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A Mad As Hell Doctor's Final Report

Despite many thousands of e-mails and phone calls the White House did not invite us in.

November 19, 2009 -- Let me start back at the tour itself. I’ve reviewed the compendium of the individual TV appearances we made in local venues from Seattle to Washington. The amount of dust we kicked up—over a million citings on Google, many dozens of radio and TV appearances and interviews and print media articles—is not to be sneezed at. We made a splash all across the US. Read More >>

Police Arrest Twelve at Regence

Part of 54 arrests in nine states, Portland demonstrators chose Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield

October 15, 2009 -- Police arrested 12 people today for trespassing outside the Portland headquarters for Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. The acts of civil disobedience were met by similar direct actions in nine cities across the country organized by Healthcare Now and the Center for the Working Poor. Read More >>

Congressman Kucinich Caps Mad As Hell Doctors Tour

They're mad as hell and they came from Oregon

WASHINGTON DC, October 3, 2009 – Oregon’s homegrown Mad As Hell Doctors were met by Rep. Dennis Kucinich in Washington DC on the final days of their cross-country media blitz. Read More >>

Hundreds Heckle for Insurance Reform in Downtown Portland

Protestors gather at Regence headquarters as part of national MoveOn.org action

September 22, 2009 -- More than 400 people gathered in the courtyard beneath Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon headquarters in downtown Portland on Tuesday in support of comprehensive healthcare reform. Read More >>

'Mad As Hell Doctors' Launch National Tour for Single-Payer

A group of doctors take the road in a Winnebago to say anything short of single-payer is nothing at all

September 9, 2009 -- A group of physicians dubbed Mad As Hell Doctors kicked off a 28-city tour in Portland on Tuesday. They’ll be traveling in a Winnebago across the country holding press events along the way until reaching Washington DC on September 30. The group supports a single-payer bill in Congress, HR 676. Read More >>

Single Payer Advocates Pressure Wyden

Sen. Ron Wyden is part of a stonewalling group of Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee who refuse to acknowledge public polls in favor of single payer and a public option

June 24, 2009 -- Close to 100 people rallied for single payer healthcare today on the steps of the Federal Building in downtown Portland to deliver Sen. Ron Wyden a message: They want change, not compromise. Read More >>

Single Payer Healthcare Only Way to Control Costs

A national reimbursement system can realign the delivery of healthcare services from one of maximizing profit to one in which we maximize health

June 10, 2009 -- Our current healthcare system is a mess for both those who carry health insurance and those without. Only a single payer national health insurance program that provides public financing for privately delivered healthcare services can clean up this mess and provide all Americans access to needed medical services regardless of ability to pay. Read More >>

Politics Aside, Would a Public Option Work?

The fight for a public health plan option may have lost sight of what it really means

June 5, 2009 -- As Congress prepares its healthcare reform package, a debate looms over whether it should include a “public option” to compete with private plans and, presumably, keep them honest. Since a universal public health plan -- single payer—challenges the whole role of private insurance, the public option was supposed to be seen by the health insurance industry as a “lesser evil” and therefore elicit less resistance.

Financing Healthcare from Around the World

Think of a national Kaiser Permanente with a delightful foreign accent

May 21, 2009 -- Our healthcare system is morbidly obese. We outspend by at least two-to-one every other comparable country and still manage to underperform. The industry’s latest promise to trim an amount equal to less than 10% of current annual spending each year for the next ten years barely nudges that ratio. Our system serves as the world’s model for what not to do. Read More >>

Week in Review from Capitol Hill

Protesters arrested, millions slung on ads and lawmakers hash it out

May 15, 2009 -- It’s been a week of heated healthcare debate on Capitol Hill dotted with multiple arrests of single-payer protesters who disrupted Congressional hearings. Taking flak was Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), who found himself one of five Democrats targetted by Health Care for America Now! a campaign that strongly supports a public health plan option.

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