SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE Working for passage of the "United States National Health Care Act", also known as, the "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act" (H.R. 676) |
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CALL US AT 412-371-6650 About Us
We are an all-volunteer, grassroots group advocating national, universal, single-payer health care. We are funded entirely by contributions sent by individuals to: Single-Payer Poll, Survey, and Initiative Results (LINK)
UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AROUND THE WORLD Summary of Coalition Activities Details for 2008 YouTube Video: "HR 676 - The Single-Payer Solution" This excellent video explains the problem and the single-payer solution in 17 minutes. Contact your representatives in Washington. Ask them to become co-sponsors of HR 676 and to refuse to take campaign money from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Groups working for Single-Payer
Unions for Single Payer Health CareHealth Care for All Pennsylvania Student Alliance for Healthcare Reform (STAHR)PASNAPAmerican Patients United
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CONGRESSMEN MIKE DOYLE |
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION SUPPORTING HR 676 (DETAILS)
PITTSBURGH CITY COUNCIL EMBRACES
SINGLE-PAYER (DETAILS [PDF])
U.S. CONFERENCE OF MAYORS (LINK)
Your Financial Contribution
Please review the letter we recently sent to supporters asking for contributions. While we have no staff or offices, our continuous growth and ever-widening activities are producing expenses beyond what can be paid for out of our pockets or by passing the basket at our meetings. Read the letter here.
HEALTHCARE for America NOW ???
A new coalition called Health Care for America Now (HCAN) has been in the news lately. Although the name is similar to the group with which our Coalition is associated, Healthcare-NOW, HCAN is not promoting single-payer, universal healthcare. Here is a article outlining some of important differences between the HCAN proposal and single-payer. For a lively debate highlighting the differences, listen to Dr. David Himmelstein, associate professor of medicine at Harvard University and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, and Richard Kirsch, national campaign manager for HCAN.
Healthcare-NOW's response to the passage of the House health bill. (ARTICLE)
Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
by Marcia Angell (ARTICLE)
Single-Payer Health Care and Publicly Funded Elections THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COALITION FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE HAS ENDORSED THE "FAIR ELECTIONS NOW ACT" LINK |
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SAVE OUR COMMUNITY HOSPITALS (LINK) |
"What's going on, right now, here, epitomizes what's wrong with our country's system of health care." |
TRUMKA, MASSA, AND FERLO SUPPORT SINGLE-
PAYER IN CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AT
NETROOTS NATION CONFERENCE (VIDEO)
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Pittsburgh Congressman Mike Doyle (left) and Congressman Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) champion Single-Payer in the House House Energy and Commerce Committee. STORY/VIDEO |
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If Congressman Doyle is your Representative thank him for his strong support. |
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COALTION GOES TO WASHINGTON TO MEET WITH CONGRESS AND HOLD RALLY TO MARK THE 44TH BIRTHDAY OF MEDICARE |
PRESS CONFERECE AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB (VIDEO) |
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State Legislators for Single-Payer, HR 676
Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo and NY State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried Launch New National Campaign to Win State Legislator Support for HR 676. |
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“HEALTH CARE: HUMAN RIGHT
AND MORAL IMPERATIVE” Conference, organized by the Coalition with support from the Presbyterian Church USA, draws hundreds. (STORY) |
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U.S. Representative Eric Massa (NY-Corning) addresses the Conference at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |
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PROTEST IN CRANBERRY !!!
Altmire gets an earful from constituents and a pocketful from health care business interests. Post-Gazette Story
HEALTH CARE IS A
HUMAN RIGHT !!!
NOT A COMMODITY
Coalition Protests Opening of Highmark Store in North Hills

In the October 7th Presidential Debate, President Obama said that health care is a human right. We believe that there is a moral imperative to provide health care for everyone.
President Obama said what the rest of the industrialized world already knows: health care is not just another consumer product to be packaged, marketed, and sold to the few who can still afford it.
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What's the Matter with Massachusetts?
From the hearing held on Capitol Hill, February 25th,
"National Lessons from State Health Reform:
The Massachusetts Case Study"
| Q: How is the Massachusetts' health plan like a hospital gown? | |
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David Himmelstein, MD, Cambridge Hospital Physician, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School on YouTube. |
| A: It looks a lot like coverage until you start to inspect carefully around the back. | |
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President Obama needs |
Barack Obama has often spoken favorably of single-payer (LINK, LINK, LINK). But the healthcare program he proposed during the campaign was not a single-payer plan. It was a plan that included a big role for the insurance industry, guaranteeing that the plan will not be “universal” and that it will not do enough to contain healthcare costs. |
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Cartoon by John Jonik