from Healthcare-NOW For Immediate Release Dec 10, 2009 Chanting “55 is not enough, Medicare for all,” 9 protesters were arrested at a sit-in at Sen. Schumer’s office in mid-town Manhattan this morning. Referring to Schumer’s push to lower Medicare age eligibility to 55, advocates for Medicare-for-All state that opening it up to only one portion of the population is not enough and will not begin... 

Socialist Party USA Statement While citizens in most other industrialized nations enjoyed the benefits of publicly administered healthcare from the aftermath of WW II forward, Americans have suffered under a healthcare system dominated by private corporations. For-profit healthcare has produced negative health outcomes at all levels of the system. More than 48 million people have no health insurance,... 

by Billy Wharton A simple question for the tea baggers. Where is the socialism now? Frenetic right-wingers spent a good part of the summer shouting about the “government takeover of health care,” or the “stealth socialist health care plan.” Now that the “Affordable Healthcare for America Act” has been passed by a slim margin in the House of Representatives, there are few traces of anything... 

by Billy Wharton from Examiner.com Few punches are pulled in California Newsreels’ documentary adaptation of Maggie Mahar’s 2006 investigative book Money Driven Medicine. This physician-centered film exposes the infrequently examined ways in which a privately controlled health care system impinges on the relationship between doctor and patient. As Dr. Andrey Espinoza argues in the film, there... 

by Billy Wharton from Examiner.com Seventeen health care activists were arrested this morning after a conducting a sit-in at the offices of the health insurance company Aetna. The protesters demanded that Aetna officials immediately approve all procedures which were recommended by physicians. Denial of medically necessary care is a key strategy employed by private health insurance companies in order... 

by Billy Wharton published on the MRZine The frequently imbibing comedian W. C. Fields once proudly declared: “Everything I do is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.” The adjectives used by Fields perfectly characterize the role of the private health insurance industry in the debate about health care reform. As the debate intensifies more and more private health care profits are being... 

by Billy Wharton – Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal August 19, 2009 – The were two big winners at the recent “town hall” healthcare meeting held in the North Bronx New York City neighborhood of Parkchester on August 17 – the lunatic right wing and the private health insurance industry. These victories came despite the fact that the vast majority of those lined up... 

by Josh Hatala A Socialist WebZine Exclusive! In recent months the health care debate has reached a fevered pitch as all sides clamber to be heard. This debate has centered around two options: the plan proposed by Obama which may, or may not, include a public option but maintains a system of for-profit insurance, or the continuation of the status quo with, perhaps, some “tort reform” and an unclear... 

by Billy Wharton from Links: Journal of International Socialist Renewal July 19, 2009 — Consider it a symptom of a larger disease. A fervent commitment to defend the profit margins of private industry seems to be a national religion for politicians in the United States. No matter how deeply the private sector mucks up society, some senator or representative or, if things get really out of control,... 

***YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF Demonstration at bottom For Immediate Release May 5, 2009 Contact: Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action, (202) 468-8868, russellmokhiber@gmail.com Katie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! (330) 618-6379, healthcarenow08@gmail.com Margaret Flowers, M.D., Physicians for a National Health Program – Maryland chapter, (410) 591-0892, nose1@aol.com Kevin Zeese, ProsperityAgenda.us, (301) 996-6582,...