Organizing For Single Payer Healthcare

With Dr. Quentin Young and Single Payer Now

WHEN: Wednesday, February 8 at  7:00 pm

WHERE: 835 Urbano Dr, San Francisco, 94127 (For directions, call Barbara at 415– 239‑2045)

For more program information, call Don Bechler at 415–695-7891 or email here  (dbechlervaluenet)  

We hope you can join us at the home of Barbara Commins for a wonderful evening of healthcare updates and organizing.

Dr. Quentin Young will update us on the national campaign for single payer healthcare.  Dr. Young is a national treasure.  He is a founding member and current national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program.  During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County in Chicago. In 1998, he served as president of the American Public Health Association.  He was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s personal physician during the latter’s stays in Chicago.

Don Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now, will update us on California’s campaign for SB 810.  SB 810 will be voted up or down on Tuesday, January 31.

We will also ask attendees to take SB 810 postcards home, and we will ask for financial contributions.

Please let us know if you can attend.  And we also need phone tree volunteers to alert activists who do not have email.

To make a contribution, click here. Or you can send a contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, February 8th!

For more information, please call 415–695-7891 or email Don  (dbechlervaluenet)  

Download PDF of leaflet here: 2012 Feb 8 SF mtg with Quentin Young & Single Payer Now

Organizing For Single Payer Healthcare

With Dr. Quentin Young and Single Payer Now

WHEN: Thursday, February 2nd  at  7:00 pm

WHERE: 4890 Seaview Ave, Castro Valley, 94546 (For directions, call Sonya at 510–582-4818)

For more program information, call Don Bechler at 415–695-7891 or email here  (dbechlervaluenet)  

We hope you can join us this Thursday at the home of Sonya Howes for a wonderful evening of healthcare updates and organizing.

Dr. Quentin Young will update us on the national campaign for single payer healthcare.  Dr. Young is a national treasure.  He is a founding member and current national coordinator for Physicians for a National Health Program.  During the 1970s and early 1980s, he served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Cook County in Chicago. In 1998, he served as president of the American Public Health Association.  He was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s personal physician during the latter’s stays in Chicago.

Don Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now, will update us on California’s campaign for SB 810.  SB 810 will be voted up or down on Tuesday, January 31.

We will also ask attendees to take SB 810 postcards home, and we will ask for financial contributions.

Please let us know if you can attend.  And we also need phone tree volunteers to alert activists who do not have email.

To make a contribution, click here. Or you can send a contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, February 2nd!

For more information, please call 415–695-7891 or email Don  (dbechlervaluenet)  

Download PDF of leaflet here: 2012 FEB 2 Mtg in Castro Valley

You Are Invited to Single Payer Now’s Annual Potluck

Sat. 3 PM– January 7th  Doors open at 2:20 — plentiful parking

St. Mary’s Cathedral — 1111 Gough at Geary

We encourage you to invite your friends and family,  and we could use your help calling activists who do not have email. Please let us know if you can attend and if you can help make calls.

For more information, call 415–695-7891 or email dbechlervaluenet  (dbechlervaluenet)  

Campaigning for Medicare for All in California and Nationally

Speakers:

State Senator Mark Leno — author of SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act

Claudia Fegan, M.D. — Chief Medical Officer of Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Board Member and Past President of Physicians for a National Health Program

Sponsored by Single Payer Now Download leaflet 12-Jan-7-potluck

Healthcare Yes! Insurance Companies No!
Support SB 810 and HR 676

Help Get Out Single Payer Now’s Mail

Sun. Dec 11, Wed. Dec 14, Sun. Dec. 18

We need your help getting out the end of the year mail!

Our mailing will announce our January 7 annual potluck, the January 9 student lobby day, the January 17 Senate Appropriations hearing, and the mailing will ask activists to contact various state senators to support SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act.

Our mailings parties are fun.  We get to catch up with each other.  Barry Hermanson, will make pizza at 5:30.  You are encouraged to bring toppings.

