UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley owns $744,232,068 in unexercised stock options. CIGNA’s Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most.
Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts
Donna Smith and her colleagues have been taking their quest for health care reform to Congress and to the streets. Donna Smith is best known for her major role in Michael Moore's 2007 movie, SiCKO. Moore documented her return to Denver in 2006 when she and her husband Larry were forced to move into their daughter's basement. Though they were fully insured, the Smiths lost everything they had following major illnesses and surgeries. Today, Donna Smith works as a community organizer and legislative advocate for the California Nurses Association, whose 85,000 members across the country were
Watch Barak Obama explain how he supports single payer universal healthcare in this address from 2003.
Nobel Laureate Al Gore has come out with unequivocal support for Single Payer Universal Health Care. The video is located on the following web site:CURRENT.com
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Health, Money and Fear is a new movie by an ER doctor in Oregon about our healthcare crisis.
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Sick Around the World is a brilliant PBS Frontline documentary about healthcare systems around the world
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View this 22 minute video from our allies in California. It talks
about their state plan as well as the problems nationally:
I'm a medical student, computer geek, health policy wonk, weblogger, health care activist, and all around good guy. I promise. I believe that the current health system is a mess: disorganized, wasteful, inefficient, and many times, harmful. My goal is to educate. I think there's a lot of facts out there that we don't hear about, and you can bet my bippy that I'm going to be a Great Equalizer if it's at all possible.
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This video was made by New Albany HCHP members Dave and Darleen Cox. Pretty amazing
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Steve Skvara, Steelworker, to the Presidential Candidates, August 7th, 2007
Watch this single payer video for a candidate for Congress in Colorado. It's brilliant and funny.
Insufferable Cheery Cure! A new drug to cure the annoyingly cheerful. Brought to you by the ONION News Network!
For April 15th, 2009 - Healthcare and Taxes
Mike Farrell, Everybody In, Nobody Out. Medicare For All, the single payer solution to America's Healthcare Crisis. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free fax to congress.
Mike Farrell talks to Jaci Williams RN about Medicare For All that blows away the private for profit insurer competition. The Single Payer Solution. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free...
Mike Farrell and Jess Fiedorowicz on Medicare For All, the Single Payer Solution. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free fax to congress.
The Simple Solution
Mike Farrell and Elizabeth Thomas MD on Medicare For All, the single-payer solution. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free fax to congress.
Clark Newhall Speaking on Martin Luter King Day - Medicare for all, yes we can!
Mike Farrell and Nancy Greep MD talk about Medicare For All, the Single Payer Solution. Visit http://tinyurl.com/cydluc to send a free fax to Congress
Most Children opposed to Health Care - From the Onion News Network! Another good laugh!
Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights
This piece was produced in conjunction with the Huffington Post.
Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post:
Congressman Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) led a protest Monday outside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington, site of the 2009 national conference of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a trade group for the health insurance industry.
"We are not radicals! We are not a fringe element!" shouted Massa, who opted not to use the bullhorn provided by protest organizers. "We are the 48 million Americans who cannot access health care today!"
To read the full article:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03...
Mission: Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health
Plan is a group of Indiana citizens who support a publicly
financed, privately delivered (single payer) universal health
plan at the state and national level. HCHP is working to educate
the public and the legislature about the benefits of a single
payer plan. We are seeking individuals and groups who have an
interest in helping achieve this goal.