Portland, OR has passed a very progressive bill supporting single-payer, and it calls for passage of HR676 – the National Health Care Act (Single-payer) sponsored by Representative John Conyers.

The Mad As Hell Doctors’ odyssey into the politics of health care reform ended Wednesday with a modest rally in Washington, D.C., and a resolve to continue the quest for single-payer medical coverage.

Six Oregon physicians left Portland Sept. 8 in a custom-painted Winnebago on a cross-country roadshow aimed at building support for a government-sponsored health plan that would cover all Americans in a single giant risk pool.

“Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone a government-administered health insurance plan like Medicare that would compete with private health insurance plans?”

65% percent of respondents said yes.

Surprising? Unscientific online poll says Helenians wants single-payer

This Bloomberg article sets the record straight on U.S. VS Canadian health care. Despite rhetoric to the contrary, Canadian public healthcare is quite good by most indicators and better than the U.S. by pretty much all indicators.

Former Prime Minister defends Canadian universal healthcare

when placed together, these two facts tell a lot about the health insurance system as a model for providing healthcare

It is interesting to watch how share prices vary with every change and tweak in the health care reform debate. There is a lot of money at stake in how it all plays out.

The positioning of the Obama Administration on health reform has always been wishy-washy and confusing at best. If he had the will or wherewithal to have simply and courageously called for a single-payer system, his position would have been clear, and any political wrangling would have taken place with single-payer, nationalized health care as, at minimum, a possible option to be debated.