Fwd re CALIF - We are winning the fight for Medicare for All!" - Statewide Activist Call - Monday July 30

(Don't see your Rep on the list? Give them a call!) Last week in a historic moment for healthcare justice over 70 members of Congress joined the newly formed Medicare for All caucus. The campaign for expanded and improved Medicare for All has never been more popular. All the canvassing, phone calls, rallies, town halls, hearings, office visits, and letters to the editor -- in combination with a recent wave of progressive electoral victories -- are having a noticeable and profound effect. Now's the time to go ALL IN so we can finally win Medicare for All and make sure it doesn't get watered down by corporate interests along the way. Join us for a special conference call on Monday, July 30th, with the California Nurses Association leadership for a strategy briefing on our plan to push the Medicare for All fight forward in CA and to learn how you can get involved.   Sign Up Here Join the Medicare for All California Statewide Activist Call Monday July 30 at 6pm Monday, July 30th, is also the date of the 53rd anniversary of Medicare being signed into law. We now have an opportunity to finish what was started and join the rest of the industrialized world by guaranteeing healthcare as a human right for everybody. Sign Up to Join the Call! Thanks for your commitment to healthcare justice! In Solidarity, Holly Miller, Stephanie Roberson, and Kelly Coogan-Gehr California Nurses Association Nurses' Campaign for Medicare for All

Friends of Don Bechler and/or Single Payer Now needs dental help

DON IS ONE OF THEE LONGEST AND MOST ACTIVE HEALTHCARE ACTIVISTS IN THE NATION. CAN YOU HELP?

Dear Friends of Don Bechler and/or Supporters of Single Payer Now,

 

I need some financial help with replacing my 3 upper front teeth.

As those of you who have seen me know I have been without my front teeth for about 6 months. A bridge fell out.

I have had implant surgery and next week I will have a new bridge attached to the implants.

The procedure of getting implants and a bridge has maxed out my credit cards.  And that is not good as I live on a fixed income.

The total bill is amounting to $12,170 dollars.

It was $6900 for the implants and next Wednesday, July 25, I need $5270 for the bridgework. 

I currently do not have that amount for the dentist. 

If you can help with the bill, that would be wonderful.  It would also free up some credit card space so I can continue to capitalize our single payer advocacy work.

If you can please write a check to:

Don Bechler

3407 24^th St Apt 28

SF, CA 94110

 

Thank you in advance.

Don

 

PS As an odd detail, before my bridge came out, I knew something was loose.  I kept calling and emailing my dentist, but he did not respond.  I felt that a bit odd.  After my bridge fell out and I found another dentist, I searched for my past dentist on the Internet and found out he had died from a brain tumor.  

Fwd: SF, CA-June 27,28,29 Send out mail for Single Payer Now

 Contact him by phone to RSVP

Help Send Out Single Payer Now's Mail

Wed., Thurs., Fri., June 27.28.29

Noon to 7pm

2467 28^th Ave in SF

(1/2 block south of Taraval – Easy parking)

 

We need help sending out Single Payer Now's mail on Wed, Thurs, and Fri from noon to 7pm at the home of Barry Hermanson.  Barry lives at 2467 28^th Ave. in SF.  We will be sending announcements for our July 7 report back meeting from the national Single Payer Strategy Meeting.

At 7pm Barry will cook a wonderful vegetarian dinner.   WE

Please let us know when you can help and if you can stay for dinner.

___ Yes, I can help with the mailing on Wed, June 27 around ___.

  ___ Yes, I plan to stay for dinner on Wed.

___ Yes, I can help with the mailing on Thurs, June 28 around ___.

  ___ Yes, I plan to stay for dinner on Thurs.

___ Yes, I can help with the mailing on Fri, June 29 around ___.

  ___ Yes, I plan to stay for dinner on Fri.

Thank you,

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

CALIFORNIANS - THIS WEEKEND MAJOR MEETING RE SB562 and all things single payer...

Donate to PNHP / PNHP California PNHP - Bay Area Health care is a human right! May 7, 2018 Help build the single-payer movement among health care professionals, students, and in the community! San Francisco Bay Area PNHP Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 12 10:00am - noon Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California 1433 Madison Street Oakland, CA 94612 Close to 12th Street BART or Lake Merritt BART Parking in lot and on street (map here) Following the meeting, we invite you to join the March for Our Health (www.MarchForOurHealth.org) a rally for health justice at 1:00pm at Oscar Grant Plaza (also known as Frank Ogawa Plaza) outside Oakland City Hall. The SF Bay Area chapter will provide lunch for attendees staying for the March for Our Health. Please bring your own water bottle for the march. If you can't make these May 12 events, please contact us by email to find out how you can participate in our ongoing work in education and advocacy. Cordially, Jeff Gee, M.D. PNHP California pnhpca@pnhp.org Physicians for a National Health Program - California www.pnhp.org/states/california © 2016

Fwd: REMINDER: SB 562 CALIF Statewide Activist Call TOMORROW (3/21/18)! Sign Up Now to get Updates from the Nurses!

