HEALTH CARE RALLY on SEPT 30 from 6-8pm at the northwest corner of the intersection of HOLLYWOOD and HIGHLAND Let's launch the White Ribbon as a national symbol for the Single Payer Movement. Tie a white ribbon somewhere in your local community!! Do it today! Please join us and people around the country as we rally in support of a Single Payer plan in our own cities. We will be passing out white ribbons to the press, to pedestrians and drivers-by, just as the Mad As Hell Doctors will be doing upon their arrival in DC on the same day, asking for an audience with the President to promote an American Single Payer Plan. Medical professionals and students, politicians, celebrities, entertainers and citizens, please contact Teri or Kristin if you would like to offer testimonials and/or express your outrage at a corrupted health care system that puts profit before people. Our message to the President and Congress is clear: The National Universal Health Plan, HR676, is the Solution. We Demand it Now. The "Public Option" is a token, the mandate a trap. It does nothing to make US business more competitive against an international manufacturing base not burden by such mandate. We refuse to see our jobs disappear, our health deteriorate, our personal and collective future in peril just to protect the middle-man. What we need is real reform that finds immediate savings, controls costs, and accomplishes the moral imperative of true Universal Access. A single-payer plan is the only real path to an American Health Care System that is socially, ethically and fiscally responsible. The president says his most important job is keeping us safe, many more of us will die at the hands of our present system than at the hands of terrorists. REAL CHANGE NOWGET MAD - STAY MAD! EVERYBODY IN - NOBODY OUT! TIE ONE ON FOR SINGLE PAYER! In support of: www.madashelldoctors.comRSVP
Demonstration against AHIP--"America's Health Insurance Plans"
Noon Tuesday 9/22, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, DC
Short walk from Archives Metro station http://www.wmata.com/rail/station_detail.cfm?station_id=81
Every day, AHIP is spreading money and misinformation around to kill needed reform. Noon on Tuesday, September 22, we'll send a clear message to the insurance company fat cats and the lawmakers who are "joined at the AHIP."
Bring signs if you can, we'll have some for you if you can't. Tell everyone you know.
AHIP's members support "tea bag" town hall disruptions and withhold needed care from American families. They want to block real reform and trick or arm-twist our elected officials into giving them our tax dollars. The average big health insurance CEO makes about $1 million a month! They line their pockets by telling people they can't have the care they need. They're bankrupting families and killing people.
I am a healthy woman, a single mother and self-employed.
My monthly medical insurance premium is $800, more than my mortgage. Still, if I need to fill a prescription, I usually have to get it from abroad; still I have huge deductibles and copayments.
What I do not have is a savings account, so where I ever to really need my insurance, I could not afford my share anyway.
Government provided healthcare is a right if you are over 65, it is a right if you are under 21, it is a right if you are a government employee, it is right if you are poor, (Medicaid), but if you are middle class, between 21 and 65 and not a government dependant, you pay for everyone, you pay for yourself, you pay for the insurance companies profits for all of you.
ENOUGH, if it is a right, a right protected under the law, then is no longer a matter of debate; it is a 14th amendment issue.
Forget public option, it was a compromise to begin with, not a great place to start negotiations. How about this, by decree, as of today Medicare kicks in at 55, next year at 50 and so on.
We claim stock for R&D of Rx and bring the prices of medications to the price US labs sell them abroad, (a 7th), and include them as a vital part of any health plan. Medicare taxes go up progressively to cover everyone. DONE
Demonstration against AHIP--"America's Health Insurance Plans"
ReplyDeleteNoon Tuesday 9/22, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, DC
Short walk from Archives Metro station
http://www.wmata.com/rail/station_detail.cfm?station_id=81
Every day, AHIP is spreading money and misinformation around to kill needed reform. Noon on Tuesday, September 22, we'll send a clear message to the insurance company fat cats and the lawmakers who are "joined at the AHIP."
Bring signs if you can, we'll have some for you if you can't. Tell everyone you know.
AHIP's members support "tea bag" town hall disruptions and withhold needed care from American families. They want to block real reform and trick or arm-twist our elected officials into giving them our tax dollars. The average big health insurance CEO makes about $1 million a month! They line their pockets by telling people they can't have the care they need. They're bankrupting families and killing people.