Articles of Interest

By Russell Mokhiber | Single Payer Action
Single payer activists David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler are moving to New York City. In the fall of 2010, they will become full professors at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health at Hunter College.

By CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY | Albany (N.Y.) Times Union
The keynote speaker at an upcoming forum on health reform has two arrests to prove her devotion to her cause. Dr. Carol Paris, a Maryland psychiatrist, was arrested at a U.S. Senate hearing in June after she stood up and asked senators to consider a single-payer system. Paris was arrested again a week ago while trying to deliver a letter to President Barrack Obama.

Bill Moyers Journal
BILL MOYERS:When I saw pictures of Margaret Flowers being led away, I remembered those famous words attributed to another Margaret, the anthropologist Margaret Mead who said, "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Dr. Flowers is with me now. A pediatrician from Maryland who worked at a rural hospital and in private practice, her full-time job is now the fight for single payer health insurance. She works on Capitol Hill for the organization, Physicians for a National Health Program. Welcome to the Journal.

By Robert Stone | Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.)
A single-payer, improved Medicare-for-all reform would lower costs, cover the uninsured and upgrade coverage for most Americans. It would prove sustainable and hugely popular. Under Medicare, patients have the freedom to choose their doctor and hospital and are free from the fear of financial catastrophe.

By Erin Sullivan | Baltimore City Paper
Local health-care practitioners explain why they're willing to go to jail in the name of health-care reform.

By Katie Robbins | MichaelMoore.com
After a sobering loss for Democrats in the special election held to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, probing exit polls about health reform show that the win of Republican Scott Brown who pledged to cast the vote that would kill national health reform, didn’t come from people who thought the national legislation was going too far, but that it wasn’t going far enough. Among Brown voters, 36 percent thought it didn't go far enough. Among voters who stayed home and opposed health care, a full 53 percent said they opposed the Senate bill because it didn't go far enough.

By Dr. Carol Paris
Remember that we all have talents to contribute. Without Bill Hughes taking the video, our action wouldn’t have been as fruitful. Without Kevin Zeese, we’d have worried about our families and “legal stuff.” Without Mark Almberg, we wouldn’t have a press release. Without researchers like David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, we wouldn’t have compelling data to support us. We draw support from each other.

From Deslinde
En Estados Unidos, 46 millones de personas no tienen seguro de salud porque no pueden pagarlo. 45.000 de ellas mueren anualmente como consecuencia directa de no estar aseguradas, o lo que es lo mismo, una muerte cada 12 minutos que podría evitarse si estas personas tuvieran acceso oportuno a los servicios de salud.

By Margaret Flowers, M.D. | Op-Ed News
I am a pediatrician who, like many of my primary care colleagues, left practice because it is nearly impossible to deliver high quality health care in this environment. I have been volunteering for Physicians for a National Health Program ever since. For over a year now, I have been working with the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care/ National Single Payer Alliance. This alliance represents over 20 million people nationwide from doctors to nurses to labor, faith and community groups who advocate on behalf of the majority of Americans, including doctors, who favor a national Medicare-for-All health system.