Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care invites you to join us to view the documentary film, “Fix It.”

The film by Vincent Mondillo and Richard Master examines the economics of the US healthcare system from the perspective of  business owners and makes a compelling case for scrapping our complex and  expensive multi-payer system for a single-payer, improved Medicare for  All.  Legislation that would enact such a solution, HR 676, has been introduced into Congress by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan.  There are currently 60 cosponsors of HR 676 including Kentucky Congressman John  Yarmuth.

The filmmakers state:  “This documentary takes an  in-depth look into how our dysfunctional health care system is damaging our economy, suffocating our businesses, discouraging physicians and negatively impacting on the nation’s health, while remaining un-affordable for a third of  our citizens.”

The nonpartisan film includes interviews with some of the nation’s  leading health policy experts like Dr. Don Berwick, former administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Dr. Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy at Yale University.

Richard Master, CEO, of MCS  Industries, Inc. in eastern Pennsylvania, notes that his company now has to pay  $1.5 million a year to provide health care for his company’s workers and  dependents but that 33 cents of every premium dollar has nothing to do with health care.  He states:  “We spend more on health care than any other country, and we have far less to show for it.  More than 17% of our  national GDP is now eaten up by health care costs, far more than any other country.”

The filmmakers interview Dann Konkin, president of a Canadian industrial screen printing company who decided against opening a facility in the U. S. after finding out how much he would have to pay to provide health insurance.

Master concludes, “It is time we realize we don’t have to tolerate a system–a $3 trillion system–in which one of three dollars is wasted.  A  system in which just a few sick employees can take down a company.  A  system that starves the rest of our economy to the point that we don’t have enough money for our schools and roads.  Please join me and many others in the fight for a simplified, single-payer health care system.”

More details on the website “Fix It” www.fixithealthcare.com.

On January 5, 2016, in the Rotunda in the Capitol in Frankfort, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care joined with organizations across the state to press for voting rights, workers’ rights, fairness, economic and racial justice, and healthcare. The rally was organized by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.   L to R Jill Harmer, Kay Tillow, Harriette Seiler.

Harriette Seiler was on the WAVE 3 evening news saying that even small co-pays can keep a parent from taking a sick child to the doctor.

You can watch her here.  The interview begins shortly after 2:10.

Kentucky’s new Governor Matt Bevin has threatened to make Kentucky’s Medicaid more like Indiana’s–meaning that there will be more financial barriers to care if that happens.

HR 676, national single payer health care, has no deductibles, no co-pays, no coinsurance.  It will end rationing by ability to pay!

On Sat. Dec. 5, 2015, Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care celebrated the new Abraham Lincoln Bridge across the Ohio River by sharing information on single payer health care.  The flyers offer free presentations and invite the public to our meetings.  Harriette Seiler with the hot pink flyer.

Our new bridge between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana.  The is not the first time that KSPH has marched across the Ohio.  Many years ago we walked across the Clark Memorial Bridge on Second Street when we were kicking off the fight to place single payer into health care reform.   Later when the Mad as Hell Doctors visited us during their cross country journey, KSPH marched across the Second Street Bridge again.  Thanks to the imagination of David Ross Stevens, that time we stepped off to the sound of the Churchhill Downs bugler playing “Call to the Post.”

KSPH keeps working to get the nation to the other side of universal health care where everyone enjoys all necessary care and profits are forbidden.  Single Payer.  HR 676.  Worth the long walk.  Join us to build the movement!

The figures are shocking but true.  The research has been done by former Surgeon General David Satcher and Dr. Adewale Troutman, Louisville’s dynamic former health department head.

Please read the flyer at the link below, and join with us in building the single payer movement.

king celebration Leaflet 2015

Join us for a free public showing of “The Healthcare Movie.”

Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland, the movie features Canadians telling what they think about their single payer health care system.

Southwest Regional Library

9725 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Kentucky 40272, (502) 933-0029

Followed by Q & A and discussion.

Sponsored by Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care (502) 636-1551

On Friday, October 30, 2015, 400 physicians, medical students, nurses, and single payer activists rallied in downtown Chicago calling for an end to private insurance and the passage of Improved Medicare for All, HR 676.  The demonstration focused on the Blue Cross/Blue Shield offices at 300 E. Randolph.

Medical students and physicians who were attending a Physicians for a National Health Program leadership training met at Chicago’s “bean” prior to marching to the rally.

Tom Conway, International Vice President of the United Steelworkers addressed the rally telling of steel and other companies that are shifting health care costs to workers and refusing to cover retirees at all.  Thousands of workers are currently locked out of their jobs, as corporations try to force concessions on health care and other issues.