Health Care Now Rally and March Thursday 11/13

Attend HealthCare NOW’s rally and march calling for a national Single-Payer health care system. At the rally there will be a Phone-A-Thon supporting HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. Let’s get it passed.

One Nation, One Plan!
Thursday, November 13, 2008
4:00PM - 5:00PM Rally
Corner 42nd & 7th Ave
5:00PM March to GHI 34th St & 9th Ave

Thursday November 13th at 4:00 pm

New Yorkers will
gather at Bryant Park (42nd St. & 6th Ave.) to
demonstrate in favor of the creation of a Single-payer National Health Insurance Plan (H.R. 676). Today in America, more than 50 million people have no health insurance, 20 million more are under-insured and more than 20,000 people die each year of a treatable illness. In this moment of billion-dollar taxpayer “bailouts” for Corporate America, few people recognize that debts incurred as a result of medical procedures are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. H.R. 676 would end these destructive trends and secure healthcare as a human right.

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9/6 MON: non-profit & single-payer healthcare leafleting

Please join the Coalition Against Privatization at the Labor Day Parade, Saturday September 6, 2008 at 9:30am.

CAP members will be using the Labor Day Parade as an outreach opportunity to distribute leaflets to marchers and on-lookers about the for-profit conversion of GHI and HIP, as well as healthcare as a human right and single-payer bill HR 676. Join us for the festivities!

To help with this action, join CAP at 9:30am at the corner of 44th St. and 5th Ave. Parade begins at 10:00 am.

If you are able to go to this, please post about your experience.

Steve has a good post up about the NEST controversy in NYC. I'm out of that loop right now, but I feel like weighing in. The state of education in this country is at least half of the reason why we're in the mess we are today. It's time people understood that a little better. Read more…