Fwd: SF Medicare for All Actioni Thurs 10 Feb 25

Medicare for All Rally

Thurs. 10am, Feb. 25

Let President Obama Know About Health Policy That Works

San Francisco Federal Building

90  7^th St., between Market and Mission – Civic Center BART/MUNI

 

Dear Single Payer Healthcare Activist,

 

Please join us Thursday at a Sidewalk Summit to tell President Obama that the policy that meets his goals of bringing down premiums, bringing down the deficit, covering the uninsured, strengthening Medicare, and stopping insurance company abuses, is Improved Medicare for All.  

 

On Thursday in Washington, DC, President Obama is meeting with Republicans and Democrats to search for solutions to our healthcare crisis.  But once again the president and congress are not including any discussion of the only real solution to America's health care problems – expanding and improving Medicare to cover everyone in America.

 

Join with activists from the California Physicians Alliance, California Alliance for Retired Americans, Gray Panthers, and Single Payer Now to let President Obama know that we want Medicare for All.

 

We encourage you to forward this message.

Please let us know if you can help on Thursday.

 

___ I plan to come on Thursday at 10am.

___ I can hold a banner.

___ I can help sign people in.

___ I have forwarded this message.

 

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

www.singlepayernow.net

415-810-5826

The President's goals and our responses:

1. Expand coverage and provide more Americans health care – Improved Medicare for All will provide comprehensive medical, mental, dental, vision and prescription coverage to all people (everybody in, nobody out) living in the United States from birth to death without gaps. No system based on private insurance can make the same guarantee.

2. End insurance company abuses – Improved Medicare for All will remove the expensive and bloated private insurance bureaucracy from our health care system and effectively end their profit-driven practices of denying and restricting coverage. All people in America will enjoy the same sense of security that those with traditional Medicare currently feel in knowing that necessary care will be covered and that their coverage cannot be taken away. Medicare is accountable to the public, rather than to investors.

3. Control health care costs – Improved Medicare for All is the only solution with built-in cost controls. There will be immediate savings of $400 billion per year simply by removing the high administrative and marketing costs that come with having over 1,300 different private insurance plans. Additional savings will arise through negotiations for fair pharmaceutical prices as Wal-Mart does now.

4. Decrease the deficit – Improved Medicare for All is the only solution which will put the brakes on our health care costs which are spiraling out of control. Further positive effects on the economy will occur as businesses are relieved of the financial burden of paying for health benefits allowing them to focus on building their business, raising wages and competing in the global market. Having less volatility in health care prices will allow businesses to hire more employees, thereby spurring job growth.

5. Stabilize Medicare – Improved Medicare for All will finally relieve the financial stress which is placed on Medicare from providing coverage for those who have the greatest health care needs – those who are disabled or who are 65 years of age and older. Everybody, healthy and ill, will contribute to the Medicare fund throughout their lives knowing that Medicare will be there for them when they need it.

No matter what the Congress and president do, if anything, the time is now to lay the foundation for a real health care reform movement that cannot be ignored.