The Flea Off Market is a community showcase of artists, crafts persons, collectors, entrepreneurs, farmers, food trucks, musicians, and anybody who just wants to have a pop up “yard sale” with us. On April 19th the location will be  at TRELLIS BREWING 827 LOGAN ST., LOUISVILLE, KY 40204. Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare will have a Booth to promote  “Enhanced” Medicare for All that includes  everyone, from pre-natal to end of life. Come visit us from 11am-6pm. If you would like to volunteer, Register Here

To All Our Friends and Family,

Our community radio station, WFMP 106.5 FM, is about to turn 8 years old and to celebrate, we are throwing an amazing, fun-filled party to which you are invited (unless, of course, distance keeps you away).

But first, please consider donating right now while our Annual Pledge Drive is in full swing and help fortify us against those who would sell our frequency to the highest bidder.  We are all-volunteer, independent, and our mission is to engage and empower our local community with public interest programming and an open mic for community input.  Below is a graphic with our QR code for making a donation or use this link: https://tinyurl.com/6tsmpvvx

Now, back to the party.  We are so fortunate to have for a venue Maybe It’s Fate, an absolutely gorgeous artist cooperative at 1425 Story Ave. in Butchertown (and it’s handicap accessible!).  The fun begins at 5 pm and runs till 8 pm, this Saturday April 5th.  There’ll be live music, gourmet food, homemade birthday cake, two fabulous door prizes (a Weekend in Gatlinburg; and a glorious Ayurveda Day Retreat), and more.  Our featured guest speaker is Kentucky State Representative Nima Kulkarni, who is also an immigration attorney.  I hope you’ll come and enjoy the atmosphere, the people and the great lineup.

Our organization works hard to get these corporate vultures out of our Healthcare. Please join Us, get involved, talk to others, write to your congressional representatives. The Peoples Will is the only way to make it happen.

In a recent Single Payer Radio program, Kay Tillow, Harriette Seiler, Hamza Jamal, Evan Hawthorn, and Paul Hoppe of Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare discuss the poor ranking of our healthcare in this country based on a Commonwealth Fund report comparing 10 industrialized nations.

Goal: Compare health system performance in 10 countries, including the United States, to glean insights for U.S. improvement.

Methods: Analysis of 70 health system performance measures in five areas: access to care, care process, administrative efficiency, equity, and health outcomes.

Key Findings: The top three countries are Australia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, although differences in overall performance between most countries are relatively small. The only clear outlier is the U.S., where health system performance is dramatically lower.

Conclusion: The U.S. continues to be in a class by itself in the underperformance of its health care sector. While the other nine countries differ in the details of their systems and in their performance on domains, unlike the U.S., they all have found a way to meet their residents’ most basic health care needs, including universal coverage.