CNN/YouTube: Campaign financing vs Smart Healthcare for all

The insurance industry takes large profits and creates large overheads that impose a 31% excess cost on those covered. It also leaves more than 40 million uncovered. My question is whether the candidate is taking campaign donations from the industry, and if so whether this will oblige them to protect the status quo - a broken health care system.

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Kucinich health care plan

Dennis Kucinich smacks Democratic front-runners for their plans which continue for-profit health care.

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The Lemon

Filmmaker Stuart Browning demonstrates how single-payer health care systems have a lot in common with the failed economic systems of Soviet-era eastern Europe.

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Two Women

Set in Ontario, Canada, this powerful short film serves as a cautionary lesson about a politicized health care system where politicians and bureaucrats determine medical priorities while doctors and patients are at the mercy of arbitrary rationing decisions.

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Uninsured In America

Filmmaker Stuart Browning examines the conventional wisdom that 45 million Americans do not have health insurance and consequently do not have access to health care.

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ACT UP for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Out-FM Producer John Riley interviews ACT UP member Eric Sawyer and Healthcare NOW national organizer Ajamu Sankofa on the March 29, 2007 March on the Federal Building and Wall Street for Single Payer National Healthcare.

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ACT UP for Single-Payer National Health Insurance

Every industrialized nation in the world except the United States has national healthcare. Nearly 50 million people have no health insurance, and millions that do, have lousy coverage forcing some to choose between food and medicine. Healthcare is a right, but to get it we must fight for it. Join ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power on its 20th Anniversary, to March on Wall Street demanding REAL Universal National Healthcare and drug price controls. Assemble near the Federal Building at Broadway and Worth Streets in Manhattan on Thursday March 29th. Gather at 11:30, permitted march kicks-off at noon. For information call 212-966-4873 or go to www.actupny.org.

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