Showing posts with label Socialized Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socialized Health Care. Show all posts

March 29, 2012

My take on the Affordable Care Act

So now that the Affordable Care Act is being discussed by the Supreme Court, these videos from 2009 are relevant again.

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December 20, 2010

For healthcare, the US is made of four countries.

In the USA we have four different countries for healthcare purposes.
If you are in the military, you live in England.
If you are over 65, you live in Canada.
If you are insured by your employer, you live in Germany.
If you have no insurance, you live in Afghanistan.

From TR Reid's talk at the Commonwealth Club of California:


WATCH THE WHOLE THING: TR Reid, the Healing of America on Fora.tv

August 18, 2009

Citizens lobby for HR 676 in Washington DC



If you watch the mainstream press, you will hear that a single-payer health care plan will not be seriously considered by lawmakers crafting reform of the US health care system. Advocates of HR 676, the single-payer health care plan in the House of Representatives, beg to differ. This video follows their efforts at a rally in Upper Senate Park.

July 21, 2009

July 18th Healthcare Rally in Portland, ME



League of Young Voters, SEIU, UVAW, Maine People's Alliance, and other organizers held a rally and march in Portland Maine on July 18th in support of health care reform.

Hundreds of people from all across the state were in attendance, in what was described by the press as the largest rally yet on the issue of healthcare.