Health Care Reform without Tears, Part 3: Private health insurance by Samuel Metz, Contributing Writer Part two of this series left readers with the unhappy prospect of an Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) failing to achieve universal access, lower costs or ...
6 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
Health care reform, part II: Will Obamacare save America from itself? By Samuel Metz, Contributing Columnist Just when despair engulfed our dysfunctional health care system, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act (also known, inappropriately as we will s ...
23 Oct 2012 - Street Roots
Making right from wrong: Oregon Youth Authority By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer In small, dormitory-like facilities across Oregon, the Oregon Youth Authority, or OYA, has direct custody of approximately 750 youth between the ages of 12 and 25, and super ...
25 Apr 2012 - Street Roots
Act Now! Support health care for all! We are encouraging readers to call their local reps to support health care for all. We think it's important to work to not only put pressure on elected officials, but to help spread the word and to help change pu ...
17 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
HEALING LESSIONS- HOW THE U.S. CAN ADOPT A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT’S FAIRER AND COST LESS From the Sept. 4 edition of Street Roots Anger and taunting in the public forum. Accusations of fascism. Rumors of proposed government death panels — rumors that opp ...
16 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
Support health care for Oregonians! Support health care for America now! Support the 10 principles put together by Health Care For America Now!- A truly inclusive and accessible health care system in which no one is left out.- A choice of a private insur ...
8 Sep 2009 - Street Roots
A single payer sing-a-long Saturday Musician Anne Feeney has organized a roadshow of singers to raise the roof on the need for universal health care What: Sing Out for Single Payer Roadshow When: 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 18 Where: SEIU Local 49 Auditoriu ...
17 Jul 2009 - Street Roots