Want Real Reform--Then This is the Side to Be on; This the Place to Be
| By Michael Carano - Aug 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am EDT |
| Also listed in: Advocates for Mental Health Recovery | Progressive Democrats America-- Ohio |
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Categories: Action Alerts, Affordable Healthcare, Consumer and Worker Protection, Economic Fairness and Security, Civil Rights and Equality, Social Justice, News, Opinion, Front Page
Categories: Action Alerts, Affordable Healthcare, Consumer and Worker Protection, Economic Fairness and Security, Civil Rights and Equality, Social Justice, News, Opinion, Front Page
ADVISORY/ANNOUNCEMENT: Saturday, August 9th, 10 a.m. press conference: Join us in promoting that "Guaranteed Healthcare for All" language be added to DNC Platform. Healthcare for All Pennsylvania is co-sponsoring a press conference in
Pittsburgh this Saturday morning, along with Congressman John Conyers, Mary Nichols-Rhodes, PDA Ohio CD Organizer, member of SPAN Ohio State Council (Single Payer Action Network Ohio), and LPN, Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo, Western PA Coalition for Healthcare, and Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association and Co-Chair of Progressive Democrats of America Health Care Committee.
(For the record, Single Payer Action Network (SPAN Ohio) and Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, are both non-partisan organizations. They will be promoting the same amendment language in the run-up to the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities. Both organizations know solving the health care crisis is a non-partisan issue since illness knows no party lines.)
The pro-Single Payer, national-state coalition press conference, cited above, will be held at the David Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, August 9th at 10 am in Room 307, off the Main Ballroom, where the Platform meeting of the DNC congregates for a final meeting prior to the Democratic Party convention in Denver (August 24-28). Congressman John Conyers (HR 676, Chair of House Judiciary Cmte.), Senator Jim Ferlo (PA-SB 300), Donna Smith (California Nurses Assn, "SiCKO"), Dr. Scott Tyson (PUSH co-chair, HC4APA), HC4APA Executive Director Chuck Pennachio, PDA Organzier and LPN Mary Nichols-Rhodes, Western PA Coalition members, and labor, business, healthcare-provider representatives will address the economic, moral, and democratic underpinnings of the Single-Payer Solution -- "Guaranteed Healthcare for All" -- at the last Democratic Platform Committee meeting before the national Party convention in Denver.
As such, we are jointly advancing the following statement:
* Guarantee accessible health care for all.
* Create a single standard of high quality, comprehensive, and preventive
health care for all.
* Allow freedom of choice of physician, hospital, and other health care providers.
* Eliminate financial barriers that prevent families and individuals from
obtaining the medically necessary care they need.
* Allow physicians, nurses and other licensed health care providers to make
health care decisions based on what is best for the health of the patient.
The first 2008 Democratic National Convention delegate to become a signer of
this statement was Rep. John Conyers. 288 additional delegates have signed on as
of 5 p.m. this afternoon August 7th. We encourage all to call or write their delegates to the convention to ask them to also sign the statement. For more information on those working for “real” health care reform, see:http://pdamerica.org/leadership www.pdamerica.org
Questions? Call Ohio PDA State Coordinator Michael Carano at 330-715-2066 for more information.
Pittsburgh this Saturday morning, along with Congressman John Conyers, Mary Nichols-Rhodes, PDA Ohio CD Organizer, member of SPAN Ohio State Council (Single Payer Action Network Ohio), and LPN, Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo, Western PA Coalition for Healthcare, and Donna Smith of the California Nurses Association and Co-Chair of Progressive Democrats of America Health Care Committee.
(For the record, Single Payer Action Network (SPAN Ohio) and Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, are both non-partisan organizations. They will be promoting the same amendment language in the run-up to the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities. Both organizations know solving the health care crisis is a non-partisan issue since illness knows no party lines.)
The pro-Single Payer, national-state coalition press conference, cited above, will be held at the David Lawrence Convention Center, 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd., downtown Pittsburgh, Saturday, August 9th at 10 am in Room 307, off the Main Ballroom, where the Platform meeting of the DNC congregates for a final meeting prior to the Democratic Party convention in Denver (August 24-28). Congressman John Conyers (HR 676, Chair of House Judiciary Cmte.), Senator Jim Ferlo (PA-SB 300), Donna Smith (California Nurses Assn, "SiCKO"), Dr. Scott Tyson (PUSH co-chair, HC4APA), HC4APA Executive Director Chuck Pennachio, PDA Organzier and LPN Mary Nichols-Rhodes, Western PA Coalition members, and labor, business, healthcare-provider representatives will address the economic, moral, and democratic underpinnings of the Single-Payer Solution -- "Guaranteed Healthcare for All" -- at the last Democratic Platform Committee meeting before the national Party convention in Denver.
As such, we are jointly advancing the following statement:
* Guarantee accessible health care for all.
* Create a single standard of high quality, comprehensive, and preventive
health care for all.
* Allow freedom of choice of physician, hospital, and other health care providers.
* Eliminate financial barriers that prevent families and individuals from
obtaining the medically necessary care they need.
* Allow physicians, nurses and other licensed health care providers to make
health care decisions based on what is best for the health of the patient.
The first 2008 Democratic National Convention delegate to become a signer of
this statement was Rep. John Conyers. 288 additional delegates have signed on as
of 5 p.m. this afternoon August 7th. We encourage all to call or write their delegates to the convention to ask them to also sign the statement. For more information on those working for “real” health care reform, see:http://pdamerica.org/leadership www.pdamerica.org
Questions? Call Ohio PDA State Coordinator Michael Carano at 330-715-2066 for more information.
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These (and plenty of other things) are really nice. And it would be great if everyone could have the highest quality healthcare available. The question is - where's the money to pay for it? (aside from having the government print more.)
Do you have no sense of social consciousness or is everything about your own self-interest (taxes, stock prices, etc.)?