[HCCN] Fwd: Single-Payer Healthcare: Augusta Rally, May 30th

[Judy Robbins]

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> From: Steve Burke <stevbee at midcoast.com>
> Date: May 18, 2009 11:52:21 AM EDT
> To: Steve Burke <stevbee at midcoast.com>
> Subject: Single-Payer Healthcare: Augusta Rally, May 30th  (M/C P&J  
> lists)
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> Midcoast Peace and Justice - Statewide list:
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> Please help to spread the word by encouraging others to attend and  
> by forwarding to email lists.
> Also ... you can help to insure that the rally is well covered and  
> promoted by exercising any media contacts you have.....Thanks, Steve.
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> Single-Payer Healthcare: National Day of Action May 30th Nationwide  
> Rallies for Improved Medicare for All
> Thousands of supporters of Single-Payer Healthcare will gather in  
> cities across the nation on or about May 30th to demand a system of  
> healthcare that uses our healthcare dollars to extend quality  
> healthcare to all and to stop financing insurance and  
> pharmaceutical corporate profit.  This type of single payer system  
> is enjoyed by most other industrialized countries in the world and  
> the time has come for our country to join them and step up to a  
> higher standard of healthcare.
> Although the US spends almost TWICE as much per person on  
> healthcare than any other nation in the world, we rank only 37th  
> for quality of health and distribution of services, 46th in terms  
> of lifespan and 39th in terms of infant mortality.  This is not for  
> lack of medical expertise or technology; it is for lack of a system  
> that is focused on healthcare rather than insurance/pharmaceutical  
> corporate profit. Recent polls indicate that a majority of  
> physicians (59 percent) and an even higher proportion of Americans  
> (62 percent or more) support single-payer national health insurance  
> or "Medicare for All." Inspite of this, there has been a systematic  
> blackout of media coverage of the Single Payer option and refusal  
> to allow any representation of this option during Congressional  
> Healthcare Reform Forums. This is finally starting to change,  
> largely as a result of media attention to the protests over the  
> past two weeks during the finance committee meetings on healthcare  
> reform led by Senator Baucus.  Local Single-Payer organizer Jerry  
> Call, was among the protesters, now referred to as the Baucus 13,  
> demanding representation of the Single-Payer option in the  
> Healthcare reform debate.
> On May 30th, the American people will be given the opportunity to  
> demonstrate their united support for a National Single Payer system  
> by "putting their feet on the street" at rallies scheduled across  
> the country.  (The list of nationwide locations plus more  
> information about the single payer movement can be found at  
> www.Healthcare-NOW.org).  Our local rally is in Augusta, at the  
> State House from 12:00 to 2:00 PM. There will be speakers  
> (including Jerry Call), music, food and information about the  
> Single-Payer Healthcare option for healthcare reform and what needs  
> to be done to make it a reality.  We expect a large crowd and hope  
> the combined media coverage across the country will strengthen the  
> message to our President and Congress that the Americans want and  
> deserve a healthcare system that works for the people and not for  
> the profit of the healthcare industries. Join us at the Augusta  
> State House, National Single Payer Day of Action Rally, Saturday  
> May 30, 2009 - 12:00-2:00 and we will make National Single-Payer  
> Healthcare a reality in our country too.
>
> Midcoast Health Care Reform/Maine Healthcare Reform
> (207) 596-7784
> www.MidcoastHealthCareReform.org
> Blog = http://medicare444all.blogspot.com/

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