Articles of Interest to Health Care Reform Activists in Virginia
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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
Single-Payer's Last Stand?
By Greg Kaufmann
The Nation, December 31, 2009
A Patient's View of the Senate Christmas Healthcare Gift
By Donna Smith
PNHP.org, December 28, 2009
Warner, Webb vote with fellow Democrats on health-care bill
By Tyler Whitley
Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 25, 2009
Senate Speech Heralds New Social Movement
By Margaret Flowers and Andy Coates
CommonDreams.org, December 20, 2009
Keck Students Voice Health Care Concerns
By Sara Reeve
USC News, December 18, 2009
Bodies Delivered to Senate Offices for Human Rights Day
By Mobilization for Health Care for All
December 11, 2009
Senator Sanders Offers Medicare-for-All Amendment in Senate
By PNHP
Press Release, December 3, 2009
Sitting in for Healthcare
By Diana Novak
In These Times, November 16, 2009
Solidarity, Individualism and Public Goods
By Alan Nasser
Counterpunch, November 16, 2009
What next for the single payer movement?
By National Nurses Movement
Daily Kos, November 12, 2009
Statement by CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro on the House bill on healthcare
By Rose Ann DeMoro
November 10, 2009
Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?
By Marcia Angell, M.D.
The Huffington Post, November 8, 2009
Remember Medicare for All in the healthcare reform debate
By Kay Tillow
The Hill, November 3, 2009
Four Arrested at Baltimore Health Insurance Protest
By Sharmina Manandhar
Southern Maryland Online, October 29, 2009
States Permitted to Worsen But Not Improve Healthcare?
By David Swanson
AfterDowningStreet.org, October 27, 2009
Senate hopeful withdraws support of healthcare, trade bills
By Ian Swanson and Aaron Blake
The Hill, October 22, 2009
Pennsylvania First in the Nation for Single Payer?
By SinglePayerAction.org
October 18, 2009
Group Pickets Health Care Provider in 9-city Protest
By News Channel 8
October 15, 2009
The Lesson of State Health-Care Reforms
By Peter Suderman
The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2009
Docs as Props
By SinglePayerAction.org
October 5, 2009
The Single-Payer Alternative
By Ashley Smith
Dissident Voice, September 30, 2009
Price of care: Woman's insurance costs soar after surgery
By James Heffernan
Northern Virginia Daily, September 29, 2009
Doctors walk for health care
By Sean Rose
Courier Journal, September 23, 2009
Single Payer Activists Build Memorial on National Mall
By Russell Mokhiber
SinglePayerAction.org, September 22, 2009
Medicare for All? 'Crazy,' 'Socialized' and Unlikely
By Katherine Q.Seelye
The New York Times, September 19, 2009
It's Simple: Medicare for All
By George S. McGovern
The Washington Post, September 13, 2009
The Health Insurers Have Already Won
By Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein
BusinessWeek, August 6, 2009
Rallying for "Medicare for All," Union Activists Shift Focus to States
By Chris Garlock and Mischa Gaus
Labor Notes, August 1, 2009
Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack
By David Swanson
July 23, 2009
Why we must vote on the public plan
By Rep. Anthony Weiner
Politico, July 22, 2009
Uninsured Travel from Across US for Free Healthcare from Relief Group Remote Area Medical
By Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!, July 22, 2009
Massachusetts Takes a Step Back From Health Care for All
By Abby Goodnough
The New York Times, July 15, 2009
Health Insurance Whistle-Blower Knows Where the Bodies Are Buried
By Amy Goodman
Truthdig.com, July 14, 2009
A doctor fights for a single-payer plan
By Elizabeth Strother
The Roanoke Times, June 28, 2009
The Health Care Industry vs. Health Reform
By Wendell Potter
Center for Media and Democracy, June 24, 2009
State cuts its health coverage by $115m
By Kay Lazar
The Boston Globe, June 24, 2009
The Rise of Single-Payer Health Care
By David Swanson
Truthout, June 12, 2009
Mass. Model for Health Overhaul 'Not Viable,' Expert Tells Lawmakers
By Alex Wayne
CQ Today Online News - Health, April 23, 2009
New California Single-Payer Bill Passes First Hurdle
By California Nurses Association
Press Release, April 17, 2009
Campaign for Guaranteed Healthcare for All Begins in Illinois with New Single-Payer Bill
By California Nurses Association
Press Release, March 23, 2009
Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan
By Kevin Sack
The New York Times, March 15, 2009
National Nurses Movement Applauds Loudon County Supervisors for Rejecting HCA's Broadlands Proposal
By California Nurses Association
Press Release, February 4, 2009
Single Payer Moment
By David Swanson
January 30, 2009
Uninsured left in the lurch
By Louis Llovio
Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 28, 2008