Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Jan. 17, 2019, 5:30pm, Library, 301 York, with Journal Club at 6:30 pm
2019-01-17 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care Meeting
Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Mezzanine
Louisville Free Public Library
301 York
Journal Club at 6:30 PM
From 6:30 pm to 7 pm, Sarah Parker will lead us in a discussion of the marketing of the private Medicare Advantage plans by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is the government agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid.

Please read in advance the article to be discussed at this link: Trump Admin. Peppers Inboxes with Plugs for Private Medicare Plans https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/01/us/politics/trump-medicare-advantage-plans.html

For those who are too far away to attend the meeting, you can click on this link at 6:30 pm on Thur. Jan. 17 and see the materials and the discussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6gZG_pKYA

Those watching the live stream will be able to interact via comments left on the video.

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SNaHP Hosts Panel Discussion, Mon. Jan. 28, 2019, 12 Noon, 102 Instructional Bldg.
2019-01-28 12:00 - 13:00
The University of Louisville Students for a National Health Program will host a panel discussion:

12 Noon
Monday, Jan. 28, 2019
102 Instructional Building
U of L Medical School
500 S. Preston
Louisville 40202

Panelists: Dr. Wayne Tuckson, Dr. Karen Berg, Dr. Charles Kodner

Invited: Dr. Barbara Casper, Ann Hagan-Grigsby, Sen. Morgan McGarvey

Further info: Sarah Parker, SNaPH President: srpark04@louisville.edu
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Feb. 7, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-02-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care Meeting:
Thur. Feb. 7, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library
301 York
Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Memorial Celebration for Thomas Moffett, Sun. Feb. 10, 3-5pm, First Unitarian Church
2019-02-10 15:00 - 17:00
Tom Moffett at the sit in at Humana to demand an end to the denial of care.
The Social Justice Movment invites you to attend a Celebration of the Life of Thomas Moffett.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
3 to 5 PM
First Unitarian Church
809 S. 4th St., Louisville 40203
This event is sonsored by: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care (KSPH), Grace Hope Presbyterian Chuch, Park DuValle Community Health Center, Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice (LSURJ), Louisville Chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), and the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Read about Tom in Louisville Magazine: https://www.louisville.com/content/man-in-the-red-sweater

Tom gave much of the strength of his final years to advocating for single payer health care.

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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Feb. 21, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-02-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care Meeting:
Thur. Feb. 21, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library
301 York
Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. March 7, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-03-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet:
Thursday, March 7, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St.
Everyone welcome!

KSPH meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.
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March with Single Payer in the St. Pat's Parade, Sat. March 9, 2019, 3 pm
2019-03-09 15:00 - 17:00
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will carry the banner and distribute information at the Louisville St. Pat’s Parade. The parade begins on Broadway near Baxter and continues on Bardstown Road to the Mid City Mall.
Line up begins at 2 pm.
KSPH is #100. We are in the purple area on Broadway in the first couple of blocks from Baxter.
Parade steps off at 3 pm.
Join us. Let us know if you can be with us. Kay 636 1551

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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. March 21, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-03-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet:
Thursday, March 21, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St.
At our KSPH meeting on Thursday, March 21, we will use the last half hour (6:30 to 7 pm) for our Journal Club. The topic is “The Public Option and the Medicare Buy In.”
Here are the items to read:
The Public Option
https://pnhp.org/system/assets/uploads/2018/06/sp_vs_publicoption.pdf
The Medicare Buy In
https://pnhp.org/2009/12/09/medicare-buy-in/
Hope you can be there and participate. (The regular meeting begins at 5:30.)

Kay Tillow
502 636 1551
Everyone welcome!
KSPH meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. April 4, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-04-04 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care meeting.
Thur. April 4, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the second floor
301 York
Everyone welcome.

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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. April 18, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-04-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care meeting.
Thur. April 18, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the second floor
301 York
Everyone welcome.
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May 2, 2019, Meeting Cancelled Due to Derby Parade
2019-05-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will NOT meet on Thur. May 2, 2019 because of the Derby Parade. Experience has taught us that it is impossible to park anywhere near the library on the afternoon of the parade, so we have cancelled the meeting.
The next single payer meeting will be on
Thursday, May 16 at 5:30 pm in the Board Room, second floor, of the Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, downtown Louisville.
Everyone welcome.
We meet the first and third Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.

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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. May 16, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-05-16 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on
Thursday, May 16 at 5:30 pm in the Board Room, second floor, of the Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, downtown Louisville.
Everyone welcome.
We meet the first and third Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. June 6, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York,
2019-06-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, June 6, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome.

