SF,CA July 19 - Fix the VA - Don't Privatize it

3pm Sat. July 19 Meeting on the

Veterans Administration Healthcare System

518 Valencia San Francisco

 

I hope you attend out July 19 meeting on Healthcare for Veterans.

See leaflet pasted below.

leaflets.  Please let us know if you can attend and/or if you can help build the meeting.

We encourage you to forward this alert.

___ Yes, I plan to attend the July 19 meeting.

___ Yes, I can come at 2:30 to help set up.

___ Yes, I have forwarded this alert.

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

Healthcare for Veterans

Privatization

Won't Fix the VA

First it was Social Security, then Medicare and Medicaid, and then the public health care option under Obamacare. Now, in the wake of recent allegations that veterans hospitals put patients on secret wait lists, Republicans are calling for the privatization of the Veterans Health Administration, the nation's largest public health care system which provides cost-effective and high quality care to 6.2 million veterans.

 

It is of course unacceptable if patients suffered as a result of any delays. But regardless of what went wrong at any VA facility, turning veterans over to private sector insurers and for-profit hospitals is not the solution.

 

With its salaried staff of nearly 280,000, the VA has long been a model for health care delivery. The VA's 152 hospitals, 900 clinics, 300 mental health centers, and other facilities — many located in rural areas that the private sector ignores — care for more than 230,000 people a day. In a recent survey of veterans for the American Customer Satisfaction Index, patients rated the system's services as equal to or better than private sector health care facilities.

518 Valencia

( one block west of 16^th St BART and ½ block south of 16^th St )

San Francisco

Sat. 3pm July 19

Speaker: Suzanne Gordon

Suzanne Gordon is an award-winning journalist and author. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, JAMA, The Annals of Internal Medicine, and others.  She is the co-editor of the Culture and Politics of Healthcare Work series at Cornell University Press. - See more at: http://suzannecgordon.com/meet-suzanne/#sthash.3vsCLyJs.dpuf

Sponsored by Single Payer Now

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

www.singlepayernow.net

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