Links
National
From Physicians for a National Health Plan: Table comparing the Federal Health Care Reform with Single-payer and their Key Research Findings.
Sick Around the World (video) - PBS Frontline's search for what the U.S. might learn from four other wealthy nations.
Terry Gross's 8/24/09 Fresh Air interview with T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America' (audio). Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors' offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Take Action
Healthcare NOT Warfare - Campaign and Petition
Mad as Hell Doctors On September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care "on the road" in a wrapped and branded Motor Home headed for Washington D.C.
Senator Bernie Sanders petition to congress for single payer
Single Payer Action Everybody in, Nobody out - Direct action for single payer.
Health Voting Bloc in Support of Single Payer Health Care - Gain national single payer health care for all citizens. Demand that your elected officials support H.R. 676 & S.703 the national single payer health care reform bills.
Sick and Wrong Matt Taibbi's article on Healthcare in Rolling Stone magazine #1086
VIDEO of author summarizing Sick and Wrong: Part 1 (easiest way to eliminate the red tape) | Part 2 (how the Democrats wound up on the defensive) | Part 3 (Individual Mandate)
Bill Moyers Journal on Health Care Reform - July 10
How To Reform Health Care Reform - NPR's Talk of the Nation, 7/10/09. Writing in the New York Review of Books, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and retired M.D. Arnold Relman says President Obama's health care plan won't work
Background Posts on Universal Health Care at Change.org
The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable.
H.R. 676, John Conyers' bill for universal, single-payer health care
Health Care NOW Medicare for All - Organizing for a Quality National Single Payer Healthcare System for All, H.R. 676
Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, the national alliance for single payer healthcare reform - publicly funded, privately delivered healthcare for all.
Physicians for a National Health Program a non-profit research and education organization of 15,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance.
Sicko-Cure and... Checkup on Sicko Facts
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Campaign for Health Care Justice (Cape Care has endorsed the mission of this campaign).
Health Reform Program of the Boston University School of Public Health designs practical solutions to health care problems, addressing: patients' inability to afford needed prescription drugs; disproportionate closing of hospitals in minority and lower-income communities; methods of winning affordable health care for all; and coverage, cost, and caregiver survival problems in Massachusetts.
Mass-Care to establish a Single Payer Health Care System in Massachusetts so that all residents of the Commonwealth will have access to comprehensive, quality, affordable and equitable health care because it is basic to life and human dignity.
Health Care for Massachusetts Campaign - a proposed Constitutional Amendment would require the Legislature and Governor to enact laws that make sure every Massachusetts resident has access to affordable, comprehensive and equitably financed health insurance coverage.
State Legislature - Joint Committees:
Health Care Finance - Members' Contact Info
Public Health - Members' Contact Info
Labor
Open Letter from Massachusetts Labor Leaders to President Obama
Organizations and Government Bodies Endorsing HR 676 (515 as of Apr 20, '09)
Out-of-State
Guaranteed Healthcare | We Don't Need Insurance, We Need Health Care - The California Nurses' Campaign
MN Universal Health Care Coalition
Minnesota Health Plan (pending legislation)
Other
2009 report: Where For-Profit Insurers Invest what was Supposed To Be Our Health Care Money - How is it acceptable for top health insurers to have billions of dollars of holdings in cigarette manufacturing, tobacco pesticides, pesticide-intensive agriculture, dioxin-producing chlorine industries, military contractors or mountaintop removal mining? And how can "mandates" force people to provide such revenues?
Prior report and article How Private Insurance is Bad For Our Health.
The California Nurses Association on Bill Moyers Journal - "CheneyCare" for what ails America.