Back Burner
Above Photo: Single payer protest in NYC by Occupy Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) promised single payer activists that he would introduce his single payer bill in the Senate within the next couple of weeks. Now, according to Sanders’ staff, it’s not going to happen. In putting single payer on the back burner, Sanders has reverted […]
The Hegemonic Harpies And World Domination
We begin with Hilary Clinton, Lady MacDeath, the recent star in the US theatre of macabre and absurd defamations of democracy in her bid for the presidency. It’s important to note that the US Hegemon took a long time to allow a woman candidate for president while they did place some women in power in other […]
Colorado Court Strikes Down Local Fracking Restrictions
Print Friendly Above Photo: Anti-fracking protesters took their message to Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s mansion. Credit: John Duffy via Flickr A fracking ban in Longmont and a moratorium in Fort Collins were overturned by the state’s high court, which ruled oil and gas decisions rest with state regulators. The Colorado Supreme Court struck down local fracking […]