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Friday, 25 August 2017 02:56

Single Payer: Because black lives matter...and so does black healthcare

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Single Payer: Because black lives matter...and so does black healthcare

Black Lives Matter has its supporters (43 percent of Americans, per Pew Research Center), as well as its detractors (22 percent), but one thing is unmistakable: it has brought visibility to a very real problem. For too long, the general public has ignored the increasingly frequent violence against African-Americans, especially men.

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Sunday, 28 May 2017 15:56

Single Payer Healthcare, It's Not Pie-in-the-Sky, It's About Stopping the Pie Shop Piracy!

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Single Payer Healthcare, It's Not Pie-in-the-Sky, It's About Stopping the Pie Shop Piracy!

The movement for Healthcare Justice is currently coming to a peak in California with the recent introduction and now advancement to the State Senate floor for a vote due next week on SB 562 The Healthy California Act.  

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Thursday, 06 April 2017 01:28

Medicare for All: Give Me Healthcare or Give Me Death

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Medicare for All: Give Me Healthcare or Give Me Death

Where are the screams about those death panels now? As Trump-Bannon-Ryan and friends craft their healthcare path forward with the leaders of the swamp team, no one is crying “foul” about the bold, proud creation of those famed death panels.

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Saturday, 22 October 2016 00:00

Sanders Champions Colorado Single Payer Effort as Model for Nation

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Sen. Bernie Sanders told voters in Boulder, Colorado on Monday: "Stand tall and vote yes on Amendment 69."

"Colorado can send a shot that will be heard all over the country and all over the world."

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Monday, 10 October 2016 00:00

Single Payer: Because black lives matter...and so does black healthcare

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Single Payer: Because black lives matter...and so does black healthcare

Black Lives Matter has its supporters (43 percent of Americans, per Pew Research Center), as well as its detractors (22 percent), but one thing is unmistakable: it has brought visibility to a very real problem. For too long, the general public has ignored the increasingly frequent violence against African-Americans, especially men.

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Friday, 08 July 2016 00:00

New Study Offers More Evidence Dems Need to Fight for Medicare-for-All

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"The slowdown seems to have been achieved by forcing poor and middle-class Americans to choose between paying rent, buying groceries, or going to the doctor when they're sick," said lead author Dr. Samuel Dickman.

'Our findings dramatize the urgent need for national health insurance—a single-payer reform with first-dollar coverage—that would assure that all Americans can get the care they need'

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Tuesday, 24 May 2016 00:00

Sanders Has It Exactly Right: Majority of Americans Want 'Medicare for All' System

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A member of National Nurses United holds a sign at a Bernie Sanders rally that reads: "Love it. Improve it. Medicare for All."

Gallup survey results highlight 'broad, national longing for a more humane health care system that treats health care as a human right'

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Saturday, 07 May 2016 00:00

Colorado May Replace Obamacare with Single Payer

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Colorado May Replace Obamacare with Single Payer

A referrendum is on the ballot in November. Bernie Sanders may not win the Democratic nomination for president, but his political revolution could succeed after all.

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Wednesday, 06 April 2016 00:00

Healthcare Human Right

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Healthcare Human Right

It is a moral outrage for a country as wealthy as ours to leave 60 million people with no reliable access to health care and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. In addition, despite spending nearly twice as much as other developed nations on health care, our system performs poorly, because the private U.S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up as much as one-third of all the money and pharmaceutical interests overburden America by avoiding price competition.

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