health reform

Missouri state capital rallies for health care reform

September 3, 2009 By Tony Pecinovsky

JEFFERSON CITY, MO – “I was too expensive, so they got rid of me,” Robert Green told hundreds of rural Missourians who rallied for health care reform here on the Capital steps September 2.

Florida rally demands health care reform now

September 1, 2009 By Thomas Adriaan Hellinger

ORLANDO – Over 1,000 residents from throughout Florida met last Saturday to demonstrate widespread outrage at the lack of quality, affordable health care. The assembled crowd filled a gymnasium adjacent to the O-Rena (officially the Amway...

Obama needs a little help from his friends

September 1, 2009 By Sam Webb

I read too many analysts these days that say that the passage of real health care reform rests largely on President Obama’s shoulders.

Uninsured rate in Houston among highest in the nation

August 31, 2009 By James Thompson

HOUSTON – A front page article in the 8/30/09 edition of the Houston Chronicle notes that Houston is among the worst in the nation in terms of uninsured residents. This great, culturally diverse city which is...

Once again, Albuquerque shouts ‘Health care now!’

August 31, 2009 By Rose Shaw

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As a huge Organizing for America bus rolled into the Hispanic Cultural Center here on the evening of Aug. 27, it was greeted by the shouts of nearly 1,000 people: “Health Care Now!”