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Intro - General info
- Dr. Aaron Carroll - Rating US Health Care
- Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator
- Polling consistently shows that Americans approve of single payer principles
- Bill Moyers - interviews PNHP founders
- Bill Moyers - interviews two expert analysts of health care
- Congressman Weiner does a brilliant interview on Morning Joe
- PNHP - Where is my national health care card?
- Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance
Mandates are not the Answer
- Obama - health care mandates are like forcing the homeless to buy a house (they would if they could) - Obama abandoned that idea!
- This is Nothing Like The Netherlands; That Is Why Individual Mandate Is Unacceptable
- It will require people to buy a private good or service as a basic condition of living in the U.S
- Are mandates constitutional?
- The mandate puts the government in the untenable position of forcing everyone to buy a shitty product from private companies enjoying ant-monopoly protections.
- Massachusetts shows that just mandating health insurance doesn't make health care affordable
Healthcare Around the World and in America
- Frontline (T.R. Reid) - Sick Around the World - How other countries manage universal health care
- T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America' (NPR Radio - Fresh Air Interview)
- TR Reid speaks on health care around the world
- Health, Money, and Fear - Health Care in America
- Bill Moyers - Health Care Reform in America
- 60 minutes - Remote Area Medical, intended to bring free medicine to remote parts of the world, now helps thousands of Americans
Subsidy Information
Canadians Love their Health Care System
Whistle Blowers exposing the insurance companies
Learn more about single-payer & supporting organizations
- PNHP - Physicians for a National Health Plan - home site
- PNHP - new to single payer
- PNHP - on incremental health care reform
- PNHP - on the public option
- PNHP - FAQ
- Single Payer Organizations listed by state
- Hoosiers for a Common Sense Health Plan
- Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan - Northeast Indiana Chapter
- Healthcare Now
- Unions for Single Payer
- Politifact - unbiased fact check site
Existing Single Payer Legislation
- HR676 - the House's Version of Single Payer (summary and link to full bill)
- Wikipedia on HR676
- ****HR676 Single Payer IS coming up for a vote in front of the WHOLE House! - Call your Congressman to support it
- HR676 has at least 80 cosponsors in the House
- S703 - The Senate's Version of Single Payer
- HR 676 - check out the bit on how HR6767 proposes to fund health care
- Compare the House and Senate existing single payer legislation
Other Health Care Plans
How much will single payer cost the government?
Why single-payer is "off the table"
- Bill Moyers - how single payer has been "taken off the table" - the basics (5/22/09)
- Head of Senate Finance Committee, who took single payer off the table, received more health care lobby money than any other
- NPR: Who has access to Baucus
- Fair Study - Media Blackout
- Health Care lobbies Congress to the tune of $1.4 million per day
- Bill Moyers - towards a healthier debate on health reform (8/14/09)
- Single Payer & Interlocking Directories
- Bill Moyers - on the quiet Washington Post Scandal (7/10/09)
- Special interests keep single payer off the table
- Special interests keep single payer off the table
Why wouldn't the public option work?
State Initiatives
- provisions to allow Single Payer at the state level
- Single-payer health care: dead in Washington, but alive in the states
- California passed single payer twice - vetoed both times by Scharzenagger
- California Single Payer Organization
- Vermont passed single payer - vetoed by Republican governor
- Minnesota - has much political support for state single payer
- Pennsylvania state legislation - savings to tax payers broken down by county
- Maine Single Payer Legislation
- Kucinich amendment to allow single payer at state level was approved at committee level
- Kucinich amendment stripped out of final house bill
You should know ...
- Check the facts in your state
- Tool to compare major health care plans in debate
- ****HR676 Single Payer IS coming up for a vote - see how Weiner helped make it happen
- Rachel Maddow - Health Care Industry Putting Soaring Profits Before People
- Obama's doctor does not support Obama's plan - he supports single payer
- Obama wheels and deals with Big Pharma - to our detriment
- Bill Moyers - Rage on the Airwaves
- Hoosiers should know Senator Evan Bayh's conflict of interest regarding health reform
- Most people who went medically bankrupt had health insurance
- Just because you have insurance NOW doesn't mean you're safe
- You can use this link to find health care statistics for your Congressional District (good info for writing letters to the editor)
- Kucinich amendment to House Bill - allows states to try single payer
- Republicans Reveal Their Hypocrisy On Health Care, Refuse To Support Bill To Kill Government-Run Medicare
- A century of Health Care reform in 8 minutes
Cartoons
Funny but Good Videos on the topic
- The Health Insurance Game - Sadly Funny
- Jon Stewart - on Glen Beck's flip-flop on the American Health Care System
- Colbert Nation Talks to Jonathon Cohn (8/11/09)
- Punk Patriot - Socialism, BOO!
- Commercial for Single Payer (Colorado)
- Parody: Study - Most Children Strongly Opposed to Health Care
- Billionaires for Wealth Care at Susan Davis town hall
- Billionares for Wealthcare
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