The Power to Heal movie October 12, 7 – 8:30 PM
September 21, 2021
Join Health Care for All Philadelphia, Philadelphia Neighborhood Network and Weavers Way for movie night with the award winning documentary, The Power to Heal. It is a moving story of Medicare and its impact on the civil rights movement. After the movie, join Dr. David Smith, author of the book for a discussion. Sign up at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/movie-night-the-power-to-heal?
Letter to USA Today
October 12, 2018
Re: Donald Trump and Medicare for All
If you were the CEO of a company called the US Health Care System and told your Board of Directors that your system spent 40% more per capita than your competing countries, wasted $750 billion on wasteful and duplicative care, paid the highest drug prices in the world – by far, left 30 million uninsured and an equal number with deductibles that would bankrupt the average American family, and had a life expectancy for all this money that put your company in the bottom 25% of developed nations, what would the Board say? How about chuck the current business plan? Find out what the other countries are doing better than us and steal their best ideas. That is why 70% of Americans support Medicare for All. What is radical is maintaining a health system that is this complex and greedy.
Join us at the Philadelphia Town Hall on Healthcare Justice Nov. 16th!
November 10, 2017
Join Healthcare for All Philadelphia, Students for a National Health Plan, PASNAP, and many more groups for a town hall on healthcare justice this upcoming Thursday, November 16th at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (2125 Chestnut Street) from 7-9 PM.
Guest speakers Patty Eakin, President of the nurses union PASNAP and Tim Faust, a healthcare policy expert from NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Healthcare and single payer correspondent for Jacobin Magazine.
At the event, groups from across Philadelphia who support the fight for single payer will be sharing details about the strategy of their work and to discuss the potential of forming a citywide single payer coalition to fight for a City Council resolution in support of Bernie Sanders’ Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act and Pennsylvania House Bill 1688.
Healthcare for All at the First Meeting of the New 42nd Ward
October 12, 2017
On October 12th, Healthcare for All Philadelphia attended the first meeting of the 42nd Ward in Northeast Philadelphia, hosted by the newly elected leader Sharon Vaughn, to talk to members of the ward about House Bill 1688 and changes in healthcare under the Trump administration.
Healthcare for All members Kay Lasker and Barbara Johnson with Organizer Natalie Midiri and Ward Leader Sharon Vaughn at the meeting.
State Senator Art Haywood Announces Plans for a Single Payer Bill
September 28, 2017
State Senator Art Haywood (D, Montgomery/Philadelphia County) has announced plans to introduce a single payer bill into the Pennsylvania senate later in the year!
Check out this video of Senator Haywood’s announcement, including remarks from Healthcare for All’s Field Organizer, Natalie Midiri, and representatives from the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, the Pennsylvania Federation of the Brotherhood of Maintenance and Way, and the Pennsylvania Women’s March.
Healthcare for All Joins the People’s Speak Out on Healthcare
August 31, 2017
On August 31st, Healthcare for All Philadelphia participated in the People’s Speak Out on Healthcare, an event hosted by local MoveOn.org Mobilizer Steve Paul from Councilwoman Helen Gym’s office.
Local members of the ward shared their healthcare stories and concerns over rising pharmaceutical costs, expensive premiums, and changes to their coverage under the Trump administration.
Congressman Dwight Evans and State Senator Sharif discussed the political possibilities opened up by renewed interested in Medicare for All and single payer in the wake of the Sanders campaign.
Dr. Walter Tsou from Healthcare for All closed out the meeting with a presentation on why now is the time to solve the American healthcare crises with a single payer system.
Participants in the People’s Speak Out writing postcards to their state representatives urging their support for House Bill 1688 and a single payer system for Pennsylvania.
State Representative Pam DeLissio Hosts Town Hall on Single Payer
July 28, 2017
PHILADELPHIA, July 28 – State Rep. Pamela A. DeLissio, D-Montgomery/Phila., hosted over 60 citizens for her 66th Town Hall on Wednesday to discuss the concepts behind DeLissio’s legislation, H.B.1688, the Pennsylvania Health Care Plan, a Medicare for all-style single-payer plan she intends to introduce later this year.
She said the discussion was interactive and informative, as one participant later posted, “I am at a Town
“H.B. 1688, to be re-introduced shortly, is NOT government run health care,” DeLissio said. “Health care providers and health care facilities would remain in the private sector. State government would be responsible for establishing a system in which a single, public or quasi-public agency organizes the health care financing to support health care access. Cost controls (including administrative costs, pharmaceutical costs etc.), and citizens having sufficient ‘skin in the game’ are critical components of this plan.”
HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Gets 100 CoSponsors in Congress!
April 21, 2017
A record number of cosponsors of HR 676, the national single payer legislation, now numbers 100. All are Democrats. We would love to have one or two Republicans. Interestingly, in polling data, almost 40% of Republicans now support single payer and over 80% of Democrats. As Speaker Paul Ryan is about to reintroduce the American Health Care Act again, there are rumors that preexisting conditions can now be rated and premiums can be raised as much as tens of thousands of dollars. Trump who promised to give us a better plan is likely to give us something far worse. In order to get it under the 100 day “deadline”, Republicans may pass the bill without scoring from the Congressional Budget Office. A huge mistake and an insult to the American people. No score, no bill.
National Teach In for Medicare for All, April 8!!
April 7, 2017
Join the Campaign for Guaranteed Health Care, Pennsylvania Staff Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, Put People First-PA, Health Care for All Philadelphia/Pennsylvania and the PA Federation as we have a teach in on Medicare for All.
The only plan that can replace the ACA and give better care for less money is single payer, national health insurance. Please come. Bring your friends. Learn about Medicare for All. Free.
Refreshments provided.
Saturday, April 8, 2017, 2:30-4 PM
Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St, Philadelphia, PA
Rally to Defend Health Care Jan 15, 1 PM, Temple Hospital
January 10, 2017
If the ACA is repealed as currently threatened, most of the safety net hospitals like the academic medical centers will be in big trouble. Temple is just one of the major hospitals that could be devastated. The only replacement plan that could improve the impending disaster is single payer, national health insurance.
Come out on Sunday, January 15 to rally for health care, Jan. 15, 1 PM, Temple Hospital, 3401 N Broad St, Philadelphia. Join with PASNAP, Congressman Dwight Evans and others as we defend health care from disastrous cuts.
Sign Up
If you're already an email discussion group member, you can go directly to the forum here.
If you want less email, join our events email list here. We only send about one email a month to this list.
