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Healthcare-Now of Maryland holds its annual meeting and public forum, Thursday, January 28th, 7:15 PM, at the Diocesan Center, Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Featured speaker is Mark Dudzic, former President of Local 8-149 OCAW (now Local 1-148 PACE) and an active Labor Pary National Organizer. Instrumental in securing an endorsement for single-payer at the national convention of the AF of L/ CIO, he will speak on the why’s and how’s of labor support for single-payer. The event is free and open to the public
with free, ample parking. The Diocesan Center is located at 6 E. University Parkway in Baltimore. (Enter the parking lot from N. Charles St.) For more information, email info@mdsinglepayer.org.
Friends of single-payer are invited for a full day of interactive workshops with nationally known single payer advocates on Saturday, February 20th for the MARYLAND SINGLE PAYER LEADERSHIP TRAINING from 9 am to 3 pm at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045.
Meet other Maryland Single payer Activists! Get vital training and materials to be a more active advocate for single payer! Workshops include: How to explain single payer and how it will solve our health care crisis, build coalitions, interact with legislators, get media attention and hold single payer events. You will be given written materials and sample powerpoint presentations. Speakers include: Dr. Carol Paris (PNHP*, Baucus 8), Mark Dudzic (Labor for Single Payer, Baucus 8), Chuck Pennacchio (Healthcare
for all PA), Donna Smith (California Nurses Assoc.), Dr. Andy Coates (PNHP, Single Payer NY) and Dr. Margaret Flowers (PNHP, Baucus 8).
For more information or to RSVP (if you want materials) contact Margaret Flowers at mdpnhp@gmail.com or 410-591-0892. There is no registration fee (donations accepted). Sponsored by Maryland chapter *Physicians for a National Health Program and Healthcare-Now of Maryland. www.md.pnhp.org and www.mdsinglepayer.org
Please write to your elected representative in the U.S. House of
Representatives to urge them to support two amendments to the health
care bill: (1) The Weiner Amendment which would substitute a single
payer system based on HR 676 which has 86 co-sponsors. This bill will
be submitted on the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in
September or October. (2) The Kucinich Amendment which would make it
easier for state's to enact their own single payer legislation. This
amendment was included in HR 3200 but there are efforts to have it removed.
In order to send the letter click:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/9277/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1355.
This will bring you to a draft letter which you can send, edit or modify.
Please contribute to the “Economic Impact Study” on single-payer healthcare in Maryland.* To do so, make checks to Healthcare-Now
of Md, and write “Study” at the left side bottom of the check. Mail checks to Healthcare-Now of Md., c/o 115 Springside Dr., Timonium, Md. 21093. Or click on "Make a $ Contribution" to the left and then "Donate." And then email info@mdsinglepayer.org that contribution is for
the Economic Impact Study. Contributions are not tax deductible. *The projected study by the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research will examine the economic effects of single-payer healthcare in Maryland and is expected to show single-payer’s enormous benefits. For questions about and more information about the survey, email enaumburg@hotmail.org or call 443-562-6562.
*HR 676: Healthcare-Now of Maryland supports this Congressional resolution for single payer, The US National Health Insurance Act
(" Expanded and Improved Medicare for All" ). The principal sponsor is John Conyers of Michigan.
There are 85 co-sponsors,
including Congresswoman Donna Edwards (4th District) and Congressman
Elijah Cummings (7th District).
For
more information and to sign the petition go to www.healthcare-now.org
As dust settles on so-called Healthcare reform in 2009, now more than ever the word about single-payer needs to reach the citizens of Maryland. Healthcare-Now of Maryland provides speakers for groups anywhere within the state—community associations, union locals, religious organizations, etc. Our speakers include activists and doctors and healthcare workers. For more information or to schedule a speaker, email info@mdsinglepayer.org.
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