On Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, Garrett Adams, MD, founder of Physicians for a National Health Program–KY, delivered the message at the Thomas Jefferson Unitarian Church in Louisville. The church featured the event in advance, and the attendance was larger than usual.
![Garrett smiling along with the pumpkin.](http://kyhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1875.jpg)
The children paraded with their Halloween outfits, and a pianist, violinist, and choir added music to the celebration.
A number of people spoke in solidarity with the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue that had so recently suffered a massive, hate-filled shooting.
![The sign outside the church.](http://kyhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1866.jpg)
Garrett delivered a hopeful message centered on the statistics showing majority physician and popular support for a health care plan that will cover everyone, be federally financed, be free of premiums, co-pays, and deductibles, and include all medically necessary care–an improved Medicare for All.
![A member of the Unitarian congregation speaks in costume of having heart: The giraffe is a heart symbol because it takes a powerful heart to circulate the blood up that long neck.](http://kyhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1887.jpg)
He told of the tragedy of the 30,000 who die each year needlessly because of a lack of insurance.
He included the story of Clay Morgan, a Henry County farmer and auto mechanic who took his own life rather than impoverish his family with the costs of a recurring cancer. “Statistics are people with the tears wiped dry,” he said.
![Unitarians listening to the single payer sermon.](http://kyhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1890.jpg)
He ended on a positive note that people can be more powerful than the corporations that seek to hold back progress in order to make profits in health care.
![Dr. Garrett Adams "preaching" at the Unitarian Church](http://kyhealthcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_1885.jpg)
He encouraged activism to make it happen. “Power concedes nothing without a demand–without struggle there is no progress,” said Dr. Adams, concluding with the wisdom of Frederick Douglass.