Fwd: Oakland Feb 3 - Help Put Medicare for All on the 2016 Presidential Campaign Agenda

Help Put Medicare for All on the 2016 Presidential Campaign Agenda

Tues. 6:45 to 8pm Feb. 3

Paramount Theater  in Oakland (12^th St BART)

Hold Banners and Distribute Leaflets at President Clinton's Address

Let us know if you can help.

 

We need your help sending a message to President Clinton and his audience on Feb. 3 in Oakland.  We will distribute leaflets and hold banners for Medicare for All – HR 676.  Our leaflets will contain some of the information below and also announce our Feb. 16 meeting on Healthcare and the Homeless in SF.

Please let us know how you can help.

___ I can help hold a banner on Feb. 3.  We will make as many banners as we have people to hold them.

___ I can help distribute leaflets on Feb 3.

___ I can help call our activists who do not have email for turnout. 

___ I have forwarded this alert.

Some people make 10 calls, some 25, some more.  Let me know how many local calls you can make.

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

 

Dear President Clinton

We need you to help win a national healthcare system. 

The simple solution is to support HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All act sponsored by Congressman John Conyers Jr.  58 congress members also cosponsor HR 676.

 

We need HR 676, Medicare for All, as over 30 million Americans are without healthcare

 

We need HR 676, Medicare for All, so that everyone receives quality care.  We currently are in a situation where different classes of people receive different classes of care. 

 

We need HR 676, Medicare for All, as we spend twice as much money as any nation on earth.  HR 676 would save $400 billion a year.

 

We need HR 676 as it removes the deterrent of co-payments and deductibles from seeking healthcare.

 

We need HR 676, Medicare for All, in order to remove the insurance industry from our lives.

 

We need you to campaign for

HR 676, Medicare for All.

 

For more information, visit singlepayernow.net or call 415-695-7891.

Distributed by Single Payer Now                                                                                            labor donated

 

Hillary's Hard Choice

More telling than the gaffes is how out of step Hillary's candidacy is with the needs of the time. She is the candidate of continuity when the country wants change. She is Wall Street's favorite Democrat when voters want to see bankers in perp walks. She advertises her interventionist foreign policy views when the country needs rebuilding at home ... The harder question for Hillary is whether she will seek a mandate for the changes the country desperately needs. Without that, the country faces four more years of stagnation, gridlock, growing inequality, and increasing instability at home and abroad and the prospect of a failed presidency ... It requires that Hillary to break from the core policies not only of her former boss, President Obama, but also of her husband.

 

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library

Previously Restricted Documents

 

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

June 15, 1994

Remarks by the First Lady to Lehman Brothers Health Corporation

 

Question:  This next question… comes from Scott Engstrom (phonetic) of Franklin Templeton Funds. He asks, it seems clear that everyone on Capitol Hill is in favor of "health care reform" and that if the Administration wanted to compromise, some legislation could be passed very quickly. Is the danger of that approach from your perspective that that you may be giving up a mandate at a specific period in history in which you may be able to effectuate radical change? Is it now or never for massive health care reform?

 

Mrs. Hillary Clinton:  No, because what I think would happen if there is not health care reform this year, and if, for whatever reason, the Congress doesn't pass health care reform, I believe, and I may be to totally off base on this, but I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single payer system. I don't think it's — I don't even think it's a close call politically.

 

I think the momentum for a single payer system will sweep the country. And regardless of the referendum outcome in California, it will be such a huge popular issue in the sense of populist issue that even if it's not successful the first time, it will eventually be. So for those who think that building on the existing public-private system with an employer mandate is radical, I think they are extremely short-sighted, but that is their choice.

 

There are many ways to compromise health care reform, and I don't think that the President could have been clearer in every public statement he has made that he has one bottom line. It is universal coverage by a date certain. And he has basically told the Congress, you know, you've got different ways of getting there. Come to us, and let's look at it. There are only three ways to get to universal coverage. You know, a lot of people stand up and applaud universal coverage, and they sit down, and you say, "Well, how are you going to get there?", and they don't want to confront that there are only three ways.

 

You either have a general tax — the single payer approach that replaces existing private investment — or you have an employer mandate, or you have an individual mandate. And there isn't any other way to get to universal coverage. The market cannot deliver universal coverage in the foreseeable future, and any compromise that people try to suggest that would permit the market  to have a few years to try to deliver universal coverage without a mandate that would take effect to actually finish the job will guarantee a single payer heath care system.

 

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/storage/Research-Digital-Library/flotus/muscatine-flotus-press/Box-015/2011-0415-S-flotus-statements-and-speeches-4-26-94-10-21-94-binder-6-15-94-lehman-brothers-health-corp.pdf

 

More documents (search engine available):

 

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/previouslyrestricteddocs.html