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Category Archives: Single Payer-Health Care Reform
Single Payer: We’ve Tried The Rest; Now, Let’s Try The Best
Katy Bar The Door: We’re Coming For Single Payer. It’s as obvious as the nose on your face. Single Payer has been and always will be the only answer to our fractured U.S. health care delivery system. We are ready to join the rest of the educated countries on this planet to ensure health care as a human right. People Not Profits. Continue reading
Posted in FEATURED, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice
Tagged Affordable Care Act, Fix It, PNHP, single payer
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Fix It: What We Do When Something Is Broken
We look to our business leaders to provide innovative solutions and Richard Master, CEO of MCS Industries, Inc. is doing just that. When faced with rising health insurance costs dramatically impacting his bottom line, he set out to find out just why that was. The result: A fabulously produced documentary that dramatically talks to the need for a single payer health care delivery system to help business as well as individuals. Continue reading
Posted in FEATURED, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life
Tagged Fix It, healthcare reform, Richard Master, single payer, wendell potter
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No One Said It Was Going To Be Easy
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” From President John F. Kennedy’s Address at Rice University, Sept. 12, 1962 I am not … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Thoughts on Life
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Looking Good At 50
There are many reasons to celebrate as Medicare turns 50 this week. Yet it’s a time to ask why we still don’t have a “Medicare For All” single payer health care delivery system in this country and how the “for profit” insurance companies continue to make it impossible for many to access health care. Bonus points if you know where Lyndon Johnson signed this historic bill into law. Check it out at the end of our blog. Continue reading
Posted in Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life
Tagged ACA, Bernie Sanders, Health care reform, Medicare, single payer
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Fighting For Single Payer: Rose Roach Keeps Hope Alive For A Better Way For Health Care In The U.S.
No matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides about the Affordable Care Act, the fight for a single payer health care delivery system in this country continues. Health care as a human right. For profit insurers out of health care. “There are plenty of health care dollars,” Minnesota Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Roach tells us. “It’s a matter of allocating them to actual health care.” Read more about how Roach continues the push for single payer to bring our country in line with the rest of the educated world. Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Progressive Profiles, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged ACA, Labor for Single Payer, Minnesota Nurses Association, Rose Roach, single payer
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Hope: A Duty, Not A Nicety
We asked last month: “Where do you see hope?” We received some great responses and found other everyday life examples to share. Keeping hope alive in 2015 and beyond is our duty. Read and please add your comments at the end to encourage all of us. Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Environmental, Peace, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life, Voting and Electronic Voting Fraud
Tagged Hope, Labor for Single Payer, peace, TheBradBlog
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Many Hands Make Light Work
Our friends at Health Care For All Minnesota need our help. This fabulous group has been working tirelessly to bring single payer to the Land of 10,000 Lakes and as we approach the 2015 legislative session in Minnesota, we are … Continue reading
Posted in Single Payer-Health Care Reform
Tagged Health Care for All Minnesota, single payer
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Who’s Talking Single Payer? A Lot of People and Organizations
So who’s talking about single payer these days? If you look closely, it seems like a lot of folks and organizations. Don’t think for an instant that the push for single payer has left the discussion about health care reform. In the post-ACA implementation world, the voices calling for sanity in our health care delivery system are stronger than ever. Continue reading
Posted in Democratic Progressive Caucus, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Wisdom Voices Spotlight
Tagged Donna Smith, Labor for Single Payer, PNHP, Senator Bernie Sanders, single payer, Vermont Single Payer
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Single Payer: It Remains The Only Answer
The enrollment deadline is nearing for the Affordable Care Act (March 31, 2014). Although the ACA takes us one small step toward improving our for-profit health care delivery system, single payer remains the only answer. We here at Wisdom Voices will continue to tell the stories and provide the “facts and stats” that help move us toward that reality. We begin by connecting with David Dvorak, a member of Physicians For A National Health Plan (PNHP). Continue reading
Posted in Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice
Tagged ACA, David Dvorak, Donna Smith, Health Care for All Colorado, PNHP, single payer
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The ACA, Pope Francis & Me
Add me to the list of Affordable Care Act “success stories” now being heralded throughout the land. But as I navigated my state’s healthcare exchange to find access to affordable care, I couldn’t help but hear Pope Francis’ recent words as I realized we have left so many “on the fringes.” Continue reading
Posted in Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice
Tagged Cindy Young, MNsure, Pope Francis, single payer, the Affordable Care Act
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