President Obama will speak at the Target Center in Minneapolis tomorrow, Saturday, September 12 at 9 a.m. Single payer activists will be rallying outside the Target Center to demand – single payer now!
This group of doctors is traveling across the country to raise awareness about single-payer health care. Their journey will begin on September 8th and they will be in the Twin Cities on September 16th. According to their website;
On September 8, 2009 a group of dedicated Oregon physicians will take the message of Universal Health Care [...]
Representative Raul Grijalva, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus talks with Democracy Now about his fellow Democrats demand for a public option. The Progressive Caucus which consists of 81 Congresspeople and Senators wrote a letter to the Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius, criticizing her for saying public option is not a central element to comprehensive reform. Congressional Progressive Caucus says they won’t sign on to a plan that doesn’t include a public option.
Consumer advocate and perpetual Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. He talks about the deal the Obama administration struck with the pharmaceutical companies and on his advocacy for single payer, medicare for all heath care.
Single-payer health care is absent from the debate on the major news networks.
Senator Max Baucus of Montana, who as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has made health care reform his top priority, has decided to meet with single-payer health care advocates.
The Mid America CropLife Association has recently sent Michelle Obama a letter encouraging her to use “crop protection products”, i.e chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides on her newly planted organic garden.
The Pentagon reported last month that the rate of suicides among US troops has reached an all-time high since record-keeping began three decades ago. At least 128 and potentially as many as 143 soldiers from the United States Army took their own lives last year.
According to a study which came out last week 1/3 of sampled products with High Fructose Corn Syrup (which is a lot of products) contains high levels of MERCURY.
Water is important. We all know this. Everybody. Water is so essential to life that a visitor to our planet might assume that us humans are all water experts. But what do we really know about water? How much do we need to know?