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  • Bill Moyer's Journal / Wendell Potter / PBS Interview
    With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform.
  • Health Insurance Racket - video
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    CIGNAs Edward Hanway spends his holidays in a $13 million beach house in New Jersey. Meanwhile, regular Americans are routinely denied coverage for the care they need when they need it most. ....."
  • Friday, July 24, 2009 - Bill Moyer's Journal
    • Trudy Lieberman, covers health care reform for the Columbia Journalism Review and directs the health and medicine reporting program at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.
       
    • Marcia Angell, physician, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard University Medical School and the first woman Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine

  • Friday, July 10, 2009 - Bill Moyer's Journal
    Interview with former Cigna Insurance Communications Director - Wendell Potter
  • Health Care Reform 101
    Professor Tom Russell, VP of Health Care For All Colorado discusses single payer, the public option, and how the US is not proposing socialized care in a Fireside Productions 5 minute video.
  • 71 Percent of Voters Want The Health Care System Changed
    "A robust majority - 71 percent - of registered voters said they wanted the system changed or rebuilt. That sentiment was shared across political parties, with 82 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of non-partisans and 55 percent of Republicans supporting a major overhaul." - SF Gate Article (California)
  • May 13, 2009 -  Cancer Victim Rips Hypocrites in Congress over Single Payer Issue
    Adrienne Campbell of Dearborn, MI, was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 22. Her insurer denied coverage for a highly suspect legal reason. Ms. Campbell went $8,000 in debt to cover the cost of her treatment. At age 26, and uninsured, she developed ovarian cancer. Currently, at age 27, shes over $10,000 in debt, but, mercifully, cancer free.
  • May 12, 2009 - Advocates of single-payer universal healthcare—the system favored by most Americans—continue to protest their exclusion from discussions on healthcare reform. On Tuesday, five doctors, nurses and single-payer advocates were arrested at a Senate Finance Committee hearing, bringing the total number of arrests in less than a week to thirteen. We speak with two of those arrested: Single Payer Action founder Russell Mokhiber and Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program.
    View Democracy Now May 13, 2009 show about the December 12th Senator Baucus Hearings.
     
  • May 8, 2009 - Colorado State of Mind - Colorado Health Care Update with host host Cynthia Hessin:

    • Rep. John Kefalas (D-Larimer)
    • T.R. Reid, author and former Washington Post correspondent
    • Steve ErkenBrack, president of Rocky Mountain Health Plans
    • Jay Want, M.D., Physician Health Partners

  • May 5, 2009 - Real News:  May 5 Meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, Chaired by Sen. Max Baucus, excludes representation of Single Payer Health Care in the Committee's consideration of health care reform, while for-profit insurances are heavily represented.
  • Choice of provider, choice of job and HB1273 - video
    The Colorado Guaranteed Health Care Act will expand personal choice by allowing Coloradans to choose to leave their job without losing their health insurance and by giving everyone a choice of their health care providers.
  • Can US Achieve Meaningful Healthcare Reform Within For-Profit System?
    DemocracyNow Program - February 27, 2009 - "The Obama administration says its repeal of Bush-era tax cuts for wealthier Americans will help pay for a $634 billion reserve fund for what it calls its top fiscal priority: healthcare reform. But can the US achieve real healthcare reform without adopting single-payer? We host a debate between Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program and Len Nichols of the New America Foundation"
  • Tom Russell on the Jay Marvin Show - February 12, 2009
    "Our special in studio guest is Professor Thomas Russell, Vice President of Health Care for All Colorado (HCAC). HCAC has worked with State Representative John Kefalas of Fort Collins and State Senator Joyce Foster of Denver to craft legislation that will lead to health care for every Colorado resident while reducing to total costs of health care. The bill now has an impressive list of co-sponsors in both chambers of the Colorado legislature. Tom Russell, is an attorney and a professor at the DU Law School. www.healthcareforallcolorado.org We also had Dr Irene Aguilar call in. She is President at HCAC."{
  • T.R. ReidFront Line - Sick Around The World - April 15, 2008
    "In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver health care, and what the United States might learn from their successes and their failures."
  • Health, Money and Fear - the movie
    After you click on the link above, click on chapters and then the chapters section names are links to play the Flash video.  On the website, it is easy to miss how to play the movie.
  • Health Care Reform with Special Guest T.R. Reid - April 11, 2008
    Other guests include Elinor Christiansen, MD, president of the Health Care For All Colorado Foundation and a past president of Health Care For All Colorado; Joan Henneberry of the state Department of Health Care Policy and Financing; and Steve Summer of the Colorado Hospital Association. Rocky Mountain PBS/Colorado State of Mind
  • Barry Keene, KGNU Radio, 8/20/2007
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  • Elinor ChristiansenDr. Elinor Christiansn - Waiting Lists and Universal Health Care
    Dr. Elinor Christansen, former President of the American Medical Women's Association and past president of Health Care For All Colorado, rebuts the argument that a national health program would result in longer wait times for Americans in need of medical care at the Tattered Cover Bookstore in 2007.

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