Unions and the Health Care Debate

Sam Gindin: Unions should have said "No" to concessions if they wanted to shape the health debate  October 31, 2009

Guerrilla musical takes on insurance industry

Billionaires for Wealthcare at AHIP conference disrupt meeting with song in support of public option  October 24, 2009

Single payer MD's not invited to White House

President meets with doctors who support his reforms but excludes MD's who support "medicare for all"  October 7, 2009

Fear tactics in health reform

Bishop Gene Robinson Pt.2: The struggle for reform should be fierce but never return "evil with evil"  September 17, 2009

Did Obama change the game? Pt.2

Hickey: A health reform bill is only beginning of public fight to gain power away from private hands  September 13, 2009

Is "trigger" a victory?

If a public option is only a "trigger," does that represent real reform?  September 13, 2009

Obama's insurance option

Swanson: Obama took a moral stand on not spending money rather than on giving people health care  September 11, 2009

Obama seizes the moment but did he change the game

Congressional speech: A political victory for Obama, but is it a victory for the health care reform?  September 10, 2009

What Obama should say

Roger Hickey, head of Campaign for America's Future says Obama must defend the public option  September 9, 2009

Can Obama steer the health care debate?

Wright: The public option has to set a standard for the private industry  September 9, 2009

The health care wars Pt.2

From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a discussion after a town hall meeting in Virginia  September 3, 2009

The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Healthcare in Tulsa

Americans living without health insurance in a church-sponsored free health clinic in Tulsa, Oklahoma  September 1, 2009

Health-care wars

From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a report from a town hall in Virginia with Howard Dean  August 31, 2009

Canadians talk to Americans Pt 2

Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts  August 27, 2009

Obama's PhRMA deal

Smith: Obama's strategy was to vilify the drug companies and then cut deals with them in secret  August 21, 2009

Obama's compromise on health care reform

RealNews Replay -Swanson: Obama's mistake was he started with a compromise with insurance companies  August 18, 2009

UK Twitter campaign defends National Health

Thousands Twitter to defend UK's National Health Service against attacks from American right  August 17, 2009

Health care debate heats up Pt2

Fault Lines uncovers forces that are spending millions of dollars to influence the debate  August 8, 2009

Health care debate heats up

Fault Lines - uncovers the forces that are spending millions of dollars to influence the debate  August 7, 2009

Progressive Democrats take a stand on health care

Some members of Congress are going to fight for a robust public option and a single-payer amendment  August 3, 2009

Health care or disease care? Pt.2

Len Saputo: We need publicly funded health care, but we need more - a system based on prevention  July 20, 2009

Health care or disease care? Pt.1

Len Saputo: We need publicly funded health care, but we need more - a system based on prevention  July 19, 2009

USW president supports single-payer health care

Leo Gerard: I think we should fight for single-payer health care, fight for a principled position  July 8, 2009

Health-care reform debate

Thousands of supporters of Obama's plan rallied in Washington but some say his reform is not enough  June 30, 2009

Prescription for America

President Obama presents his health care plan  June 29, 2009

Jan Schakowsky on health care reform

Can you please insurance companies and have a public plan at the same time?  June 25, 2009

Health care a human right?

A single payer rep finally testifies to Congress; insurance industry steps up attack on any public plan  June 21, 2009

Canadian health care: Fact vs. fiction

Natalie Mehra: Flaws in Canadian system due to lack of democracy and funding, not lack of privatization  June 17, 2009

Everything is on the table except what's not

The issue of political feasibility is being questioned by proponents of single-payer system  May 28, 2009

Cutting the heart out of health-care reform? Pt.2

Hickey: Now is the time for people to pressure their representatives for a public health-care option  May 20, 2009

Is public health care "off the table"?

Hickey: People need to be heard now before the "heart of health-care reform" is lost  May 19, 2009

Single-payer advocates protest Senate hearing

Chair of Finance Committee takes single-payer plan off the table and calls for "more police"  May 8, 2009

Protest meets health insurance lobby

Lobby group speaks against public health care at AHIP insurance forum  March 15, 2009

Groups protest health insurance heavyweights

Protestors say: "We are the 48 million Americans who cannot access health care today!"  March 11, 2009

What kind of health care reform?

Roger Hickey of Campaign for America's Future says reform must be within what's possible  February 16, 2009

HIV / AIDS Season: Have we seen the worst?

Frontline Club tonight with a discussion that asks the question: Have we seen the worst?  February 6, 2009

McCain attacks Canadian and European health care

Is McCain right when he says Canadian and European health care not as good as US? Pt. 2  October 31, 2008

Stressed out over personal debt

AP: Stress from deepening debt causing major health problems for millions of Americans  June 16, 2008

Candidates and health care

Dean Baker: A good public plan needed to compete on a level playing field with private plans (3 of 3)  February 21, 2008

Tom Morris reports from Washington, D.C.

Why don’t more Americans have health insurance?

US town seeks to become new Guantanamo

Rob Reynolds reports on the US town in Montana that has offered to become the new Guantanamo  October 21, 09

Canadians talk to Americans about health care

People from Toronto respond to a US advertising campaign about the Canadian health-care system  October 21, 09

Health reform and the "Rahm factor"

Rep. John Conyers speaks to the National Press Club on health care reform  October 21, 09

Health reform: dead or alive?

Ford: By excluding single payer plan, Obama allowed the right to dominate the reform debate  October 21, 09

Obama should force the votes on health care

Richard Wolff: Obama must make his party vote for real health care reform  October 21, 09

Tamiflu 'should not be given to children'

UK scientists urge government to rethink its strategy of giving swine flu anti-virals to some children  October 21, 09

Town Hall with Senator Benjamin Cardin 4

Senator Benjamin Cardin meets a raucous crowd in Maryland and answers questions on health care reform  October 21, 09

Town Hall with Senator Benjamin Cardin 6

Senator Benjamin Cardin meets a raucous crowd in Maryland and answers questions on health care reform  October 21, 09

 

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