NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HR
676 – MEDICARE FOR ALL
Thousands of calls to Congress
in support of HR 676!
Targeting the Washington DC offices. They especially need to hear from us again
and again that the Massachusetts reform is unaffordable and unsustainable and
will never come close to covering everyone.
Call John Olver at 202-225-5335.
He is a cosponsor of HR 676. Thank him!
Call Richard Neal at 202-225-8112.
He is not yet a cosponsor and sits on the powerful Ways & Means Committee.
Call John Kerry at 202-224-2742.
Call Ted Kennedy at 202-224-4543.
According to a letter he sent in response to a request to support HR 676, he
stated "In recent weeks I have been working on legislation that will have
bipartisan support and guarantee quality, affordable health care for all Americans
and their families." We need to let him know that the only way to
achieve this is by implementing single-payer national health care for all. He
is a powerful force for reform who needs to be convinced that the people want
single payer and not a Massachusetts style reform.
They
all need to be encouraged to attend the briefing on HR 676 on January 28, 3-5pm,
in the halls of Congress. The briefing will allow elected officials to learn
about the economic impact a single-payer system will have in an economic
recovery package. In August of 2005, the National Coalition on Health Care
found in a fiscal analysis of health care reform that "the single
payer model would reduce costs by over $1.1 trillion over the next decade while
providing comprehensive benefits to all Americans." Single-payer is the only
reform proposal that can claim cost savings and comprehensive health care for
all.
Info:
Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare, info@healthcare-now.org.
Thursday January 15
DEPRAVED INDIFFERENCE: THE
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION SYSTEM
7pm, Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College
St (Routes 116 at 47), in the Village Commons, S Hadley, 534-7307 or
800-540-7307; odysseybks@aol.com; www.odysseybks.com
(www.odysseybks.com/directions.html). Patrice Woeppel will read from and sign
her new book, Depraved Indifference: the Workers’ Compensation System.
Every eight minutes in America,
someone dies from a work injury or illness - more deaths than from most
diseases. Depraved Indifference dissects a system that destroys the
health and life of workers without fear of prosecution, or even public outcry,
while throwing the preponderance of costs onto families and taxpayers. The
stories in Depraved Indifference are the stories of ordinary people.
Discarded and forgotten by their employers, denied medical coverage by the
workers’ compensation insurer; many have been left to die, slowly and
agonizingly, unnoticed by all but their grieving families. Depraved
Indifference represents over five years of research and interviews. The
final chapter lays out recommendations and strategies for action to bring
justice and fairness, corporate accountability, and public disclosure to this
system. Info: www.patricewoeppel.us.
Tuesday January 20
FRANKLIN/HAMPSHIRE HEALTH
CARE COALITION
7pm, Lathrop Village Community
Room, Shallow Brook Drive, off Bridge Rd, Northampton. Organizing for the Massachusetts Health Care Trust Fund Bill -
a universal health care system, providing universal access, a comprehensive
range of physical and mental health benefits, choice of provider, quality,
unified financing and cost controls, accountable governance, and stability. A
Massachusetts Health Care Trust Fund will be a "single-payer" of all
health care costs, statewide. Also organizing for the national alternative to
state action: Medicare for All – HR 676. Info: info@fhhcc.org.
Please visit www.masscare.org
and www.healthcare-now.org.
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