We wanted to make sure you got this important email below! Please sign up for this Spring statewide update from the Nurses on SB 562 and what the plan is to win Medicare for All in California! See below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------       Hundreds of you joined a statewide call in December to learn about the strategy to pass SB 562 and secure Medicare for All in California. Since then, we've continued to knock on doors, canvass at grocery stores and farmers markets, make phone calls, and more.    Since then we've also endured months of sham hearings from the Assembly Select Committee. A month ago, over 800 of us showed up in Sacramento to pack a key hearing in the Capitol.    Unsurprisingly, we're under attack in the media and by the Select Committee which just this week finally released a report with conclusions from their series of hearings. They called for "a variety of ways to lower health care costs and reduce the ranks of the uninsured" rather than the single payer system we so desperately need.      Join an important call next Wednesday, March 21st with the California Nurses Association for a strategy briefing on our plan to pass SB 562, and to learn how you can get involved to help us win Medicare for All in California. If you haven't gotten involved yet, don't worry -- this is a great chance to get started.    SB 562 Statewide Activist Call Wednesday, March 21st at 6:00 PM Sign up for the call now!   We know their patchwork, incremental proposals won't solve our healthcare crisis. We've said all along that the Select Committee was an attempt to stall actual progress on SB 562 -- and we were right. Now more than ever, we need to push back. Together, we can win this - but we have to keep the pressure on.   This is an important opportunity to get an update on strategy, organizing plans and your role in the campaign to pass SB 562 as we enter a new stage in the fight.   Please join us Wednesday, March 21st. The California Nurses Association will provide a strategy update on SB 562 and lay out our top priorities for the remainder of the legislative session.   We know they are feeling the heat. At the recent California Democratic Party Convention in San Diego, the Sacramento Bee reported that Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon had to avoid the convention and instead hold private meetings in his hotel because of "the nurses public shaming" on Medicare For All.    Thanks for everything you are doing. It's definitely making a difference.    Sincerely,   Holly Miller and Don Nielsen California Nurses Association   P.S. Already signed up? Forward this email to a friend or group!   UNSUBSCRIBE | www.CalNurses.org | www.MainStreetContract.org California Nurses Association | 155 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94612

CALIF - Select Committee report released & key upcoming events!

On Tuesday the Assembly Select Committee on Universal Healthcare released their report from months of hearings exposing our healthcare crisis and healthcare models from around the world. Unfortunately, but as expected, this report was used to dismiss SB 562 and instead promote various alternative healthcare proposals. We have answers to every critique of SB 562 and call for the bill to move forward to a committee hearing so we can have this debate and where, unlike the Select Committee, the bill could be amended, voted on and moved forward. We know SB 562 is the most comprehensive and effective way to control costs, save billions and guarantee a single standard of care to all in California. If we are to pass guaranteed healthcare for all, we need that work to start now and not be further delayed.  It's disappointing that our elected leaders are spending so much energy finding ways to do anything but pass guaranteed healthcare... but the best way to respond to these political maneuvers is for us to continue to the keep on the pressure! Join and mobilize for these events coming up! (And click here to add your zip code to find out events near you) Events: March 17th: Fix It Movie & Panel Discussion with nurses, business leaders and doctors speaking on the panel (Santa Rosa) March 28th: Labor Forum with LA Labor leaders and members (Los Angeles) May 12th: March for our Health (Oakland) Canvass & Petition Events: Saturday, March 17th Fresno 10am-2pm San Francisco 10am-12pm Sunday, March 18th Paramount 10am-2pm San Francisco 10am-12pm UNSUBSCRIBE | HealthyCA.org | info@healthycaliforniaact.org 770 L St, Ste 1480, Sacramento CA 95814

NoCal PNHP Bay Area chapter meeting, Sat. March 10 at 10am

Donate to PNHP / PNHP California PNHP - Bay Area Health care is a human right! February 28, 2018 Dear colleague, I hope you can attand our next chapter meeting. A reminder and agenda will follow. Please save the date. San Francisco Bay Area PNHP Chapter Meeting Saturday, March 10 10:00am - noon City College of San Francisco Multi-Use Building, Room 251 50 Phelan Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 Two blocks from Balboa Park BART station (map here) Cordially, Jeff Gee, M.D. PNHP California Physicians for a National Health Program - California www.pnhp.org/states/california © 2016