No meeting tonight, Dec. 10
December 10, 2013
Because of the snow, we have decided to cancel the face to face meeting tonight. There will be instead a conference call. Those interested should email me at macman2@aol.com for details. Walter
Dr. Gerald Friedman, Thursday, Nov. 21, 6:30 – 8:30 in Philadelphia
October 30, 2013
On November 21st, Healthcare For All Philadelphia and Healthcare 4 All PA will be hosting Gerald Friedman, Ph.D. Professor of Economics, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, to discuss single-payer healthcare in PA. Earlier this year, Friedman released an Economic Impact Study (EIS), “The Pennsylvania Healthcare Plan: Impact and Implementation”, which discussed a single-payer plan for Pennsylvania as outlined by Senator Jim Ferlo’s PA Senate Bill 400. It is essentially a statewide and improved Medicare for all system in Pennsylvania.
This event is FREE and open to the public. It will be held at William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. This single-payer system will create 100,000+ jobs and provide universal coverage for all citizens of the Pennsylvania – all while saving the Commonwealth $17 billion annually. The presentation will be followed with a Q&A session with the audience.
For more information on Health Care for All Philadelphia, the Economic Impact Study, or how to get involved, please comment below.
Single payer is alive and well
September 18, 2013
The Huffington Post just published an article about Health Care for All Pennsylvania.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-bergthold/single-payer—alive-and_b_3938385.html
The Drive for Universal Healthcare (DUH) Road Tour in Philadelphia, Sept. 7 and 8!
September 4, 2013
The bus arrives in Philly this Saturday and Sunday. Please come meet Laurie, Terry, Bob and Sue. Walter
Sat September 7, 2013 The Drive For Universal Healthcare (DUH) Road Tour Starting in Mass with many stops along the way and appearing inPhiladelphia September 7, 2013. We will be sponsoring a viewing of the film
‘The Healthcare Movie.” at
Media Mobilizing Project
4233 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pa.
7:00pm. 10:00pm
7:00 Walter Tsou MC
Introductions & Welcome
Announcements HCAP Who we are – Literature
7:15 Musician Bob Wickline entertainment
Medicare songs
7:30pm The Healthcare Movie
Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland
8:35pm Laurie Simone & Terry Sterrenberg Documentary Producer/Directors
Sue Saltmarsh Organizer of DUH Roar Tour
Q & A. Discussion of video and Canadian healthcare system
Light refreshments & viewing literature table
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The following morning Sun September 8,2013 there will be a program at
Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia
1906 South Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, Pa
9:15am – 10:30am
New website for Health Care 4 All PA and SB 400
August 11, 2013
Many may not be aware that there is a state single payer bill in Penna, SB 400. It is prime sponsored by State Senator Jim Ferlo from Pittsburgh. At a recent Pittsburgh artists meeting, many artists who do not have health insurance filled an auditorium to hear Sen. Ferlo on how a state single payer system would work. Watch his two minute trailer.
The state organization supporting single payer is Health Care 4 All PA. They have a new web page with lots of information about state single payer which would save the state $17 billion in health care costs according to an economic impact study by Dr. Gerald Friedman, a Professor of Health Economics at the Univ. of Massachusetts who did an independent study. Do you think the state could use another $17 billion?? Ask the School District of Philadelphia!
The new website is www.healthcare4allpa.org. We need your support if you want to really fix our broken health care system.
Walter
Happy 48th Birthday Medicare
August 9, 2013
July 30 was the 48th anniversary of Medicare, the most successful and popular health program in America. It is based on the model of single payer financing and private health care delivery. A bill that would extend the principle of Medicare to everyone in America is HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare Act.
On July 30, 4 constituents brought a Medicare birthday cake and visited Congressman Bob Brady’s district office to ask him to sign on to HR 676. After talking with his health aide and after some conversation, Congressman Brady decided to sign on to HR 676. We are grateful to the health activists who brought the cake and made the request!!
On July 30, 4 of us visited Congressman Chaka Fattah’s office and also brought a cake. We made the same request of his health aide and treated the staff to cake. Later this week, we are told, Congressman Fattah will also decide if he should support HR 676. If you live in his district, you can call his Washington DC office 202.225.4001 and ask for Brendon Cheney and ask him to tell Fattah to sign up for HR 676.
Date Change: Next general meeting
July 10, 2013
Because of vacation schedules, we are changing the August meeting to Tuesday, August 6, 2013 from 7-9 PM. It will meet at the Business and Industry Building, Room C3-13, 18th and Callowhill Street, Community College of Philadelphia. The August 13 meeting is cancelled.
The Left Forum in NYC
June 7, 2013
The Left Forum is the largest gathering of progressive thought on the East Coast. Over 1,000 participants and speakers on every possible topic, including single payer. Three of us from Health Care for All PA will be speaking on Saturday, June 8 if you are in NYC.
What: The Political-Industrial Complex: How America’s Corporate-Political Axis Destroys Democracy and Enriches the Few
Where: Left Forum | Department of Sociology | CUNY Graduate Center | 365 Fifth Avenue | New York, NY 10016
Session
Room
Time
Session 2
W622
Sat 12:00pm – 01:40pm
Panel Proposal Information
Panel Year:
2013
Panel Year:
2013
Abstract:
America’s combination of actor-enabler, ‘bully-wimp’ forces – Wall Street, Industrial, Media, and Political institutions and individuals – undermines and destroys progressive democratic, economic, social, educational, and environmental developments. Only by understanding the exploitative and coercive effects of this predatory-passive relationship, can community-minded Americans and non-Americans reverse the global degradation brought on by the ‘Political-Industrial Complex.’ This panel will identify, describe, and seek to solve America’s corporate-dominated, political-industrial marriage of career politicians, media moguls, global industrialists, and Wall Street hedge funders. One panelist will explore and analyze the merger of media-finance-political interests; the second will examine the intersection of corporate-finance-politics; the third will diagnose the medical-finance-political connection; the fourth will dissect the “two-party” politician-consultant-finance relationship. In each case, the panelists will propose solutions on how to break up and reverse the Political-Industrial Complex.
Chair:
Name: Chuck Pennacchio
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Speakers:
Name: Jerry Policoff
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Name: Walter Tsou, MD, MPH
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Name: Julian Palmer
Medicare 48th Birthday
June 7, 2013
At the end of July, Medicare will celebrate its 48th birthday. It is the most successful health program in US history. Unfortunately, rather than build on its success, the Obamacare plan moves us in the opposite direction, mandating that all of us must purchase private health insurance.
How should we celebrate Medicare’s birthday in Philadelphia? You can send you comments to this post.
Do No Harm movie on Jan. 8
January 6, 2013
At our monthly meeting at the Community College of Philadelphia, Jan 8, 7 PM, room C3-13, we will show a different movie called Do No Harm. It is about a Georgia physician who blows the whistle on a hospital and what happens to him. It is a true story. Don’t miss it.
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