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Health Care for All Rally/Lobby Day
Submitted by DavidDelk on Sun, 11/16/2014 - 00:20
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OREGON 2015 RALLY AND LOBBY DAY
Join the Oregon Progressive Party and
Health Care for All Oregon
on the steps of the Oregon capital in Salem on
February 11, 2015
11 AM - 1 PM
The 2015 legislative session will have started earlier in the week and we gather to tell our state representatives and senators that we need a health care financing system in Oregon which is
Affordable
Universal
and results in better health care outcomes
for all Oregonians.
We need a Single Payer Healthcare system to replace the private for-profit insurance system we have now.
Register today to go and rally and then to lobby our elected officials. Register here.
Everybody In, Nobody Out!
Because health care is a human right!
Oregon Progressive Party Statement on Health Care
Submitted by info on Tue, 11/04/2014 - 03:25
Our health care system is broken. We pay more for health care than any other industrialized nation, but we cover the smallest percentage of people. Under the Affordable Care Act, many Americans remain without access to health care. For lack of health insurance, thousands of Americans die each year. For those who do have health insurance, large co-pays and deductibles send many into debt. And it's the taxpayer who picks up the tab for the subsidized plans. The Affordable Care Act is less than a band-aid. It is a giveaway to the insurance companies.
Imagine if health care were a human right. Imagine a health care system that puts people before profits. Imagine if everyone had access to health care. Imagine health care that doesn't push people into bankruptcy. Imagine doctors and patients making health care decisions, not insurance companies. Imagine health care including dental, optical, and mental health care for all.
The Oregon Progressive Party supports local and federal efforts to create universal access to health care. Everyone in, no one out. We need health care, not health insurance.
"Of all the forms of inequity, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
--Martin Luther King Jr., 1966
We support the efforts of these organizations:
Health Care For All Oregon - hcao.org
Mad As Hell Doctors - MadAsHellDoctors.com
Simgle Payer Action - SinglePayerAction.org
Healthcare Now! - healthcare-now.org
Physicians for a National Health Program - pnhp.org
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