'Scrubs for Sicko' Buses Arrive in Washington D.C.

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from KEYT, via MichaelMoore.com:


June 19th, 2007 8:29 pm
'Scrubs for Sicko' Buses Arrive in Washington D.C.
Carrying Nurses, Doctors on National Campaign in Conjunction with Debut of Michael Moore's Film to Spark Genuine Healthcare Reform

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WASHINGTON -- A colorfully-wrapped bus carrying nurses on a national tour to build momentum for the June 29 "Scrubs for Sicko" campaign arrives Tuesday night to bring their campaigning to Washington D.C. The bus will arrive at 5 p.m. at the Mayflower Hotel. Wednesday, the RNs will proceed to the Take Back America conference and a special hearing at the U.S. Capitol.

Planning to spark a fundamental change in national healthcare politics, an unprecedented national coalition of nurses and doctors organizations today announced plans to rally around the openings of Michael Moore's "SiCKO" June 29 to press the campaign for single-payer healthcare, guaranteeing comprehensive, quality healthcare with an expanded and improved Medicare for all. Two patients from the film are also touring with the groups on the bus to share their stories first hand.

Calling it the "Scrubs for Sicko" campaign, organizers will recruit registered nurses and doctors to every theater in the nation where "SiCKO" opens to ensure that caregivers -- in "SiCKO" scrubs -- are in the audience.

The caregivers will distribute information and urge moviegoers to join the drive for a fundamental overhaul of the nation's dysfunctional healthcare system -- as is so brilliantly described in "SiCKO." They will urge the audience to help pass single-payer/Medicare-for-all-type legislation such as HR 676 now pending in Congress and several states, and make it a central focus of the presidential campaign.

Nurses and doctors are serving as co-hosts of "SiCKO" premieres across the nation.

A delegation of nurses and doctors from across the country will embark on a tour of East Coast cities beginning today in New York to help energize the nurse grassroots. The tour will mostly take place in a colorfully-wrapped bus encouraging people to see the movie and is being planned in conjunction with premieres of the film in New York, Washington D.C., and other locales. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/news/article.php?id=9911

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