The past weeks events regarding the proposed ACA (or Obamacare) repeal and replacement must be causing some amusement among Barack Obama and his minions.  The question remains: Where do we go from here?The Real Clear Politics Average of public opinion polls has shown a steady increase in support for the ACA since the November election.  […]

One way of keeping the Momentum from the primary going is to advocate for the causes that we care about. One of our Single payer healthcare which covers everyone while controlling costs and is used in almost every industrialized country except our own. Healthcare 4 All PA is an organization advocating for a Single Payer […]

In early 2014 I participated in a radio discussion on the need for comprehensive single payer healthcare reform on WIUP FM radio in Indiana, PA.  Eric Barker of the Center for Community Growth in Indiana, PA hosted the program.  I was on a panel with fellow Health Care for All PA Will Ferrell (not the […]

This post is a Cross-Post with healthcare4allPA.org.   The Census Bureau has released the 2013 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates for all counties and states in the US. The trend for the Pennsylvania and the US from 2006-2013 can be seen above. The US rate has decreased from a high of 17.7% in 2010 to 16.8% […]

Views of the ACA Now Reps Dems Inds Working well, keep as is 6% 1% 14% 5% Good things, but changes needed 60% 41% 73% 61% Needs to be repealed entirely 32% 56% 13% 32% In the five years since it’s passage, polling on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still remarkably consistent. The above […]

My organization, Healthcare for all PA is in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign to raise finds for advocacy on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.  With our economic impact study we are prepared to push to make Single Payer a reality in Pennsylvania.  We need your help to make this a reality.  You can follow us […]

The Census Bureau has come out with estimates from the American Community Survey of national and state level uninsured rates for 2013. County level estimates are due out in early 2015. Pennsylvania’s rate has decreased from 12.0% in 2012 to 9.7% in 2013 (when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) came into effect in October of […]

Lost in the coverage of the Senate torture report and the demonstrations on the deaths Mike Brown and Eric Garner (which are important stories for a change) was the congressional testimony of MIT economist Jonathan Gruber.  He was caught on tape saying that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare or ACA) had to be sold […]

  The Keystone Research Center has released a report detailing how the income share for Pennsylvania’s middle class has shrunk since 1978 in each county. The full text of their press release is below. New Census data on the uninsured for Pennsylvania and it’s counties for 2013 will be out tomorrow to give us a […]

I have been busy with teaching and working so it’s been harder to find time to blog but I have been using examples from the blog to teach with.  My organization, Healthcare for all PA is circulating an online petition.  You can sign it here.   http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/singlepayer Signing closes on Tuesday 9/9.