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State Single-Payer News

News and resources from state based single-payer legislation.

  • New Coalition to Advocate for Universal Health Care in Oregon
    Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012
    Salem-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.

  • The battle for Vermont's health
    Posted on Monday, February 6, 2012
    By 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.

  • Calif. single-payer campaign to begin new push
    Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2012
    The 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.

  • Single Payer 2 Votes Short in Calif. Senate
    Posted on Friday, January 27, 2012
    By 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.

  • Senator Leno’s Single-Payer Health Care Bill Clears Senate Appropriations
    Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012
    From 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.

  • Single Payer System Continues to Draw Interest in Oregon
    Posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012
    By 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.

  • Hawaii Health Authority outlines roadmap to universal care
    Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012
    The 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.

  • Vermont Edges Toward Single Payer Health Care
    Posted on Tuesday, October 4, 2011
    By 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.

  • Schweitzer calls for universal health care
    Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2011
    Associated 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.

  • Universal health care for New York?
    Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011
    By Trevor T. Alford | The Legislative Gazette (Albany, N.Y.)
    Looking to follow in the footsteps of Vermont, which passed legislation May 26 leading toward a single-payer health care system in that state, two lawmakers are pushing for the adoption of a public health option in New York.

  • National health care debate can be summed up by bill introduced in California
    Posted on Thursday, May 19, 2011
    By YESENIA AMARO | The Bellingham (Wash.) Herald
    The national debate over health care can be summed up in a bill on the table in Sacramento.

  • Nine states appeal federal rule limiting health insurers' profits
    Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2011
    By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News | McClatchy Newspapers
    In a move that could absolve health insurers of paying more than $95 million in consumer rebates, nine states are pressing for relief from a federal rule limiting insurers' profits and administrative costs.

  • Senator Leno’s Single Payer Health Care Bill Passes Health Committee
    Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2011
    Office of Sen. Mark Leno
    The Senate Health 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 containing ballooning health care costs and improving the quality of care and delivery of health services statewide. The legislation passed with a 5-3 vote.

  • St. Paul City Council supports single-payer health care in state
    Posted on Friday, April 22, 2011
    By Joe Kimball | MinnPost.com
    The St. Paul City Council passed a resolution Wednesday supporting the Minnesota Health Plan, a proposal that's floating around the Legislature (but not yet close to passing) for single-payer, universal health care in the state.

  • State-Based, Single-Payer Health Care -- A Solution for the United States?
    Posted on Thursday, March 17, 2011
    William C. Hsiao, Ph.D. | NEJM
    The United States faces two major problems in the health care arena: the swelling ranks of the uninsured and soaring costs. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) makes great strides in addressing the former problem but offers only modest pilot efforts to address the latter. Experience in countries such as Taiwan and Canada shows that single-payer health care systems can achieve universal coverage and control inflation of health care costs.

  • Oregon House Health Care Committee draws testimony on bill to create single-payer universal health care
    Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011
    By Bill Graves | The Oregonian
    A House hearing Friday on a bill to establish a single-payer universal health care plan in Oregon drew testimony from about two dozen people, most in favor of the proposal.

  • 'Single payer' still their goal
    Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011
    By BENNETT HALL | Corvallis Gazette-Times
    Shortly after noon on Friday, state Rep. Michael Dembrow stepped to the microphone and addressed a crowd of about 150 people gathered on the steps of the Oregon Capitol in Salem. “You look so healthy,” he told his audience. “You must all have good health insurance.”

  • One Payer States conference calls keep movement alive
    Posted on Monday, March 14, 2011
    By BENNETT HALL | Corvallis Gazette-Times
    It’s 8 o’clock in the morning, and Betty Johnson and Mike Huntington are huddled around a cordless phone set up on a folding table in Johnson’s Corvallis living room. The two veteran health care activists listen intently to the voices coming over the speaker.

  • Sanders' State Leadership in Healthcare Act, S. 73
    Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2011
    From the Office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.-I) Section 1332 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – the “Waiver for State Innovation” – allows states to waiver out of some of the requirement of federal health reform if they meet certain standards. The provision in the new law was authored by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and strongly supported by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).

  • Proposals for Reform from Vermont
    Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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