What next for single-payer health activists?

By: nationalnursesmovement Thursday November 12, 2009 3:58 pm

Does passage of a bill that funnels millions of additional Americans into the private insurance system, and the decision of House leaders to shut down debate on one single payer amendment and scuttle another, mean the end of the years of efforts by single payer activists to win the most comprehensive reform of all?

For the nation’s nurses and the many grassroots activists, the answer is clearly no.

Single Payer Universal Healthcare Gets a Hearing Today at 10:30am

By: selise Wednesday June 10, 2009 6:32 am

Congratulations to all who have worked to demand that Single Payer Universal Healthcare be included in discussions on healthcare reform. Some cracks in the edifice of exclusion are beginning to show.

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