Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. July 3, 2009. Little grassroots supports exists for health care reform among organized labor as workers feel betrayed by the unions that represent them.
Chris Kromm, Facing South. July 2, 2009. Oddly the states with the most people enrolled are down South -- where political leadership has been most opposed to single-payer.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
Chris Bowers, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. Specter's announcement Thursday that he would support a public option seems like little more than an act of hollow self-preservation.
BarbinMD, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 26, 2009. While millions of Americans were listening intently, GOPers were using airtime to do what they do best: whine.
Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future. June 26, 2009. Our current system has robbed us of the chance to save, educate ourselves, see the world and live to a robust old age.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 24, 2009. The only thing standing between us and real health care for all Americans are some senators and their industry friends. Time for battle.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 23, 2009. Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.
Staff, The Nation AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 22, 2009. The Nation's Washington editor Chris Hayes debates Reihan Salam of The National Review.
David Sirota, AlterNet. June 22, 2009. For all the positive steps Obama's America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 21, 2009. Momentum for universal health care is slowing dramatically on Capitol Hill.
Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! AlterNet: Health and Wellness. June 20, 2009. How Pelosi is keeping us out of the clutches of insurance industry predators.
Ray McGovern, Consortium News. June 20, 2009. My own medical emergencies have made me more conscious of the scandal in our country when it comes to health care.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. June 19, 2009. The firm has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of key players in the health care industry.
Michael Bader, AlterNet. June 19, 2009. The suffering fostered by our system isn't limited to those who can't afford access to it. And their voices should be part of the debate, too.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. June 18, 2009. Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 16, 2009. The time is now: Help Obama secure a reasonable option for the millions of Americans who don't have health care.
