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Title:
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PROTEST: Insurance Companies Profit, People Die!
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START DATE:
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12/16/2009
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START TIME:
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4:00 PM
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Duration:
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2 Hours
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Location:
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CBD
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Location Details:
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Federal Building
500 Poydras Street
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Event Topic:
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Health Care
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Event Type:
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Protest
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Contact Name:
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Health Care Now! New Orleans
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Contact Email:
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HealthCareForAllNOLA@gmail.com
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Contact Phone:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Please join us this Wednesday, December 16th at 4 PM,
memorializing the 45,000 people who die every year for lack of health insurance in the United States.
Insurance companies profit, people die!
We believe health care is a human right.
Everyone should have access to guaranteed quality health care.
The U.S. health care system, driven by profit for insurance companies, does not ensure quality health care for all.
The “public option” does not go far enough in reforming this system.
A single-payer system is a more affordable system that provides
quality health care for all.
Health Care Now! New Orleans
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
4:00pm
Federal Building
500 Poydras Street
Learn More:
1. What is "Single Payer"?
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/what_is_single_payer.php
National groups like Physicians for a National Health Plan, Single
Payer Action, and Healthcare Now! Are great resources to learn more. Find out more here: http://www.singlepayeraction.org/resources.html
2. Single Payer Myth vs. Fact;
http://student.pnhp.org/docs/facts_and_myths.pdf
3. Why the Public Option is not enough:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/june/testimony_of_steffie.php
4. Public Option vs. Single Payer
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/14-3
5. Compare The Plans - Custom Make Your Own Side By Side Comparison
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm
Take Action:
1. Blast Fax your Senators! Medicare for All Fax Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1021.php
2. Call and/or email Senators Landrieu and Vitter!
Senator Landrieu - (202) 224-5824 senator@landrieu.senate.gov or
jane_campbell@landrieu.senate.gov
Senator Vitter - (202) 224-4623 david_Vitter@vitter.senate.gov
Ask them to support Sen. Bernie Sanders’ amendment - (Senate Amendment 2837) - to the current health care reform bill, which gives states the option to develop a single-payer system.
Ask your friends and relatives to call up senators in their own states!
3. Follow the Bill:
http://www.thomas.loc.gov/
Contact Us:
Healthcare for All! New Orleans. Get involved in building a movement for health care for everyone:
HealthCareForAllNOLA@gmail.com Joanna 504.376.3246 or Angela 504.202.7954
Visit us on http://www.facebook.com/ @ Health Care Now! New Orleans
We also support community based solutions such as member-funded co-ops and community clinics.
Some examples are Charity Hospital, Common Ground, Christian Health Care Ministries, Daughters of Charity Services of New Orleans & St. Thomas Community Health Center.
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