Single Women for Single Payer Healthcare: Sign the SMW Petition!

If you are a single woman, right now you are the forgotten constituent in this very important healthcare reform debate.
In previous articles, we’ve explained that single women in their twenties – pay more than men the same age.
(I guess that’s a way for our insurance companies to tell us that we’re high maintenance. That’s okay: they are [...]

Single Payer Healthcare and Single Women: Get Congress Off the Fence!

One week ago, we eagerly anticipated a crucial vote on single-payer Medicare for All ( H.R.676 ) in the House Energy & Commerce Committee, sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). But then seven BlueDogs waged a highly-publicized war against a “robust public option” and the vote was delayed for a full week.
We just learned the [...]

Single Payer Healthcare, and Single Women: It’s Now or Never

Single women are the majority in the United States. According to the latest United States Census figures, 51.5 percent of our female population is women ages 15 and over who are either single, divorced, widowed, or separated. And yet, 49% of all single women– or almost 30.8 million of them –  are uninsured.
To top it off, [...]

Single Women, Listen Up! You Have the Most to Lose in the Single Payer Healthcare Debate

Single women are the majority in the United States. According to the latest United States Census figures, 51.5 percent of our female population is women ages 15 and over who are either single, divorced, widowed, or separated. And yet, 49% of all single women– or almost 30.8 million of them –  are uninsured.
To top [...]

Yo, Joe Lieberman: Single Women Want YOUR Healthcare Plan

Joe Lieberman, the “independent” (read: up for the highest bid) senator from Connecticut, wants to make sure single women don’t have a public healthcare option.
In fact,  he’s willing to join the Republicans in a filibuster.
Despite Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s claim to have respect for this man, I make no such claims at all.
Connecticut unemployment [...]

Sheila Kuehl Makes Another Strong Argument for Universal Healthcare

One of the strongest champions the state of California has had in its arduous journey  (not yet over, unfortunately) toward Universal Healthcare is  former California State Senator Sheila Kuehl. She was Chair of the Senate Health Committee and author of the only single payer health insurance bill to pass both houses of a state legislature [...]