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Working to promote single payer health care in Kentucky.
Dr. Margaret Flowers to Speak in Louisville
Link to article by Margaret Flowers in FORsooth.
Download flyer for the Public Event Oct 4: Flowers Public Flyer08_26_18(3) for FoRsooth
Stand Up for Improved Medicare for All, HR 676, & for Humana Workers, Fri. Oct. 5, 4 pm, 500 W. Main, Louisville
October 5 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Join Dr. Carol Paris, President of Physicians for a National Health Program, and Dr. Margaret Flowers, nationally known single payer expert and advocate, in a demonstration for Improved Medicare for All, HR 676,and to let Humana workers know that HR 676 secures a future for them as well.
Drs. Flowers and Paris will speak, and we will distribute information to the public and to Humana employees.
Humana workers: We’ve Got Your Back! Improved Medicare for All, HR 676!
Further details.
“Fix It” Film Shown in Lexington, Followed by Lively Discussion
On Thursday, September 13, Kentuckians for Single Payer
Health Care presented a showing of “Fix It–Health Care at the Tipping Point,” a film that features the human and financial costs of our current health care system and explains how HR 676, national single payer health care legislation, would resolve the crisis.
KSPH will bring this program to your community anywhere in Kentucky. Just email us at nursenpo@aol.com.
Fix It, Single Payer Movie, a Hit in Bowling Green
On Aug. 28 Charlie Casper, Dr. Barbara Casper, and Dr. Edgar Lopez traveled to Bowling Green to show the film “Fix It.” This 38 minute documentary explains our health care problem, its human and financial cost, and details the single payer solution in HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will bring “Fix It” to your neck of the woods. Just let us know. 602 636 1551. nursenpo@aol.com
Single Payer Popular at Labor Day at the Zoo
Mike Carrick, Dr. Edgar Lopez, Antonio Wilson, Larry Hovekamp, and Kay Tillow staffed the Single Payer Booth at the Zoo on Labor Day. Many stopped to talk of health care problems and to sign the petition in support of HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All. Enthusiasm is growing for the single payer solution.
Thanks to the Greater Louisville Central Labor Council!
Listen to Bob Cunningham and Dr. Garrett Adams on Single Payer Radio
Bob Cunningham (L), renowned Louisville civil rights activist, and Dr. Garrett Adams (R), founder of Physicians for a National Health Program in Kentucky, discuss single payer health care. Click here to listen.
“Fix It” Movie & Panel Discussion, Lexington Library, 7 pm, Thur. Sep. 13, 2018
A film that looks at our nation’s health care crisis and proposes the solution, a national improved Medicare for All, single payer system that covers all of us while saving lives and money!
Open to the public. Come and bring your friends!
Further info: Christine Perlin, christine.perlin at gmail.com
Single payer at the Park DuValle Community Health Center Fair
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care is reaching out, talking to people, and building the movement!
On Saturday, Aug. 4, KSPH staffed a booth at the health fair at the Park DuValle CHC.
Peg Box reports that “there were a lot of tents and many people with families, and we were right next to the band which was good but LOUD. We even got to watch a demonstration of line dancing.”
Of the people who stopped by our booth “many already were advocates of single payer and had a lot of good things to say and stories to share.”
“In spite of the heat and torrid sun on the asphalt, the crowds were good, and we had many signing the petition,” said Charlie Casper. “Most were Medicaid recipients. This event is good exposure for single payer, maybe for just name exposure if nothing else.”
For those who did not know about HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All, this was their opportunity to learn.
The Park DuValle Community Health Center is federally funded and serves the community filling in the gaps to help those our broken health system abandons.
New Prospects for Single-Payer Activists: Swimming in the Mainstream . . . With Sharks
by Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H and David U. Himmelstein, M.D.
The answers to the attacks on single payer:
- *Won’t single payer break the bank?
- *Why not a public option?
- *Why not the German, Swiss, or Dutch reform keeping private insurers?
- *Why not incremental reforms; Won’t single payer be too disruptive?
http://www.pnhp.org/slideshow/2017AM/HealthPolicyUpdate001.pdf
Save the Date, Thursday. October. 4, 2018. Margaret Flowers MD to Speak in Louisville
Please save the date for you will not want to miss this!
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will host an event:
7 pm, Thursday, October 4, 2018, at Hotel Louisville, 120 W. Broadway, Louisville 40202
Margaret Flowers MD will be the featured speaker. Dr. Flowers is one of the Baucus 8, the physicians, nurses and others who were arrested in Senator Max Baucus’ Finance Committee Hearing for seeking to get single payer health care on the agenda.
You can see her on Bill Moyers Journal in the video below.
