Organizing for Single-Payer Health Care in the Philadelphia Region
Health Care for All Philadelphia is a coalition of health professionals and activists dedicated to achieving a publicly financed, single payer health plan that provides one standard of cost-effective, high quality care for all people.
Updates
The Power to Heal movie October 12, 7 – 8:30 PM
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
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!
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
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.
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