Hi All. It was a great concert on Saturday night with a great turnout. Mike Stout and the Human Union debuted a new song and video which can be seen above. All 221 posts from this blog have been exported into the blog on the state page which can be seen at the link below. Continue reading “The PUSH Blog is now Integrated with the State Blog”
Tag Archives: Single Payer
Healthcare is a Human Right Concert, June 7
State board member Mike Stout (pictured below) and the Human Union Band will be holding a Health Care is a Human Right concert on June 7. The press release is below with a preview of their new song. PRESS RELEASE: Legendary Rock Concert for Social Justice in Pittsburgh! Mike Stout and The Human Union inContinue reading “Healthcare is a Human Right Concert, June 7”
Press Release at the Healthcare for All PA/PUSH page
The Healthcare for All PA/ PUSH page has posted a press release from the state wide organization announcing the release of an economic impact study showing how a Single Payer healthcare system can cover everyone in Pennsylvania while controlling costs for businesses. It is reprinted below. There are many excellent posts on single payer atContinue reading “Press Release at the Healthcare for All PA/PUSH page”
New Article in The New People on Vermont & PodCamp Update
I have an article published on Vermont’s Single Payer health care law passed last year in this month’s issue of The Thomas Merton Center’s newspaper, The New People. It was adapted from a post on the PUSH blog which you can read here. The New People article can be seen on page 3 in theContinue reading “New Article in The New People on Vermont & PodCamp Update”
Uninsured and Income Gaps in the US and Pennsylvania
The Census Bureau has two estimates of the uninsured that comes out every year. One for the national and state level which is based on the Current Population Survey and the other for the State and County level which is the Small Area Health Insurance Estimates or SAHIE that I’ve written many posts about here. Continue reading “Uninsured and Income Gaps in the US and Pennsylvania”
PUSH-Healthcare for All PA SCOTUS Posts
I have been posting less on this blog lately partly because things have been heating up on the Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer/Healthcare for All PA site in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). For example our new blogger Scott Tyson, MD has posted articles by stateContinue reading “PUSH-Healthcare for All PA SCOTUS Posts”
Insult Roulette
For me the recent bruhaha over the Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke brings back memories of another one from 2010 in which Sarah Palin (who was teasing with running for the GOP Pres nod at the time) was calling for President Obama to fire then White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel called critics of theContinue reading “Insult Roulette”
PUSH: Correlating PA’s Uninsured with Sen Pat Toomey’s 2010 Vote
My new guest post on the PUSH website is now up looking at the uninsured and the 2010 PA Senate race. PUSH: Correlating PA’s Uninsured with Sen Pat Toomey’s 2010 Vote **Related Posts** Making Sense of the Pat Toomey-Joe Sestak Senate Race POLL: Dislike of healthcare law crosses party lines, 1 in 4 DemsContinue reading “PUSH: Correlating PA’s Uninsured with Sen Pat Toomey’s 2010 Vote”
PUSH: Correlating PA County % Uninsured Rates with Other County Level Measures
My new post for Pennsylvanian’s United for Single Payer Healthcare (PUSH) is up correlating the updated PA County % uninsured data with other county health and demographic data. PUSH: Correlating PA County % Uninsured Rates with Other County Level Measures
Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Healthcare
The local Pittsburgh chapter of Healthcare 4 All PA is launching it’s own site with several talented authors. The link with the first post on gender and racial differences in Pennsylvania’s uninsured can be seen here. Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Healthcare year % uninsured white MOE +/- % % uninsured black MOE +/- %Continue reading “Pennsylvanians United for Single Payer Healthcare”