Stop Feeding the Health Insurance Monster and Fix our Deficit!

The only solution to our budget deficit is single payer, national health insurance plan which cuts out the for profit, private insurance industry who literally take hundreds of billions off the top for themselves and forcing 50 million Americans to be without health insurance. America spends 50% more per capita than Canada does on health care. What is the difference? Canada has a balanced budget for the past decade. America’s deficit is $13 trillion dollars. Canada can control health care costs. America’s health care costs are bankrupting our country. Canada has single payer. America does not. Go figure!

You can stand up against this waste of taxpayer dollars by demanding that we stop subsidizing the for-profit, private health insurance industry and institute a single payer system, similar to HR 676. (www.healthcare-now.org).  In Pennsylvania, ask your representatives to support HB 1660 or SB 400, the Family and Business Health Security Act, which would institute a single payer health plan in Pennsylvania. Governor Rendell has stated he would sign the bill if it is passed. (www.healthcare4allpa.org).

Come to our teach-in on July 17, 1-4 PM, ABC Brew Pub, 2nd floor, 50 N. Cameron St, Harrisburg, PA

Rally for state single payer health care: Oct. 20

Time for Pennsylvania to get single payer and lead the Nation to a better health system.

Come Join Us!

Rally and Lobby at the Capitol in Harrisburg

for The Family and Business Healthcare Security Act

Support Single Payer Healthcare for All Pennsylvanians

House Bill 1660,  Senate Bill 400

Tuesday, October 20, 2009-10 to Noon

Featured Speakers include: Wendell Potter, Senator Jim Ferlo, Rep Kathy Manderino

Patti Eakins of PASNAP, Donna Smith, Chuck Pennacchio, Walter Tsou, MD, PNHP

Take the Bus with Us.  Bus arrangements from Philadelphia can be found by clicking here.  
$25 roundtrip.

Bus from NW corner City Ave & Belmont behind Chiliʼs--7:30am depart --$25, return around 5 PM.

Other options--call Joan @ 215-242-4057

or email questions to hcap.members@gmail.com

Sicko discussion

Yesterday, we had a Sicko discussion at the Penn Newman Center. To our delight, we had about 30 or more people who came to hear Dr. Walter Tsou talk about the moral AND economic arguments for single payer and HR 676. Later, Chuck Pennachio spoke about the arguments for HB 1660 and SB 300, the Family and Business Health Security Act which would provide a single payer program in Pennsylvania. There was a spirited discussion mostly around people's impression about the movie, about responses to critics of single payer, and about the need for local organization around the single payer effort. In that last regard, the Phila Area Committee to Defend Health Care has been a leader in the Philly area for single payer health care for many years and it was a welcome addition to use Sicko as a way of inspiring others to join us. If you are interested, come to our meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 - 9 PM, Penn Newman Center, 3720 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Send a note to phillyhc4all@aol.com