Welcome to a Web page devoted to universal health care -
Single-Payer.

     Ah Friend! could you and I with Him Conspire
     To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
     Would we not shatter it to bits--and then
     Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
     ----      From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Even though I would like the world to be a really kind hearted place, I have no right to "shatter it to bits" and "Re-mould it", even if I could, which obviously I can't. However, many polls have shown that there are large majorities of people that support single-payer health care and with their help we could get this universal health care system installed here and our country would be a much better place.

Please join with your friends and neighbors to help make this happen.

When enough americans agitate for single-payer
It will happen here!

I hope that those who visit this website are participating in building a movement for single-payer. If you are not I hope you will begin by joining with an organization near you, or if one doesn't exist please help to form one. Try to join, or form, a group with a single focus "universal health care" you can easily get off course by having a multiplicity of goals.

Visit other websites relating to single-payer, from here, their addresses are shown should you wish to record them.

--- The official Webpage for the (PNHP) Physicians for a National Health Program is: www.pnhp.org
--- A web page prepared by the students at UW-Madison (it is a primer on health care in general, with emphasis on single-payer. These students are members of PNHP. The address is: http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/pnhp/pnhp.html
--- Health Care for All - Oregon completed a ballot initiative and collected signatures to get it on the 2002 ballot but were unable to get the voters support to get it passed. . click here to go to their website. Record the following address for a direct connection to the webpage containing the that initiative: http://www.healthcareforalloregon.org
---You can get to the Labor Party's Resolution for for Just Healthcare, or you can go directly there by going to website http://www.igc.apc.org/lpa/documents/lpd_healthcare.html

There are a few files which you can review and get from this site. Most have been posted to previous single-payer listservs. Anyone wanting to arm themselves with honest information about universal single-payer health care could begin here.
+++ Some information on Bob LeBow's book "Health Care in Meltdown." The best book I have ever read on the sad state of health care in America and what we should do about it.
+++ Gerry Cavanaugh's "Why Doesn't America Have Universal Comprehensive Health Care??".
+++ A very important book on universal health care "Bleeding the Patient"
+++ Ida Hellander's "Rosa Revisited".
+++ Invitation to join - list 1-payer.
+++ Testimony to the Congressional Black Caucus... May 1, 2001, Marcia Angell, M.D.
+++ Look who speaks out for single-payer.
+++ Answers to frequently asked questions about single-payer.
+++ About Profit Fever" a book by Charles Andrew.
+++ Action for Universal Care.
+++ WHAT HAPPENED TO HEALTH CARE REFORM?
+++ Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending - A PNHP Proposal.
+++ Health Care Fast Facts.
+++ Structure Health Care for Democracy.
+++ Unite to obtain Universal Health Care.
+++ More on groundswell.
+++ Advantages and Disadvantages of Single-payer.
+++ Health Care Information Source List.
+++ Canadian medical refugees, the Myth.

Created by Jim Ramsell, 1220 Jacobs Dr., Apt 40. Eugene, OR, 97402.
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FILE: Onepayer.html Rev. 09/13/2004