City of San Francisco will endorse California's Universal Healthcare Act (SB810).
SinglePayerNow.net wants you to show your support at the 1:30pm Board of Supervisor’s meeting at SF's city hall. Public comment will be taken. A showing of strong public support is needed given the huge struggle with the insurance industry over our healthcare.
Monday, March 16th
Attend a 6:30 workshop on testifying the next day - go to SinglePayerNow.net for details where you can also get a T-shirt that says “Healthcare Yes! Insurance Companies No". Can't make it? You can see and order shirt at:
http://singlepayernow.net/documents/teeshirt
Shirts are $17 via mail or $13 at the events.
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SINGLE PAYER IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK:
Sacramento Bee coverage of Mark Leno's Press Conference re-introducing California single payer legislation, SB 810:
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/020581.html
"Universal health care called S.F.'s future" in SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/12/BANR16DHAF.DTL
Another SF Chronicle article supporting Single Payer:
URL: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090310_put_single_payer_on_the_table/
Time Magazine's story on Single Payer:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1883149,00.html
Pacifica radio coverage on NPR re Single Payer for "Democracy Now" series:
http://i4.democracynow.org/shows/2009/3/11
New Yorker publishes letters to the Editor re Gawande's recent article http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/26/090126fa_fact_gawandeon healthcare reform:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/03/09/toc_20090302
Three of the country’s top organizations of direct care registered nurses have come together to form a new national nurses’ union that is advocating for a single-payer national health insurance program. The new union unifies the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and the Massachusetts Nurses Association into a 150,000-member association, making it the largest registered nurses union in US history. Nurse or not, join them for the upcoming White House Forums on Healthcare Reform:
- March 17th Burlington, Vermont
- March 23rd Des Moines, Iowa
- March 31st Greensboro, North Carolina
- April 6th Los Angeles, California
- May 7th San Francisco, California
For more info from the CNA re this: http://www.calnurses.org/
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FROM THE EAST COAST - SINGLE PAYER RISING UP:
Check this out from the AFL-CIO out of Vermont:http://www.workerscenter.org/clc/health.html
...they'll be at the White House summit in Michigan to welcome all attending
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NEW AMMUNITION - FACTS & FIGURES:
On the heels of the latest news re AIG, et al's "just had to do it" bonus payouts...
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/healthcare/upload/hc_ceosalaries.pdf
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