Health Care

Rochester-area individual health care reform activists and groups will rally at Washington Square Park to demand that our federal officials implement Medicare for All health care reform.

A march to the Federal Building will follow, where empty prescription pill bottles, medical bills, and a petition will be delivered to Rep. Louise Slaughter to urge her to endorse HR 676: Expanded and Improved Medicare for All

Tuesday 16 June 2009

by: Kevin Zeese, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Single-payer witnesses show the common-sense path, but Congress is listening to industry donors.

All Bad Legislation comes wearing a halo. That's how about 60 years of Reefer Madness drug war atrocities began. The just-passed law (not signed yet) giving the FDA power to "regulate tobacco" is not what mainstream media, or public officials tell us. This is Reefer Madness II, concocted by the same industries who did RM I...important whether or not one cares about "smoking" of any plant.

Part 1 of Town Hall meeting on Single Payer/ Universal Health Care at Rochester Museum and Science Ctr, May 30, 2009.

Robin Wilt, Progressive Democrats of Genesee Valley
Jeff Cohen, Founder of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)
John Conyers, Author of House Bill 676- Member of House of Reps from Michigan
Eric Massa, Member of House of Reps NY's 29th Congressional District, Co-sponsor of 676
Part 2 coming soon

This is a independent media organization that interviewed Canadians about their reaction to the US advertising against medicare for all health care, as well as their views of their own health care system.

Baucus to Meet with Single Payer Advocates
Filed under: News — russell @ 12:57 am
Guess who’s coming to dinner.

After months of proclaiming that single payer is off the table, Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) has invited five key single payer advocates to meet with him in Washington, D.C. this week.

On Wednesday June 3, Senator Baucus will meet with Dr. David Himmelstein, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), Dr.

Come join Rep. John Conyers (MI-14), Rep. Eric Massa (NY-29) and your hosts from Progressive Democrats of America to learn more about HR 676 - Single Payer Medicare for All.

Delegates to the Rochester Democratic Convention, held at the Unite Here hall, were greeted by other Democratic supporters of HR 676, a bill in Congress calling for universal single-payer health care.