March 10th at 11 a.m. Demonstrate for HR 676
The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care will be organizing activists to meet and rally in front of the AHIP Conference. There is no regulating the industry that puts profits before health. Join activists to demand real health care reform. HR 676: Single Payer Now. For more information, contact Donna Smith, donnas@calnurses.org
March 11th at 10 a.m. Burn your Health Insurance Bill Day
Single Payer Action, a newly formed group planning direct actions supporting single-payer will gather at 10am at the Ritz Carlton. At the demonstration, some will burn health insurance bills. It will be a symbolic act. Single payer legislation (HR 676) will effectively make it a crime to sell basic health insurance for profit. Single payer will be the equivalent of the death penalty for health insurance corporations as they exist. So, pass the word. Bring your health insurance bills. Matches provided. For more information, write russellmokhiber@gmail.com
Peace and Justice,
Healthcare-NOW!
http://www.healthcare-now.org
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Also on March 10th: Energy and Commerce Committee Announces First in Series of Hearings on Making Healthcare Work for American Families.
WASHINGTON, DC —Chairman Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Frank Pallone announced that the first in a series of health reform hearings the Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold over the next several months will be held on Tuesday, March 10, 2009. The first hearing will explore options for making the health system work better and for designing a high performing healthcare system.
“This is a year of decision on health care for all Americans and, in partnership with President Obama, we must not let this opportunity pass,” said Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. “Making health care work for American families means achieving, at long last, our goal of affordable, high quality, universal coverage. All three elements are essential, and we will not solve any one of those fundamental issues without resolving all of them together by bringing into existence a high performing healthcare system.”
“Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are ready to work with President Obama to enact health care reform legislation this year,” said Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health. “Next week, we will take an important step towards reform by beginning the process of holding hearings. It is my hope that this will lead to the creation of a health care system that improves the quality of care, lowers costs and provides universal coverage for hardworking American families.”
WHAT: Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “Making Healthcare Work for American Families: Designing a High Performing Healthcare System”
WHEN: 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 10
WHERE: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building
The hearing will be webcast at http://www.energycommerce.house.gov
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