SinglePayer conference is $3000 short - Can you help?

Dear Healthcare-NOW! National Strategy Conference attendee:

 

We've all just returned from a fabulous National Strategy Conference held in Oakland with our allies from the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer and One Payer States.  Many of you may not be aware, but fundraising at our strategy conference is an important part of Healthcare-NOW's annual budget. Because of the joint nature of the conference this year, there was no portion of the agenda where we could effectively ask attendees to help support our expenses, and we fell more than $3,000 short on donations compared to previous years, despite what many of us felt was our best strategy conference yet.

 

If you didn't get a chance to make a donation at the conference, please take a moment to help Healthcare-NOW! make sure we are not left with any unexpected and/or uncovered conference expenses that could derail the significant progress we've been making in recent weeks to get our fundraising back on track. Next year is Medicare's 50th Anniversary, and in celebration of a planned mass mobilization we are looking for 50 monthly sustaining donors at $50 a month for 2015.  But any amount is deeply appreciated.

 

Time and again we heard stories of gaps in coverage, impossible to surmount deductibles and co-pays, and burdens on families, businesses and health care providers.  In 2015, we will start seeing significant tax consequences.  There is a simpler answer - single payer health care – and we're energized by everyone at the conference to step up the important work needed to put single payer on the table for the next phase of health reform. 

 

We keep registration fees as low as possible each year to make the conference affordable to all, and this year more than 15% of our attendees received scholarships from Healthcare-NOW, providing registration for free. So we need your help to make sure our post-conference fundraising fills in the gap, and that we can begin planning with confidence for all the work ahead to advance single-payer and celebrate Medicare's 50th in the coming year.

 

Thanks for your support, and feel free to email me with any questions!

Ben

 

Benjamin Day

Director of Organizing

Healthcare-NOW!