Health Care Rally Today

Here’s the details. I saw them making posters in the SJC conference room yesterday, not know knowing that Linda Farley had passed away, I often saw here there with that very same group.

Health Care Demonstration Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at Noon, City-County Building

Contact: Ron Biendseil, rbiend@charter.net
PH: 608-836-1920 CELL: 608-712-6831

The citizens’ action group Organizing for America/Dane County Grassroots Network will conduct a demonstration in support of single-payer health care on June 10 at noon on the steps of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., in Madison. The group is concerned that neither the Obama administration nor Congressional Democrats are giving serious consideration to a universal health care plan that includes a public single payer option that would compete with private insurers.

Speakers will include members of the medical and health care community as well as individuals whose lives are affected by lack of adequate health care.

The Madison chapter of the international social action group, The Raging Grannies, will perform.

OFA/Dane County Grassroots Network believes that health care for all is a right, not a privilege and should not be a commodity to be purchased by only those who can afford it. The group advocates for a single-payer, government funded health-care system much like the present Medicare system. The single-payer approach is
(1) The only reform proposal to date that would provide truly universal coverage; and
(2) The most efficient and cost-effective means of delivery of health care.

Various reputable national polls over the past year have consistently shown that almost 60 percent of the population in the U.S. prefers a single-payer system. These polls demonstrate that the public both
(1) Understands that that a fundamental injustice inheres in the denial of health-care coverage to 45 million people in a country as wealthy as the U.S.; and
(2) Has lost faith in a system in which big insurance companies profit by denying proper care to the insured.

Health care should be a basic civil right, not a source of profit for insurance companies.