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Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 9 – Medical Apartheid

By Marilyn Clement

Among the myriad sober and celebratory events of all kinds during Black History Month, medical historian, Harriet Washington, will be recounting the disgraceful use of the bodies of people of African descent for medical experimentation. She is the author of a newly released authoritative book, “Medical Apartheid,” spelling out some of this history in horrific…

Among the myriad sober and celebratory events of all kinds during Black History Month, medical historian, Harriet Washington, will be recounting the disgraceful use of the…

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Our Healthcare System – Based on Avoiding Sick People

By Marilyn Clement

The President’s State of the Union offered us “more of the same” in both of the voters’ highest priority issues in the November elections– ending the war and getting national healthcare. Think about the manipulations of language that the Bush administration is using to encourage both policies – the Iraq war policy and the market-based…

The President’s State of the Union offered us “more of the same” in both of the voters’ highest priority issues in the November elections– ending the…

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Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 6 – A Revolution of Values

By Marilyn Clement

For almost 40 years now, people have talked about the King legacy, sometimes coming to radically different conclusions. One would hope that, this week as we continue to read about and reflect on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., there will be continuing reflection and support for two of his basic commitments – stopping…

For almost 40 years now, people have talked about the King legacy, sometimes coming to radically different conclusions. One would hope that, this week as we…

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Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 3 – Healthcare, Not Warfare

By Marilyn Clement

Healthcare, Not Warfare — How often we have shouted these words or prayed or whispered them in the past. And how fervently we are hoping for some significant change in the Congress and in the heart of this nation. More importantly, how hard are we working to get this change? Now, during the season of…

Healthcare, Not Warfare -- How often we have shouted these words or prayed or whispered them in the past. And how fervently we are hoping for…

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Single-Payer Healthcare – Part 1

By Marilyn Clement

After the election, November 2006 The voters have spoken. They want healthcare now. They expect Congress to move quickly to fix the healthcare system in the United States. And they want something like a single-payer system, a plan where everybody gets the healthcare they need and where all of us pay into it on a…

After the election, November 2006 The voters have spoken. They want healthcare now. They expect Congress to move quickly to fix the healthcare system in the…

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A Strategy For Seeking A National Single-Payer Healthcare System

By Marilyn Clement

“The Time is Now.” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting, November 12, 2006, in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16 states joined in thinking about how to push forward for a single-payer national healthcare system in the United States in a marathon 10-hour strategy session. Healthcare-NOW is a bottom…

“The Time is Now.” said Congressman John Conyers to the Healthcare-NOW national strategy meeting, November 12, 2006, in Chicago. Conyers and 60 Healthcare-NOW organizers from 16…

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