Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Save the Date
Public hearings on the state single payer bills, HB 1660 and SB 300 will be held on Wed. March 19 in Harrisburg. Place: The Pennsylvania Capitol, Majority Caucus Room, #140. Time: 10 AM. Mark your calendars now. It holds 250 and we would like every seat filled!
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Successful Single Payer Conference in Lancaster, PA
About 150 people across Pennsylvania gathered to hear business, providers, and legislators discuss the Family and Business Health Security Act (House Bill 1660 and Senate Bill 300).
Dr. Walter Tsou served as the keynote speaker with a packed half hour talk on the reasons why our current health care system has failed and why single payer is the best and only way of getting to universal health care at an affordable price.
Business leaders Charlie Crystle, Allen Jacobs, and Mike Stout and moderated by Dr. Scott Tyson gave strong personal experiences of how choices in picking health plans can profoundly limit choices for their employees and how rising costs are killing their businesses.
Health providers Dr. Bill Davidson, Gale Thomason, and Kate Loving Shenk and moderated by Dr. Linda Beckman gave testimony to the problems faced by their practices with the rising numbers of uninsured and the cost of medical care.
Legislative leaders Reps. Kathy Mandarino, Barbara McIlvaine Smith and Senate Candidate Cindy Purvis spoke about the issues faced by the legislature in passing a single payer plan. Rep. Mandarino says to be prepared to be in this fight for the long haul and that there will be public hearings probably this spring. She said it will not happen unless the general public is demanding it everywhere representatives go. Rep. McIlvaine Smith said that this fight has personally affected her own business and her health and that she strongly supports the bill. Senate Candidate Purvis said that her city of Erie spends $5 million more because of the excessive cost of health care over what they would pay under a single payer plan.
There was a lot of enthusiasm about this first state conference on single payer and we were both inspired and challenged by the work ahead.
Dr. Walter Tsou served as the keynote speaker with a packed half hour talk on the reasons why our current health care system has failed and why single payer is the best and only way of getting to universal health care at an affordable price.
Business leaders Charlie Crystle, Allen Jacobs, and Mike Stout and moderated by Dr. Scott Tyson gave strong personal experiences of how choices in picking health plans can profoundly limit choices for their employees and how rising costs are killing their businesses.
Health providers Dr. Bill Davidson, Gale Thomason, and Kate Loving Shenk and moderated by Dr. Linda Beckman gave testimony to the problems faced by their practices with the rising numbers of uninsured and the cost of medical care.
Legislative leaders Reps. Kathy Mandarino, Barbara McIlvaine Smith and Senate Candidate Cindy Purvis spoke about the issues faced by the legislature in passing a single payer plan. Rep. Mandarino says to be prepared to be in this fight for the long haul and that there will be public hearings probably this spring. She said it will not happen unless the general public is demanding it everywhere representatives go. Rep. McIlvaine Smith said that this fight has personally affected her own business and her health and that she strongly supports the bill. Senate Candidate Purvis said that her city of Erie spends $5 million more because of the excessive cost of health care over what they would pay under a single payer plan.
There was a lot of enthusiasm about this first state conference on single payer and we were both inspired and challenged by the work ahead.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
We have a PA House Single Payer Bill
We have a PA House Single Payer Bill, HR 1660. Thank you, Rep. Kathy Mandarino and the 28 other co sponsors of this groundbreaking legislation.
Please call your state representative and ask him/her to support this bill.
Please call your state representative and ask him/her to support this bill.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
State House single payer bill gathers cosponsors
From Chuck Pennachio, Exec Director of www.helpfundpa.org
Yes, folks, we have a House bill version of the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act" on the way to introduction. Thanks to the courage and vision of Rep. Kathy Mandarino (D, Phila), her circulation memo encouraging colleagues to co-sponsor FaBHCA is making the rounds as of this morning. That means we have approximately one week to lobby the State House to get as many co-sponsors as possible on the bill before its formal introduction. So get those phone calls and e-mails off to your representatives right away!
Click on the following for resources to locate and contact those House members already committed to the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act." But please reach out to ALL members. Additionally, the Capitol Hill switchboard number is 717.787.2121. For name and local contact info. go to www.congress.org and to state legislators; put in your zip code.
http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/legislators.htm
Working together we are saving our economy, liberating all our citizens from healthcare insecurity, and restoring sanity to a medical delivery system that is broken. Virtually all economists now agree that the only means to achieving all of the above is through legislation like our universal single-payer bill. See you on the campaign trail!
Yours in unity,
Chuck
Yes, folks, we have a House bill version of the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act" on the way to introduction. Thanks to the courage and vision of Rep. Kathy Mandarino (D, Phila), her circulation memo encouraging colleagues to co-sponsor FaBHCA is making the rounds as of this morning. That means we have approximately one week to lobby the State House to get as many co-sponsors as possible on the bill before its formal introduction. So get those phone calls and e-mails off to your representatives right away!
Click on the following for resources to locate and contact those House members already committed to the "Family and Business Healthcare Security Act." But please reach out to ALL members. Additionally, the Capitol Hill switchboard number is 717.787.2121. For name and local contact info. go to www.congress.org and to state legislators; put in your zip code.
http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/legislators.htm
Working together we are saving our economy, liberating all our citizens from healthcare insecurity, and restoring sanity to a medical delivery system that is broken. Virtually all economists now agree that the only means to achieving all of the above is through legislation like our universal single-payer bill. See you on the campaign trail!
Yours in unity,
Chuck
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