Health care events 2013

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3. The Labor Campaign for Single Payer; 2/28 Bellingham

The Labor Campaign for Single Payer

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7 pm
Longshoreman Rich Austin
St. Luke's Community Health Education Center
3333 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham WA


Rich Austin, President of the Pacific Coast Pensioners of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, will discuss why the federal health care law will not solve the American health care crisis and what Labor is doing to win a national single payer health care program that will cover everyone, eliminate medical bankruptcies and bring national health care costs under control.

A portion of his talk will be about the challenges the federal healthcare law brings to collective bargaining. He will speak about the January 11-13, 2013 Labor Campaign for Single Payer conference in Chicago. He will provide information on the broad coalition of single payer activists in the USA and their consensus on what needs to be done to win health care justice in our land. The exhortation of U.S. Representative John Conyers who said, "We must make some noise" will be an overriding theme of the talk.

He will cite evidence from studies initiated by organizations like Physicians for a National Health Program, California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, and the General Confederation of Labour - Federation of Social Security and Health Care Workers of France. and how those studies portend trouble for the U.S. health care system, even though the federal health care law, the Affordable Care Act, is now the law of the land.

Admission Free. Sponsored by United for National Healthcare. [phone], [email protected], http://www.unitedforhealthcare.org


Aileen Satushek
Board Member
United for National Healthcare
PO Box 2272
Bellingham, WA 98225 US