Health insurance companies are revving up to stop single payer in Vermont. “You can’t see them. They’re hidden from view and probably always will be. But the health insurance industry’s big guns are in place and pointed directly at the citizens of Vermont,” writes Wendell Potter.
Great piece from Lawrence O’Donnell on why Single Payer is the only real solution to America’s Healthcare Crisis. A MUST SEE!!
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February 7, 2012 SINGLE PAYER MINI-LOBBY DAY
Join our allies in Single Payer New York for a lobby day in Albany in support of single-payer universal healthcare! Plan to arrive in Albany for a briefing at a location near the Capitol building at 10am. Lobby visits will be scheduled from 11am – 3pm. Roundtrip tickets availabe from NYC to Albany using a variety of bus lines including TrailWays and MegaBus. RSVP to hcn.nyc@gmail.com.
February 8, 2012 – HCN NYC Monthly Planning meeting 6:30pm, 220 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor.
July 30th, 2012 Medicare’s 47th Anniversary – Details coming soon!
Join us at The Woods in Brooklyn this Monday for some drinks and a recap of this year’s accomplishments. The Woods will kindly be donating a portion of the bar, so there will be no cover at the door.
Join us, and bring a friend as we say, “Cheers! To the Volunteers!”
Hope to see you there!
Join nurses in their December 20 protest against Wall Street giant Cerberus/Steward Health Care.
Join the RNs from National Nurses United and the Massachusetts Nurses Association as they fight for their patients against Cerberus/Steward, a colossal Wall Street finance company that has gobbled up nearly a dozen health care facilities in Massachusetts.
Cerberus’ recent foray into the health care sector is reading like a hospital-based version of the banking/housing collapse of 2008 — a disaster Main Street America is still reeling from. But nurses will fight to make sure that Cerberus does NOT do the same to the health care sector.
It is no coincidence that Cerberus’ company name has its roots in Greek mythology, where a Cerberus is the three-headed dog guarding the gates of hell. Since Cerberus took over nearly a dozen Massachusetts-based hospitals last year, RNs and health care professionals have been living
in health care hell. In fact, Cerberus:
* Makes daily threats to close hospitals and services
* Refuses to honor its signed contracts
* Targets and fires nurses who advocate for patients
* Fails to provide the most basic supplies to patients in an effort to cut costs
* Engages in a variety of anti-union attacks against nurses
Stand with the RNs of Main Street in their fight against the greed
of Wall Street!
HCN-NYC will join Healthcare for the 99% and thousands of other protesters in the:
The Rebuild Our Economy March
When: Thurs., Nov. 17th at 4:30
Where: 125 Worth Street (north side of Foley Square), march to the Brooklyn Bridge
Bring clipboards, signs, and t-shirts if you have them.
November 12th, 2011:
Members of HCN-NYC will join our fellow single-payer activists from around New York State, Single-Payer New York, in Binghamton to discuss plans for the upcoming year. Josh and Omar will giving a short presentation on the organizing strategies that we have been using in NYC.
Members of HCN NYC join members of Healthcare for the 99%, the Universal Healthcare Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. Meetings are held every Sunday and Wednesday at 5:30pm at the Atrium at 60 Wall Street.
OWS Healthcare for the 99% website:
http://owshealthcare.wordpress.com/
Healthcare-Now! NYC participated in OWS Healthcare for the 99%’s March Against the Insurance Industry.
SEE HCN NYC VIDEOS HERE
Here’s some great pre-event press, of a Speak-Out with Healthcare for the 99%, by NY1 that explains the march well.
Keith Olbermann interviewed Dr Steven Auerbach of PNHP providing some great post-event coverage.
The video below includes Jean Fox, Omar Kutty, and Josh Starcher of Healthcare-NOW! NYC supporting the Communications Workers of America, District One in their fight for a better contract. We stand by CWA who has endorsed Single-Payer healthcare.
