Date: March 4th 2009

SAVE OUR ECONOMY WITH HEALTH CARE REFORM

Come find out how a single payer health care system,
our only affordable option, will turn our economy around.
Find out how you can help.

REPRESENTATIVE JOHN CONYERS, JR. (D- MI)
SPEAKS THIS SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH
AT 3720 CHESTNUT ST.
PHILADELPHIA
1-3 PM
(donations welcomed)

The Fragile Art of Existance, Decibel Magazine’s recent investigation of how extreme metal bands are coping with America’s failing economy devotes a few paragraphs to health insurance.
Near, dear and slammin' drummer Rich Hoak is quoted as saying,
“I’ve got a bottle of whiskey and a shotgun. That’s all the health insurance I want or need.”
While I appreciate the true rock spirit and humor in his statement, Decibel’s findings were more serious and predictable and indicate that most musicians are seriously un and under insured.
Other sections of Decibel’s article include a discussion of the miserable effects of a recession on most touring musicians already hand to mouth life.
The economic collapse and health insurance are not separate issues.
Come to the Town Hall Meeting on Penn campus this Saturday and find out more.

You’re being invited to this event because you’re on Stinking Lizaveta’s mailing lists. We realize that you may not live in proximity to Philadelphia.
This is a national issue. Go to Physicians for a National Health Program,( PNHP.org) to find out what you can do in your location.
If you don’t live in the US, wish us luck.

Thanks everyone for your attention.

More about the issue:

Author of the United States National Health Care Act, HR 676,
Rep. John Conyers, will make make explicit the connection between health care reform and economic revival.

Lately we hear a lot about the need to stimulate the economy, and a lot about the need to reform health care. But we can't let these debates continue in isolation. Not enough people are hearing the message that the best way to stimulate the economy is to free it from the burden of health care costs.

The U.S. spends twice as much as other industrialized nations on health care, $7,129 per capita. Yet our system performs poorly in comparison and still leaves 47 million without health coverage and millions more inadequately covered.

This is because private insurance bureaucracy and paperwork consume one-third (31 percent) of every health care dollar. Streamlining payment through a single nonprofit payer would save more than $350 billion per year, enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all Americans.


Sponsored by
Physicians for a National Health Program,( PNHP.org)
and
Health Care for All Philadelphia, Healthcare Now!
(http://phillyhealth.blogspot.com/).