Single-payer to be introduced on the floor of the House of Representatives
August 24, 2009
Thanks to all of your phone calls, lobby visits, faxes, emails, rallies, Medicare Birthday Parties, and the leadership of Rep. Anthony Weiner, single-payer healthcare will be debated and voted on by the US House of Representatives in September!
Call your Rep. today (866-338-1015) and tell them you support single-payer healthcare and Rep. Kucinich’s amendment to enable states to pass single-payer.
Polls consistently show that the public supports a Medicare for All system, and 59% of physicians support it.
Thanks for all of your support for single-payer healthcare. Nothing less will do!
Photos taken by Jane Dugdale at July 30, Washington DC rally
August 1, 2009
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Come protest why Single Payer is not on the Table?
July 29, 2009
Come out with your single payer signs and lets greet them.
I wanted to make you aware of a very exciting event in Philadelphia this weekend.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will be at the National Constitution Center, 6th and Arch Streets, Philadelphia at 3:00PM on Sunday for a town hall on Health Reform. Senator Specter and Congressman Fattah will also be there.
This event is free and open to the public and I would encourage you to spread the word to any interested parties. Let me know if you’re planning to attend.
Gwen Camp
Office of Senator Robert P. Casey
2000 Market Street, Suite 1870
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-405-9660
Fax: 215-405-9669
Celebrate Medicare and Lobby for Single Payer, July 30 in Washington DC
July 3, 2009
Celebrate the 44th Birthday of Medicare – our nation’s best example of a single payer plan. It is time to expand Medicare for everyone. We will be gathering in Washington DC to ask our representatives to support single payer health care and to hold a 1 PM rally.
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009
Time: 7 AM leave Philadelphia
10-11:45 AM – Lobby and visit Congressional Representatives
Lunch
1 – 3 PM – Rally at the Upper Senate Park, next to US Capitol
3-3:30 PM – Lobby and visit Congressional Representatives
3:45 PM – Leave for Philadelphia
7 PM – Arrive in Philadelphia
Join our bus to Washington by signing up here.
First come, first served. Round trip bus ticket is $30. Leaves Philadelphia at 7 AM and returns 7 PM that night.
for more information, contact Joan Martini at (215) 242 – 4057 or hcap.members@gmail.com
June 11 Rally in Harrisburg, PA for State Single Payer Bills, HB 1660 and SB 400
May 26, 2009
Join hundreds of single payer supporters across the state of Pennsylvania who support the Family and Business Health Security Act (HB 1660 and SB 400) which would create a single payer bill in the Commonwealth. All of the other plans have been band aids on a failed insurance system. We need single payer now!
Gather at the outside steps facing the river at the State Capitol in Harrisburg at 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Thursday, June 11.
Guest speakers,
Donna Smith from the California Nurses Association and fresh from her appearance on Bill Moyers Journal,
Bill George, President, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO,
Chuck Pennachio, Executive Director, Health Care for All Pennsylvania,
Patty Eakin (President of PASNAP),
Jeff Garis of Penn Action,
Sandra Strauss (Pa. Council of Churches. Sandra will do the invocation and also will speak
Walter Tsou, MD (Nationally recognized consultant on public health and healthcare reform; Former Philadelphia Health Commissioner)
Tom Murt (Republican member of the Pa. House, representing parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties)
Janice Horn (Healthcare Specialist, Pennsylvania League of Women Voters)
for more information, contact Jerry Policoff (717-295-0237) or Pedro Rodriguez (215-300-5902)
Next HCAP meetings in June
May 26, 2009
Next Steering Committee meeting, June 2: Temple Campus, Room 614 Gladfelter Hall (on 11th Street, between Berks and Norris)
General Membership meeting, June 9 will be held on the Philadelphia Community College Campus, Bonnell Bldg at 17th and Spring Garden, Room BG17
Tim Lachman
Rally for Single Payer, May 30, 12 noon, CIGNA in Philadelphia
May 12, 2009
Rally For Guaranteed Single-Payer Healthcare For All
May 30th – Philadelphia, PA
Join thousands of single-payer supporters in a nationwide week of action to supportimproved Medicare for all (HR 676). Single-payer activists will be gathering all over the country to say, “Healthcare, yes; Insurance companies, no,” and to show solidarity with demonstrations at the AHIP (American Health Insurance Plans, a private health insurance lobby) conference in San Diego.
