OC HealthCare Supports Single-Payer HealthCare
Part Two of the “Grassroots Strategies and Recommendations from Activists” panel at the Healthcare-NOW! 2009 Strategy Conference in St. Louis, featuring Mikuak Rai from the Coalition for Uninsured and Underinsured for Single Payer DC, Allison Guttu from National Women’s LIberation, Rita Valenti from Healthcare-NOW! Georgia, David Breitzman from Human Rights Advocate NYC, Don Bechler from Single Payer NOW! CA, Sandy Fox from Western PA Coalition for Single Payer, and Missourians for Single Payer. For more information please visit healthcare-now.org
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Part One of the “Grassroots Strategies and Recommendations from Activists” panel at the Healthcare-NOW! 2009 Strategy Conference in St. Louis, featuring Mikuak Rai from the Coalition for Uninsured and Underinsured for Single Payer DC, Allison Guttu from National Women’s LIberation, Rita Valenti from Healthcare-NOW! Georgia, David Breitzman from Human Rights Advocate NYC, Don Bechler from Single Payer NOW! CA, Sandy Fox from Western PA Coalition for Single Payer, and Missourians for Single Payer. For more information please visit healthcare-now.org
On October 28th, 1997, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton held a secret meeting where they reached a groundbreaking deal to create a centrist political coalition to reform Social Security and Medicare. Although the Lewinsky scandal ultimately undermined their agreement, the efforts of these men, and others in Congress, might serve as a model for members of both parties interested in addressing the long-term shortfalls in the nation’s entitlement programs.
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Tommy Douglas at the 1979 S.O.S. Medicare Conference in Ottawa. The Canadian Health Coalition was formed as a result of this meeting.
We are the Friends of Medicare in British Columbia.
We are the Friends of Medicare in British Columbia.
Dr. Irfan Dhalla of Canadian Doctors for Medicare is interviewed by Ish Theilheimer at the Canadian Health Coalition 30th anniversary event – recorded at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on November 17, 2009.
Nik Nanos of Nanos Research is interviewed by Ish Theilheimer at the Canadian Health Coalition 30th anniversary event about Canadian attitudes toward medicare – recorded at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on November 17, 2009.