| Video resources Available for online viewing: California Nurses Association (segment on Bill Moyers Journal) Sick Around the World (presented by Frontline) Read a review here. A Tale of Two Countries (8-minute video on healthcare in Canada, produced by the Canadian Media Guild and Communications Workers of America) Children for HR 676 Single Payer (Lia, Age 11, daughter of 9/11 rescue worker Reggie Cervantes) Go Ahead and Die: Pirates of the Health Care-ibbean (cartoon with music by the Austin Lounge Lizards) Other videos (not available for online viewing): Unnatural Causes SiCKO |
Articles and videos
The Case for Single-Payer Healthcare
- Doctors to Candidates: Enact Single-Payer Health Reform
- Doctors,
Citing Mandate for Change, Call on Obama, Congress to 'Do the Right
Thing' on Health Reform
- Summary of H.R. 676
- Why We Need H.R. 676
- What Government Does Better: Health Care
- We Have Seen the Enemy—And Surrendered
- Single-Payer
System is the Way to Go
- Government Health Care Could be Modeled on Medicare
- Make Original Medicare the Foundation for Health Care Reform
- Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate
- Why We Need to Dump Health Insurance Corporations
- Health Care and Ghosts of War
- Disputations: Is Single-Payer Health Care the Best Option?
- The Battle to Save Medicare
- The Health Care Crisis
and What to Do About It
- How to Talk about Health Care
- They Say, You Say
- Universal Health Care (poem)
- Posturing Coalitions: The Latest Attempt to Block Health Care Reform
- Unions Back Plan that Could Kill Off Real Health Care Reform
- The Realities of Massachusetts Health Care Reform
- Copy Massachusetts' Health Reform? Not So Fast, Researchers Say
- Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit and Socializes Risk
- Filling
the Insurance Gap for Working People
The American people
- The Polling is Quite Clear: The American Public Supports Guaranteed Healthcare on the "Medicare for All" or "Single-Payer" Model
- 1,000 Picket Health Insurance Convention in [San Francisco]
- Can it Happen Here?
- The Polling is Quite Clear: The American Public Supports Guaranteed Healthcare on the "Medicare for All" or "Single-Payer" Model (flyer)
Doctors
- Most Doctors Support National Health Insurance, New Study Shows
- Internist
Society Sees Single-Payer as Option
Business
Elected officials
- Republican County Legislature Strongly Endorses H.R. 676
- [New York] State Assembly Points the Way Forward on Health Care
- City of Austin Backs "Single-Payer" Health Plan
Unions
- Labor Councils Endorse H.R. 676
- Texas State Building and Construction Trades Council Endorses H.R. 676
Healthcare activists
The High Price
of Healthcare- US Healthcare Costs More, Delivers Less
- The Wrong Place to Be Chronically Ill
- 'Medicare
Advantage' a Misnomer: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Private Insurance to
Inadequately Cover Seniors' Health Care
- Women
Buying Health Policies Pay a Penalty
- As Budgets Tighten, More
People Decide Medical Care Can Wait
- Nonprofit Hospitals, Once for the Poor, Strike it Rich
- Co-Payments Soar for Drugs with High Prices
- Texas Insurance Premiums Jump 40 Percent from 2001 to 2005
- Cash Before Chemo: Hospitals Get Tough
- Even the Insured Feel Strain of Health Costs
- Health Care Crisis at Tipping Point
- Health Insurer Tied Bonuses to Dropping Sick Policyholders
- Hospital Attemps Deportation of Woman with Inadequate Insurance
- Trying to Save by Increasing Doctors' Fees
- Employer-Provided Insurance Continues to Decline
- GM's Pain Hits Retirees
- Firefighters and Prescription Drugs
- Insurers Don't Like to "Share"
- A City Where Hospitals Are As Ill As the Patients
- Insurance Fraud: One for the Redundancy Department?
- Employer Health Costs to Rise 10% This Year, Study Says
- Health Plans Say They'll Risk Losing Members to Protect Profit Margins
- Doctors-Insurers Confrontation Heats Up
- Losing Ground: How the Loss of Adequate Health Insurance is Burdening Working Families
- Consumers Cut Health Spending, As Economic Downturn Takes Toll
- Health Care Costs Increase Strain, Studies Find
- Healthcare
Bottom-Line: Workers Pay More
Healthcare Reform and the 2008
Election
- The
2008 Presidential Candidates' Health Reform Proposals: Choices for
America
- Dr. Don McCanne Contrasts the Healthcare Proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama
- Obama Health Plan Outperforms McCain
Plan in Coverage and Efficiency
- Pushing the Single-Payer Solution
- Health Policy Placebos
- Voters' Guide to Single Payer Supporters
- Diagnosing "Guaranteed Health Care" in Democrats' Platform
- Just Words? What the Democratic Platform Really Says About Health Care, and What that Says About Barack Obama
The Plight of the Uninsured
- 'Myth' of Uninsured Overcrowding ERs Debunked, Study Says
- U.S.
Should Not Out-Source Patients
- Report Looks at Life and Death of Uninsured: Lack of Diagnosis or Treatment Claims and Estimated Seven Texans Each Day
- Millions with Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment
- Health Care Horror Stories
- Hope for Patients Who Lost Policies
- A Grim Diagnosis for Texas Children
- University of Texas Medical Branch Cutting Indigent-Care Program Funds by $24 Million
- The Uninsured
Often Donate Organs, But Rarely Receive Them
- Within
the System of No-System
- Japanese
Pay Less for More Health Care
- Mythbusting
Canadian Health Care
- Health
Care for All (series on National Public Radio)
- Dutch Health System Rated Best, U.S. Worst—Polls
- How to Heal the World
- Yikes!!! I'm a
Slave to Socialized Medicine
Healthcare for Veterans
- 300,000
Vets Have Mental Problems, 320,000 Had Brain Injuries
- The
Truth about Veteran Suicides
- The
Soldiers Project: Mental Health Care Confidential
- Veterans
Not Entitled to Mental Health Care, US Lawyers Argue
- Veterans
Attest to PTSD Neglect by VA
- Veterans
Without Health Care
Related topics
- The
Health Care Union War
- Government
Suppresses Major Public Health Report
- Majority
Staff Report on Medicare Advantage by the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce (identifying issues
crucial to the integrity of Medicare)
- Dingell, Stupak Request Improved Accuracy, Guidelines for DTC [direct-to-consumer] Ads [for prescription drugs] press release by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce