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PDA Joins Healthcare for All National Day of Action June 7!

On June 7, Healthcare NOW, a PDA ally, is sponsoring a series of grassroots events designed to raise awareness among the general public and our elected officials on the benefits of a single-payer healthcare system. The date 6/7/6 has caught the imagination and support of this movement as a means of publicizing and educating about H.R. 676, the United States Health Insurance Act, which would establish an American-styled national insurance program. The bill would create a publicly financed, privately delivered health care program that uses the already existing Medicare program by improving and expanding it to all U.S. residents.

A variety of colorful events scheduled for 6-7-6 will celebrate the possibility of a national healthcare system.

• The Raging Grannies will be singing and protesting the lack of comprehensive healthcare along with Healthcare-NOW activists in hospital gowns at the Mariners game in Seattle.
• The California Nurses Association and Los Angeles activists will take a walking tour along a corridor of insurance companies to protest their profiting on the backs of the sick.
• In Tyler, Texas activists will meet with MoveOn activists to call for national single payer health care as one of their national priorities.
• In Montgomery, Alabama activists and leaders will have a national livecast to talk about healthcare issues affecting their state.
• Healthcare NOW together with New York City doctors, unions and faith groups will be calling on people to support a NY City Council resolution in support of H.R. 676 and a premiere of the new film, "Don't Be a Chicken."
• Jobs with Justice and United for National Healthcare members will hold H.R. 676 banners on freeways and bridges in Bellingham, Washington.
• Activists in several states including Florida will demonstrate and call attention to the fact that insurance companies do not provide any healthcare. We do not need insurance companies. They stand in the way of healthcare for millions of people. We need H.R. 676.

PDA joins Healthcare NOW in urging that a new Congress be elected to support a national healthcare system. The profits must be taken out of the insurance companies and spent on healthcare instead. We can have an enhanced and improved Medicare for All, a less expensive and more comprehensive system that will help our economy, provide healthcare for all, and save thousands of lives. Healthcare-NOW says we can do it in three years if we try.

Everybody In, Nobody Out!

Take action here to support HR 676. Single-payer health care is a founding issue of PDA. Please join the PDA working group on single payer health care.

Americans are DYING for Healthcare. We want to LIVE. Go to www.healthcare-now.org to order the new film and to find out more.