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Protest AMA campaign to stop Medicare for All, Sat. June 8, 2019, Chicago
2019-06-08 13:30 - 15:30 | Unnamed Venue, IL
On Saturday, June 8, 2019, at 1:30 PM CST at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Headquarters, 300 E. Randolph St. in Chicago, students, physicians, nurses, unions, and single payer activists from around the country will unite to protest the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (A.M.A.).
The action was initiated by Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP), the medical student affiliate of Physicians for a National Health Program. The All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care is among a broad range of co-sponsors of the event.
The AMA has joined with the leading insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital companies to form the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future to campaign against national single payer health care.
The June 8 Action will call on the AMA to withdraw from this corporate front group.
From the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Headquarters the demonstrators will march to the Hyatt Regency Chicago at 151 E. Wacker Dr., to call on the American Medical Association to stop actively campaigning against Medicare for All, which 55% of physicians and the vast majority of people in the US support.
The AMA’s opposition to Medicare is longstanding.
In 1968, Dr. Sidney Wolfe, co-founder and director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, politely and briefly took over a microphone at the American Medical Association’s national meeting because of the A.M.A.’s opposition to the right to health care.
Fifty-one years later, the A.M.A., along with its well-financed corporate partners in the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, is still leading the charge against universal, single-payer health care, also known as Medicare for All.
There is a brief video of Dr. Sidney Wolfe at this link.
The website for the event is here and the facebook page is here.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/5/1862837/-June-8-2019-Protest-against-the-AMA-s-opposition-to-Improved-Medicare-for-All
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Distributed by:
Kay Tillow, Coordinator
All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care–HR 676
P. O. Box 17595
Louisville, KY 40217
(502) 636 1551
Email: nursenpo@aol.com
http://unionsforsinglepayer.org
https://www.facebook.com/unionsforsinglepayer
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. June 20, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-06-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, June 20, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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No meeting on July 4, 2019, Library will be closed.
2019-07-04 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at 5:30 pm at the Louisville Free Public Library, Board Room, second floor, 301 York, downtown Louisville.
But there will be no meeting on July 4, 2019. The library will be closed for celebration of Independence Day.

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Single Payer Meeting, Thur. July 18, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-07-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, July 18, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Aug. 1, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-08-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Aug. 15, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-08-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Sep. 5, 2019, 5:30 pm, LFPL, 301 York
2019-09-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Sep. 5, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Sep. 19, 2019, 5:30 pm, LFPL, 301 York
2019-09-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Sep. 19, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Oct. 3, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-10-03 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York, Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
We meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.
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Single Payer Mtg., Thur. Oct. 17, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-10-17 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on:
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019
5:30 pm
Board Room on the Second Floor
Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Downtown Louisville
Everyone welcome!
We meet on the first and third Thursdays of each month, same time, same place.
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Wed. Oct. 23, 2019, 12 noon: Professor Gerald Friedman in Discussion with U of L health professional students and faculty: “Medicare for All--What future physicians need to know”
2019-10-23 12:00 - 13:00
U of L Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) has scheduled an on campus event with Professor Gerald Friedman to discuss “Medicare for All–What future physicians need to know.”
Wed. Oct. 23, 2019
12 Noon
U of L Medical School Instructional Building, 500 S. Preston, Louisville
Gerald Friedman, PhD, Professor of Economics at U Mass, Amherst
Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Gerald Friedman was born in New York City in 1955. After graduation from Columbia College in 1977 he worked on the research staff of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union before moving to Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend graduate school at Harvard, where he earned a Ph.D. in Economics in 1986. Since 1984, he has taught Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently working on a book, The Case for Medicare for All (Polity Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Friedman has studied the funding of a national single payer health care system and concluded that an improved Medicare for All would save billions in addition to bringing health care to everyone.
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Thur. Oct. 24, 2019, 8 am, Grand Rounds, U of L Department of Medicine: “Medicare for All - What physicians need to know”, Ambulatory Care Building, 550 S. Jackson St.
2019-10-24 08:00 - 08:45
Thursday, October 24, 2019
8:00 to 8:45 am
Speaker: Economist Gerald Friedman, PhD
Grand Rounds, U of L Department of Medicine: “Medicare for All – What physicians need to know”
Ambulatory Care Building auditorium, located on the lower level of the ACB on the University of Louisville Health Sciences Center campus.
550 S. Jackson St,
Professor Gerald Friedman earned his BA in economics and history from Columbia University and his Ph. D. from Harvard University. He is currently teaching at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has studied and written extensively on the funding of improved Medicare for All, single-payer systems.
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Physicians for a National Health Program
July 31, 2013
Upgrading the nation’s Medicare program and expanding it to cover people of all ages would yield over a half-trillion dollars in efficiency savings in its first year of operation, enough to pay for high-quality, comprehensive health benefits for all residents of the United States at a lower cost to most individuals, families and businesses.
That’s the chief finding of a new fiscal study by Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There would even be money left over to help pay down the national debt, he said.
Friedman says his analysis shows that a nonprofit single-payer system based on the principles of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and co-sponsored by 44 other lawmakers, would save an estimated $592 billion in 2014. That would be more than enough to cover all 44 million people the government estimates will be uninsured in that year and to upgrade benefits for everyone else.
“No other plan can achieve this magnitude of savings on health care,” Friedman said. More
Gerald Friedman, PhD, Professor of Economics at U Mass, Amherst

