On AlterNet: single payer
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "single payer"
Sen. Bernie Sanders, AlterNet: Video. October 23, 2009.
A single-payer approach saves hundreds of billions of dollars.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 20, 2009.
Don't get distracted from what health care reform is really about: People.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 13, 2009.
Find out who's full of it and who's not in regards to the health care debate.
Sally Kohn, Health Care Reform for the Heartland AlterNet: Video. August 11, 2009.
Millions of Americans are in real need of health care reform. Here are just a few of their stories.
Fault Lines, Al Jazeera AlterNet: Video. August 6, 2009.
Health Insurance Companies Are Blackmailing the U.S. Government for A Health Care Handout.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. August 1, 2009.
For those who think the government shouldn't be involved in health care, they already are. And you should be grateful.
Mike Elk, AlterNet. July 15, 2009.
Its about time that we ask ourselves, What Would Wellstone Do?
Staff, FAIR AlterNet: Video. July 8, 2009.
ABC's prime time forum "Prescription for America" omitted single-payer-related questions, despite its pledge to represent all sides of the issue.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. July 8, 2009.
"We should encourage people to participate in the process."
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. July 3, 2009.
It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform.
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.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 30, 2009.
This is no time to let up. We must let Obama know how important a public option is for all of America.
Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. June 29, 2009.
Single-payer and public option advocates are fighting each other. We must remember that we're on the same side.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. June 24, 2009.
By backing away from a public option, Obama is letting down 72 percent of America.
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.
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.
David Sirota, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.
Taking steps to realistic health care reform begins at the state level.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. June 9, 2009.
Six times as many Americans die every from lack of health care than the number of Americans killed in 9/11.
Bernie Horn, Campaign for America's Future. June 8, 2009.
The real reason why single-payer isn't on the table is because Americans simply don't want it as evidence suggests.
John Nichols, The Nation. May 14, 2009.
While the health-insurance lobby has been welcomed to the roundtable discussions organized by Baucus, the nurses and their allies were told to leave.
David Sirota, Open Left. May 11, 2009.
How Political Elites Have Made Single Payer "Politically Impossible"
Ezra Klein, The American Prospect. May 21, 2008.
Will a new administration and Congress get universal health care right this time?
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. April 24, 2008.
It's time for the candidates to stop dancing around real health-care reform and get behind a single-payer system.
Stephen Fleischman, AlterNet. February 2, 2007.
Health care costs continue to skyrocket, and 47 million people remain uninsured. Sooner, if not later, the system will crash. Must we wait for that to happen?
