Articles of Interest
More States Move Toward Single-Payer Healthcare
By Davis Swanson
truthout.org, February 17, 2010
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address
By Barack Obama
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, January 27, 2010
How Wall Street Destroyed Health Care
By Paul Craig Roberts
CounterPunch, January 22, 2010
Consequences of the Privatized Funding of Medical Care and the Privatized Electoral Process
By Vicente Navarro, M.D.
American Journal of Public Health, January 14, 2010
A Call for Health Reform
By Stefan Hard
Times Argus, January 13, 2010
GOP: Va. senators shouldn't support bill
By Garren Shipley
Northern Virginia Daily, January 12, 2010
Vermont Health Care Debate
By Rachel Kent
Fox44News, January 12, 2010
White House Believes "Liberal Angst" Over Healthcare Will Go Away
By Donna Smith
Mike & Friends blog, January 11, 2010
Medicaid to be hot Richmond topic
By Garren Shipley
Northern Virginia Daily, January 9, 2010
Va. official signs letter protesting 'kickback'
By Garren Shipley
Northern Virginia Daily, January 7, 2010
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February 25: Sidewalk Summit
On the day that President Obama convenes a "make-or-break" bipartisan summit on healthcare reform, patients, nurses, and doctors will meet in the streets of Washington DC and around the country to demand a real solution - improved Medicare-for-All. Join the Sidewalk Summit at the NE Corner of Lafayette Park (H St and Vermont) in Washington, DC at 9 AM on Thursday, February 25th to show your support for single-payer health care.
March 5, 6, 7: National Labor Conference
The Labor Campaign for Single Payer invites representatives of all labor organizations that support single-payer Medicare for All healthcare reform to a national labor meeting to be held at the National Labor College near Washington, DC on March 5, 6 and 7, 2010.
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