When Uncle Con starts yelling about “socialized medicine,” you can tell him, in all seriousness, that we’re already two-thirds there. From here, the only question remaining is how we’re going to make sure we’re getting the most for the money we’re already spending.

Only about a third of the country is still dependent on the “dominant” paradigm—private plans paid for by non-government employers. Everybody else in the country—over 200 million of us—gets most or all of their health care via some form of government-subsidized system.

Government-Funded Health Care? Were Already Two-Thirds There | OurFuture.org

We must act now–together–to get quality, affordable health care for everyone.

Click here to join the Health Care for America Now campaign

Campaign for America’s Future has joined with other groups to forge a new coalition effort to solve the health care crisis in America. Health Care for America Now, a massive national grassroots campaign launching today, will organize millions of people to win a guarantee of quality, affordable health care we all can count on.

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Elizabeth Edwards: ‘Most Preventable Cause Of Unnecessary Suffering’ Is Lack Of Health Insurance | Health and Wellness | AlterNet

Conservatives love to crow that the United States has “the best health care in the world.” Yet these same conservatives overlook the fact that 47 million Americans lack any health insurance at all, leaving them shut out of access to this world-class health care.

47 Million Americans now have no heath care coverage and twice as many people died in the US in 2006 from this lack of coverage than by homicide.  Find out your state’s numbers:Dying for Coverage

Criminal Health Care: My Experience in Insurance Company Hell | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
With our great ingenuity, a better, more humane system is not out of reach. Health care should not be subject to the whims of profit-hungry corporations. It must be recognized as a universal human right. To put people through such tumultuous trials for a basic necessity is criminal. Life is difficult enough.

AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: New Health Care Ad: Every American Deserves CheneyCare

Last month, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee ran ads in Iowa newspapers advocating for a single-payer health-care bill, highlighting the fact Vice President Dick Cheney has benefited from his government-provided coverage. “If he were anyone else, he’d probably be dead by now” due to his long history of health problems, claimed the ad.

In the group’s newest round of ads, which ran “in eight New Hampshire papers” on Friday and will go “national” today, they dub a new name for “guaranteed, publicly-funded health care for all Americans”: CheneyCare.

The ad “asks readers to go to CheneyCare.org and sign a petition in support of CheneyCare for all Americans”.