From SiCKO to Single Payer
Gray Panthers went to Sacramento June 12 to join thousands of nurses, school employees, seniors, and other health activists for the premier of Michael Moore’s movie SiCKO, and to hear moving testimony by Moore, a mom whose child died from Kaiser’s gate- keeping, an ex-Humana doctor horrified at her denial of heart surgery years ago, and an operator of a Los Angeles homeless shelter where HMOs dump uninsured patients.
From June 29th to July 13, SiCKO will be playing nationally, including several San Francisco theaters, and hundreds will be leafleting movie audiences to bring the message of single-payer and Medicare For All. Please call either 510-663-4086 or 415-695-7891 and leave your name, phone, and when you’d be available to be on a team of leafleters. You will be called back with details.
August 8 is San Francisco's day in the state-wide campaign of single-payer events. It's time to get insurance companies out of healthcare, and San Francisco's event will target Blue Shield. Blue Shield's CEO, Bruce Bodaken, is the architect of Schwarzenegger's awful healthcare plan. Half of last year's complaints to the state over denied services involved Blue Shield, and Blue Shield is the most aggressive insurer in claiming the right to cancel patients and deny their claims when they get sick. Location: 50 Beale Street in downtown San Francisco (2 blocks from Embarcadero BART, map). More information: 415-546-1336.
More about the August 8 event
For Single Payer Healthcare, Against the Health Insurance Companies
Single-Payer Healthcare Now! August 8 is San Francisco's day in the OneCareNow campaign to have 365 single-payer events over a year. More on the event. It's time to get insurance companies out of healthcare, and San Francisco's event will target Blue Shield. Blue Shield's CEO, Bruce Bodaken, is the architect of Schwarzenegger's current healthcare plan, having proposed it in 2002 . Half of last year's complaints to the state over denied services involved Blue Shield and Blue Shield is the most aggressive insurer in claiming the right to cancel patients and deny their claims when they get sick . Download flier for event. Location: 50 Beale Street in downtown San Francisco (2 blocks from Embarcadero BART, map ). More information: 415-546-1336.
See CNA site for guaranteed healthcare, not health insurance.