Sponsored by:
The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care – www.guaranteedhealthcare4all.org | Healthcare-NOW! – www.Healthcare-Now.org Progressive Democrats of Americca – www.PDAmerica.org | CNA/National Nurses Organizing Committee – www.calnurse.org Physicians for a National Health Program – www.PNHP.org | Americans for Democratic Action – www.ADAction.org
Join Us!
Place: Cigna’s Headquarters
Two Liberty Place
16th and Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Time: Saturday, May 30, 2009
12 Noon to 1:30 PM
C o n t a ct: Jeff@Healthcare-Now.org
267-515-2400
www.PhillyHealth.org
Guaranteed Healthcare: We can do it! 47 million Americans are uninsured. Private insurance rates are rising faster than inflation and our incomes. By 2025 the cost of private health insurance will exceed our projected income. A single-payer healthcare system is the only healthcare reform option that will cover every American resident while saving us billions of dollars. The majority of Americans want it. The majority of physicians want it. The only thing missing is the political will in Washington.
Health Care for All-Philadelphia – www.PhillyHealth.org | Healthcare for All-PA – www.healthcare4allpa.org Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals – www.PennaNurses.org
New meeting location in May
March 17, 2009
Health Care for All Philadelphia will meet temporarily, and maybe permanently on Tuesday, May 12, 7-9 PM at Temple University, Gladfelter Hall, Room 614, which is between 11th and 12th and Norris and Montgomery Avenue on Temple main campus. Here is a map of Temple which shows Gladfelter Hall at #22 on the map. http://www.temple.edu/maps/documents/TUMain_map.pdf
Explanation: We have met for several years at the Penn Newman Center on the second Tuesday of each month. However, we moved our monthly meetings beginning in May because of new rental charges at the Newman Center.
February 14, 2009
HEALTHCARE FOR ALL
TOWN HALL MEETING
WITH REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS, JR. (D MI)
Saturday, March 7, 1 PM – 3 PM
Penn Newman Center
3720 Chestnut St.
(Enter from Sansom St.)
All are welcome, don’t stay away if you can’t pay! Donations appreciated to defray expenses.
Join Representative Conyers, author of
The United States National Health Care Act, HR 676(“Expanded & Improved Medicare for ALL”)
and other speakers
Sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program, Health Care for All Philadelphia, Healthcare Now!
Labor donated
PA Healthcare: The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg?
February 7, 2009
PA Healthcare: The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg?
Harrisburg, PA – A group working for publicly-funded, privately-provided health care believes abandoning the employer-based health care system in Pennsylvania would be one of the solutions to the state’s economic troubles.
Health Care for All Pennsylvania predicts the Family and Business Health Care Security Act – also known as the “single payer” solution – would cover all Pennsylvania residents, save $15 billion over the current “multi-payer” system, and create over 100,000 medical delivery jobs, according to executive director Chuck Pennacchio.
“This legislation would be the greatest jobs creation program since the late 19th century when the steel industry took off like a rocket in Pennsylvania.”
The plan has gained wide appeal and a has good chance of passage this year, says Pennacchio.
“We’ve been able to pick up Republican support, which makes us the only legislative campaign for universal health care that has been able to attract Republican support.”
The plan would be funded using existing state and federal funds, along with a three-percent personal income tax and 10-percent business payroll tax. Supporters include labor, business, the governor, the Allegheny County Council, and the city councils in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Erie. While supporters say most Pennsylvanians would save money under the plan, opponents say it would create another large taxpayer-funded bureaucracy.
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