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Gerald Friedman to speak at W. Chestnut Baptist Church, 12 N, Thur. Oct. 24, 2019
2019-10-24 12:00 - 13:30
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 25, 1966
Yet 53 years after Dr. King spoke those words, our country still suffers over 83,000 excess deaths each year among African Americans–deaths that would not happen if there were equality.
Our country’s health system leaves tens of millions of all colors without health insurance or with insurance so skimpy they cannot afford to use it.
The U. S. lags behind the rest of the industrialized world in health care—56th in infant mortality and 43rd in life expectancy. Our people deserve better.
The good news is that there is a solution.
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Come hear economics professor Gerald Friedman, the nation’s leading economist on single payer health care, explain how the U. S. could cover everyone with excellent care while still saving money.
“Medicare for All Means Health Equity for All”
Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, 12 Noon,
West Chestnut Street Baptist Church
1725 W. Chestnut St.
(Parking in lot behind the church, lot entrance on Madison between 17th and 18th)
Gerald Friedman, PhD, Professor of Economics at U Mass, Amherst
Light refreshments
Please RSVP by email to ajwickliffe@aol.com
This event was organized by Bob Cunningham, Antonio Wickliffe, and Rev. Ron Robinson and sponsored by Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care.
Also, at 7 pm on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, Professor Friedman will be speaking on “The Economic Case for Medicare for All” at the First Unitarian Church, 809 S. 4th St. near 4th & York, entrance in the rear.
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A free program for your church or other organization on this topic is available: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care (502) 636-1551, nursenpo@aol.com, www.kyhealthcare.org, www.pnhp.org. labor donated
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Thur. Oct. 24, 7 pm, First Unitarian Church: "The Economic Case for Medicare for All"
2019-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 | First Unitarian Church, 809 S. 4th St., Louisville, KY 40203
Hear Economics Professor Gerald Friedman, Ph.D., speak on the funding of a national single payer, improved Medicare for All, health care plan.

Gerald Friedman, PhD, Professor of Economics at U Mass, Amherst
Thursday, October 24, 2019
7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church
809 S. 4th St., Louisville 40203

Professor Friedman was a Phi Beta Kappa member and Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia University. He obtained his doctorate from Harvard University, where he received a Certificate of Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
He has written extensively on the funding of single payer health care systems.

In his study “Funding HR 676: The Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act — How we can afford a national single-payer health plan,” he outlines the costs and benefits of Rep. John Conyers’ national single-payer legislation.

He has provided expert testimony in the US Senate on his study of the financial analysis of single payer national health insurance.
Sponsored by: Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care, PO Box 17595, Louisville, KY 40217, www.kyhealthcare.org, nursenpo@aol.com, 502 636 1551,
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Fri. Oct. 25, 2019, 8 am, Grand Rounds, U of L Dept. of Family Medicine and Geriatrics: "Medicare for All - What physicians need to know"
2019-10-25 08:00 - 08:45
Grand Rounds
U of L Department of Family Medicine and Geriatrics:
“Medicare for All – What physicians need to know”
Speaker: Economist Gerald Friedman, PhD
Friday, October 25, 2019,
8:00 m
Bottigheimer Auditorium, Jewish Hospital, 200 Abraham Flexner Way
Professor Gerald Friedman earned his BA in economics and history from Columbia University and his Ph. D. from Harvard University. He is currently teaching at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has studied and written extensively on the funding of improved Medicare for All, single-payer systems.
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Friedman analysis of HR 676: Medicare for All would save billions
‘Medicare for All’ would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study

Physicians for a National Health Program
July 31, 2013
Upgrading the nation’s Medicare program and expanding it to cover people of all ages would yield over a half-trillion dollars in efficiency savings in its first year of operation, enough to pay for high-quality, comprehensive health benefits for all residents of the United States at a lower cost to most individuals, families and businesses.
That’s the chief finding of a new fiscal study by Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There would even be money left over to help pay down the national debt, he said.
Friedman says his analysis shows that a nonprofit single-payer system based on the principles of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and co-sponsored by 44 other lawmakers, would save an estimated $592 billion in 2014. That would be more than enough to cover all 44 million people the government estimates will be uninsured in that year and to upgrade benefits for everyone else.
“No other plan can achieve this magnitude of savings on health care,” Friedman said. More

Gerald Friedman, PhD, Professor of Economics at U Mass, Amherst
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Nov. 7, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on
Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019
5:30 pm
Louisville Free Public Library, Board Rm. on the Second Floor,
301 York St.
Louisville
Everyone welcome.
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Single Payer Mtg. Thur. Nov. 21, 2019, 5:30 pm, Library, 301 York
2019-11-21 17:30 - 19:00 | Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St., Louisville, KY
Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care will meet on
Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019
5:30 pm
Louisville Free Public Library, Board Rm. on the Second Floor,
301 York St.
Louisville
Everyone welcome.
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