Universal Health Care

It was one of those tragic ironies, beloved by the gods, that the impending fiscal collapse of Social Security and Medicare was announced the same week as the White House convened a conference of healthcare providers , which is the opening salvo in what will be a long sad debate on National Healthcare . The Trustee announced that Social Security will start running deficits in 2016, and be totally depleted by 2037. Medicare is already running deficits, and will fiscally collapse by 2017, Only...Read Full Story

Health Care Reform = Insurance Reform;  The Difference Between Public/Private and Profit/Non-Profit You may love your doctor, but do you love your insurance company? Critics of "health care reform" like to film commercials showing home town doctors in white coats talking about how reform would be a problem for you. This is because critics would like you to associate them with your doctor's care. But the truth is that the reform issues that are currently being debated in congress focus on your...Read Full Story

Get Ready! Senate Abortion Ban Vote May be this Weekend http://www.now.org/lists/now-action-list/msg00413.html Please call AND email your senators one more time to tell them that they must vote against the latest abortion ban amendment that is likely to be offered (by Sens. Ben Nelson and Orrin Hatch) this weekend in the Senate. Lobby Day Turnout Great: THANK YOU so much for all your help in our effort to stop a Stupak-like amendment in its tracks. But one could be on the Senate's agenda as...Read Full Story

The recent health care reform law has had many myths, lies, and misleading characterizations floated. I've seen emails, websites, and newspaper articles filled with inaccuracies. Here's a piece that dispels many of the myths about health care reform. Health care costs are a large component of each of our yearly expenditures. It's important to know how this new law might affect you. We’ve seldom seen a piece of legislation so widely misrepresented, and misunderstood, as the new health care...Read Full Story

We in the U.S. have a rather uncharming tendency to think that our way is always the "right way," regardless of potential evidence to the contrary, and nowhere is this tendency clearer than in our discussions about national health care. Ask your average U.S. citizen about "socialized medicine" and you'll likely get a response that is almost pathologically hostile to the very concept of taxes paying for medical coverage. We reinforce our distrust of public health care initiatives by recounting...Read Full Story