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News and resources from state based single-payer legislation.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 15, 2013By Christopher David Gray | The Lund Report
SALEM, Ore. -- Wes Brain was uninsured last winter when a tonsillectomy showed signs of throat cancer. He qualified for the high-risk Oregon Medical Insurance Pool, which the state has administered through Regence BlueCross BlueShield. -
Posted on Thursday, May 9, 2013By Bill Whitaker | Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Ore.)
Many Wallowa County families and businesses are facing financial catastrophe because of the increasing cost of health insurance and medical care. They hope that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) will cure their problems. Unfortunately it will not. -
Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013By Rachel Roubein | Carroll County Times
What started as the formation of an about eight-person book club spiraled into the creation of a local grassroots effort to advocate for universal health care in Maryland. -
Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013By James Dawson | WDDE Public Radio (Dover, Del.)
In a legislative season marked by hot-button issues, one Delaware lawmaker is adding another to that list. Rep. John Kowalko (D-Newark South) introduced a bill this week that would transform the state’s health care system into a single-payer option. -
Posted on Monday, April 15, 2013By Christopher David Gray | The Lund Report (Portland, Ore.)
The Affordable Care Act will roll out next year, and Oregon has instituted its own pioneering health care delivery reforms through coordinated care organizations. -
Posted on Friday, March 8, 2013By Casey Seiler | Albany Times-Union
ALBANY — Enacting a massive state takeover of the cost of health care for every New Yorker might seem like a heavy lift even in a deep-blue state like New York. -
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013Northwest Labor Press (Portland, Ore.)
SALEM, Ore. — Advocates for single-payer health care in Oregon made their voices heard in Salem Feb. 4 — the opening day of the 77th legislative session. Among the nearly 1,000 people gathered at the noontime rally on the front steps of the State Capitol was State Rep. Michael Dembrow (D-Portland). A member of the American Federation of Teachers, Dembrow is co-chief sponsor of the Health Care for All Oregon Act, which would set up a comprehensive taxpayer-supported health care system. The draft legislation currently has 24 sponsors, including rookie state Rep. Jennifer Williamson (D-Portland), who is co-chief sponsor. -
Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013By Kathy Robertson | Sacramento Business Journal
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- “Everybody in, nobody out” was the chant by a couple hundred people gathered at the Capitol at noon on Monday to rally for a single-payer, universal health care system in California. -
Posted on Friday, February 1, 2013OLYMPIA, Wash. – Single-payer supporters packed a hearing room at the State Capitol on Feb. 1 to give and listen to public testimony in support of the Washington Health Security Trust (H.R. 1085), a bill advocates say would provide affordable, high-quality health care for all of Washington state’s residents.
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Posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2012By Single Payer New York | Healthcare-Now
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Doctors, nurses, patients, senior citizens, anti-poverty advocates, faith leaders and medical administrators joined Assemblymember Richard Gottfried and state Sen. Thomas Duane in unveiling an updated and revised single-payer legislative proposal for New York State on Tuesday. More than 70 state lawmakers are co-sponsors. -
Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2012By Lenny Potash | Labor Notes
Though it’s passed the legislature twice before, a bill to establish a single-payer universal health insurance system in California failed in the state senate in January. -
Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012Salem-News.com (Ore.)
Delegates from 28 unions, nonprofits and grassroots organizations gathered in Portland on Friday, January 27, to form a new coalition that will advocate for universal health care in Oregon and the U.S. Seven labor unions joined with 21 community organizations to sign the membership agreement, approve bylaws, and elect an interim executive committee. -
Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012By Wendell Potter | iWatch News
MONTPELIER, Vt. — You can’t see them. They’re hidden from view and probably always will be. But the health insurance industry’s big guns are in place and pointed directly at the citizens of Vermont. -
Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2012The Union (Grass Valley, Calif.)
The Campaign for a Healthy California on Wednesday denounced the failure of the California Senate to pass SB 810, the California Universal Care Act. The bill died when it remained two votes short of passage. -
Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012By David Gorn | California Healthline
The idea of a single-payer health care system in California stalled on the Senate floor yesterday, falling two votes short of passage. -
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012From the office of California State Senator Mark Leno
The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved the California Universal Health Care Act, authored by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco). Senate Bill 810 guarantees all Californians comprehensive, universal health care while reducing the state’s ballooning health care costs and improving the quality of care and delivery of health services statewide. -
Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012By Amanda Waldroupe | The Lund Report
Healthcare advocates, medical professionals, and legislators are developing a state-wide grassroots campaign to start educating the public about a single payer health system to provide universal coverage for everyone. -
Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012The Hawaii Health Authority, which was established by the Hawaii Legislature as part of the state’s Department of Budget and Finance and tasked with being “responsible for overall health planning for the state,” issued a report to Gov. Neil Abercrombie and the Legislature on Dec. 23, 2011. It consists of a 1999 report by the Health Futures Task Force and a 2011 Update. A few of the members of the 1999 Health Futures Task Force are now members of the HHA.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011By Jessica Marcy | Kaiser Health News
Starting now, Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a publicly financed insurance program and pay hospitals, doctors and other providers a set fee to care for patients. -
Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2011Associated Press | Billings Gazette
HELENA, Mont. - Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Wednesday he will ask the U.S. government to let Montana set up its own universal health care program, taking his rhetorical fight over health care to another level.