Welcome to Vancouver Health Care Now!
This website is an educational resource and a witness to history.
SINGLE-PAYER is how most modern countries provide their citizens with health insurance. The name comes from the fact that doctors and hospitals are paid by one organization, a single payer. By having only one payer you can simplify the health care system enormously.
Vancouver Health Care Now believes in a
Healthy Community and a Healthy Nation
so we think it is important that you know about
Single-Payer Health Insurance
*Everybody in *nobody out
*choose your own doctor and specialist
*no deductibles *no co-payments
*never lose your insurance, even if you
change jobs, lose your job, or move
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News Briefs:
December 14, 2011
September 28, 2011
New study by Kaiser Family Foundation reveals
Maybe there is something we don't understand about the new law.
Will someone please explain again how the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act makes health care affordable?
September 14, 2011
Everything you ever wanted to know about "ObamaCare"
Wikipedia article describing the current health care law.
(Useful Wikipedia article -- the neutrality of the article is not disputed)
March 23, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law (along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010) is a product of the health care reform agenda of the 111th United States Congress and the Obama administration.
What Did We Get? Where Are We? Where Do We Go Now?
Analysis by Kevin Zeese of Prosperity Agenda (Web)
March 21, 2010
March 19, 2010
January 9, 2010
December 24, 2009
US Senate Passes Flawed Healthcare "Reform" Bill.
Straight Party Line vote: 40 votes NO by Republicans and
60 votes YES by Democrats.
The Bill is praised by the big Health Insurance companies that stand to make Billions, and condemned as a sell-out by progressives. The US Senate succeeds in proving that it is controlled by the Pharmacy and Health Insurance Corporations and their army of lobbyists.
The Bill now goes to a House-Senate Conference Committee.
November 13, 2009
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discusses where we are today in the effort to achieve meaningful and significant health care reform in Congress. See the short YouTube clip. (5:04)
August 5, 2009
(Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, makes a committment).
Sept 17, 2009
Sept 4, 2009
Sept 9, 2009
Sept 21, 2009
Sept 15, 2009
Insurance Premiums Still Rising Faster Than Inflation and Wages
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"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare
is the most shocking and inhumane."
--- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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U.S. HealthCare Crisis Facts
The United States is the ONLY modern industrial nation that does not guarantee HealthCare for its people as a Fundamental Human Right.
Mathematically our infant mortality is reported as 6.3 deaths before the age of 1, per 1000 live births. The shocking truth in terms of actual deaths is over 25,000 babies die before the age of 1 in the US each year).
* 37th = Our rank in Health Care Fairness out of 191 member countries of the World Health Organization.
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Confused?
Compare the Report Card Grades of the Public Option versus the Single Payer Bill in the 109th Congress.
easy to understand. (5:13)
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To get a detailed understanding of issues,
PBS May 22, 2009, (32:42)
health care analysts discuss health care reform.
PBS July 24, 2009, (29:30)
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August 16, 2009 -- A Free Healthcare clinic was held in Los Angeles by Remote Area Medical. Thousands of people lined up early in the morning or slept in their cars overnight in hope of receiving medical care. Earlier, a similar free health care event was conducted in Virginia.
See more details below.
Free healthcare provided by Remote Area Medical in Virginia
(partial transcript from Amy Goodman show July 22, 2009)
AMY GOODMAN: "As debate continues in Washington over healthcare
reform, thousands of Americans in neighboring Virginia are preparing
to line up this weekend to receive free healthcare provided by a group
known as, Remote Area Medical. ... "
To read the entire transcript or watch the streaming video click here
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We are a nation in crisis;
a healthcare crisis!
We can meet this and other crises by becoming an empowered community through sharing, caring, educating and co-creating our future together!
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HealthCare-NOW (HCN) is a national education and advocacy organization that has joined forces with a coalition of organizations across America addressing our present day HealthCare/Health Insurance Crisis.
Vancouver Health Care NOW (VHCN) is part of this broad nationwide coalition organized under the National HealthCare-Now (HCN) Campaign!
We see HealthCare as a human right, and not as a privilege based on ability to pay.
HCN says a Single Payer System is comprehensive healthcare e covering all Americans and is the most cost effective! Donna Smith of the Calif. Nurses Assoc. (CNA)explains the importance of the Single Payer System. CNA is among the first unions to support Single Payer.
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We see Health Care as a Human Right, not a privilege based on ability to pay. Health care is not a commodity for sale!
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Article 25 is the legal foundation for Health Care as a fundamental Human Right in International Law.
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Here are some ways YOU can Help!
Volunteer
*Participate and help plan local community actions
*Learn in depth facts about the healthcare crisis
*Learn exactly what a Single-Payer system is
*Ask Questions *Be informed *Take Action
Help spread the word
We envision people at an information table at the Farmer's Market, people going door to door, people writing letters, people calling their elected representatives and people just getting creative about informing our community. Talk to others about these things.
with friends, family or sponsor a film night at your church or organization... Let us know details via our Contact Us page.
Check out our Resources page for some informative articles and useful web resources.
We are Vancouverhealthcarenow.org
We are a small ad-hoc grass-roots group of concerned citizens working as volunteers to provide accurate information and education regarding single payer national health insurance reform in the United States of America. Come join us.
