CALIF Single Payer Actions May 29, Jun4 4 & 10

Single Payer Actions - SF May 29, SD June 4, SF June 10

We Need You to Attend & Build These Events.

Photo from May 26 SF Baucus Picket

 

Dear Single Payer Activist,

 

I hope you can help attend and help build the following events.

I apologize for the alert not being sent sooner, but we got involved in an emergency picket of Senator Max Baucus on May 26.  See photo below.

 

On Friday May 29 we will be delivering "Put Single Payer on the Table" postcards to Congress Member Nancy Pelosi.  We will meet outside at noon at 450 Golden Gate in SF, sign postcards, and then take them to her office.  This is one of 40 national single payer actions.  See leaflet below.  Here is how you can help.

___ I can attend the May 29 event in San Francisco

___ I can help call our phone tree.  I can make ___ calls.  I will send you numbers and a suggested script.

___ I have forwarded this email.

 

On Thursday, June 4, we will rally at the American Health Insurance Plans annual conference in San Diego.  We will meet at the Convention Center at 8am.  See attached leaflet.

___ I can attend the June 4 rally.   Flights from SF on Southwest are $109 round trip.  Motel 6 is $59. I will be in SD from June 1 to June 5.  On Tuesday, June 2 at 6:30, I will be meeting with activists to talk about the strategies and politics of winning single payer.  Call for details.

___ I can help call our SD phone tree. 

___ I have forwarded this alert.

 

On Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30 in SF, I hope you can attend a wonderful meeting on international health systems.  See leaflet pasted below. 

___ I plan to attend the June 10 meeting.

___ I can call our phone tree.  I can make ___ calls.

___ I have forwarded this alert.

 

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

www.singlepayernow.net

 

Rally For Healthcare Minus the Insurance Companies

Tell Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to:

Put Single Payer Healthcare on the Table.

Support HR 676, the US National Healthcare Act

We will be demanding that Congress Member Nancy Pelosi foster a discussion on the single payer legislation, HR 676, the US National Healthcare Act – and Put Single Payer on the table. 

Fri. Noon, May 29

450 Golden Gate – SF

(The Federal Building)

 3 blocks north of the Civic Center (BART/MUNIi)

 

Sponsored by Senior Action Network, California Alliance for Retired Americans, SacramentoResources for Independent Living, San Francisco Gray Panthers, Wellstone Democratic Club, EastBay Act Up, and Single Payer Now.

Other planned rallies.

Albany, NY - May 27th Atlanta, GA - May 27th Augusta, ME - May 30th Austin, TX - May 30th Billings, MT - May 16th Boston, MA - May 30th Chicago, IL - June 2nd Denver, CO - May 30th Elmwood Park, NJ - June 5 Fenton, MI - May 21st Gainesville, FL - May 28th & 30th

Indianapolis, IN - May 20th Lawrence, KS - May 30th Louisville, KY - May 28th Middleton, CT - May 28th New Albany, IN - May 30th New York City, NY - May 30th Philadelphia, PA - May 30th Pittsburgh, PA - May 29th Phoenix, AZ - May 30th Pontiac, MI - June 16th Portland, OR - TBA

Princeton, NJ - May 31st Rochester, NY - May 30th San Diego, CA - June 4th San Francisco, CA – May 29 Seattle, WA - May 30th Springfield, MA - May 27th Tampa, FL - TBA Topeka, KS - May 30th Towson, MD - May 30th Wheaton, MD - May 30th

 

For more information, call 415-695-7891 or email dbechler@value.net

www.singlepayernow.net                                             labor donated  posted  May 22, 2009

 

Comparing International Healthcare Systems to U.S.Proposals for Healthcare

What can be learned from other countries?  How can we tell phony reforms from real reforms?  Is the "Public Option" based on any evidence based experience? When State Senator Sam Aanestad criticizes SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare for being like a failed Canadian system, is he spot on or dead wrong?

 

6:30 Wed     June 10

474 Valencia   SF

Centro del Pueblo at 16^th St.

( ½ block north of 16^th ST,  1 block to 16^th BART, buses  26 Valencia, 22 on 16^th, 14, 33, & 49 at 16^th BART at Mission )

Speaker:

Claudia Chaufan MD, PhD, Vice President of the California PhysiciansAlliance and Assistant Professor of Health Policy at UCSF. 

 

Sponsored by Single Payer Now

For more information please call 415-695-7891 or email dbechler@value.net

www.singlepayernow.net                          labor donated  posted March 26, 2007

 

 

On short notice, 40 single payer supporters picketed a $10,000 a person fundraiser for the Democratic Party Senatorial Campaign Committee.  Senator Max Baucus who has banned discussion of single payer legislation in DC was the featured speaker.   The picket was called by the CA Alliance for Retired Americans, the CA Physicians Alliance, and Single Payer Now.  Members from United Educators or SF, Workman's Circle, CA Nurses Assn, Progressive Perspectives, Health Care for All-CA, SF for Democracy, and I.A.T.S.E local 6 were also in attendance.