Friday, July 11, 2014

SF,CA July 19 - Fix the VA Healthcare System



Single Payer Now

Attend and Build Our 3pm July 19 Meeting on the Veterans Administration Healthcare System
518 Valencia San Francisco
We need volunteers to call our phone tree


I hope you attend out July 19 meeting on Healthcare for Veterans.
See leaflet pasted below and attached.
We also could use your help calling our phone tree and posting 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 can help call our phone tree. I will send you local names and a suggested script. Some people make 10 calls, some 20, some more. Let me know how many names you can make.
___ Yes, I can post the attached leaflet at my local coffee shop.
___ 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 16th St BART and ½ block south of 16th 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

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