Please RSVP to let us know when you can come. Call 415–695-7891 or Email Don.  (dbechlervaluenet)  

• Sunday, Dec 11th- noon-8 p.m.
• Wednesday, Dec 14th — noon-8 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec 18th — noon-8 p.m.

We also need financial contributions to help pay for the mailing. Please let us know how you can help. To make a financial contribution, click here.

Or you can send a contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We hope to see you in the coming days, thank you for your continued support!

Help Get Out Single Payer Now’s Mail

Sun. Dec 11, Wed. Dec 14, Sun. Dec. 18

We need your help getting out the end of the year mail!

Our mailing will announce our January 7 annual potluck, the January 9 student lobby day, the January 17 Senate Appropriations hearing, and the mailing will ask activists to contact various state senators to support SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act.

Our mailings parties are fun.  We get to catch up with each other.  Barry Hermanson, will make pizza at 5:30.  You are encouraged to bring toppings.

Please RSVP to let us know when you can come. Call 415–695-7891 or Email Don.  (dbechlervaluenet)  

• Sunday, Dec 11th- noon-8 p.m.
• Wednesday, Dec 14th — noon-8 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec 18th — noon-8 p.m.

We also need financial contributions to help pay for the mailing. Please let us know how you can help. To make a financial contribution, click here.

Or you can send a contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We hope to see you in the coming days, thank you for your continued support!

Help Get Out Single Payer Now’s Mail

Sun. Dec 11, Wed. Dec 14, Sun. Dec. 18

We need your help getting out the end of the year mail!

Our mailing will announce our January 7 annual potluck, the January 9 student lobby day, the January 17 Senate Appropriations hearing, and the mailing will ask activists to contact various state senators to support SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act.

Our mailings parties are fun.  We get to catch up with each other.  Barry Hermanson, will make pizza at 5:30.  You are encouraged to bring toppings.

Please RSVP to let us know when you can come. Call 415–695-7891 or Email Don.  (dbechlervaluenet)  

• Sunday, Dec 11th- noon-8 p.m.
• Wednesday, Dec 14th — noon-8 p.m.
• Sunday, Dec 18th — noon-8 p.m.

We also need financial contributions to help pay for the mailing. Please let us know how you can help. To make a financial contribution, click here.

Or you can send a contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We hope to see you in the coming days, thank you for your continued support!

Please join hundreds of health professional students and activists on the steps of the capitol as we rally to support SB 810, the California Universal Healthcare Act. For the sixth year in a row, hundreds of dedicated students take to streets and march to the capitol to voice their support for healthcare justice for all. As the future of medicine, these brave young people support a system where everyone has access to medical care, not just those who can afford it. Please join us in cheering them on as they lobby their legislators to enact a publicly financed, privately delivered, equitable, sustainable and just health care system for all Californians!

If you are unable to travel to Sacramento on this day, please join us in Los Angeles for a solidarity action.

Los Angeles Event Details:

• 11 AM Assemble at Pershing Square – 532 South Olive St, Los Angeles 90013 (Pershing Square Metro).  Meet by fountain
• 11:15 AM  —  “Funeral Procession” march to Insurance Giant Office near 8th St. and Figueroa-  view parking options here

Download the flyer here. A flyer in Spanish is also available here. For more information, email Lisa  (lpmuddgmailcom)   or call (323) 316‑8933

Sacramento Event Details:

• 11 AM @ 3rd Street and Capitol Mall — March to the Capitol with the students, nurses, seniors and more
• 12 PM Rally @ Capitol North Steps
• Approximately 1 PM – March and action on Insurance Industry Giant with a health fair (lunch provided)

Download the flyer here. For more information, contact the organizers at infohealthycaliforniacampaignorg  (infohealthycaliforniacampaignorg)  .

Buses to Sacramento:

The Campaign is providing bus transportation for the Sacramento Action. We are asking folks to contribute to buses. Cost is $40 per person, but it’s a sliding scale – whatever people can give, NO ONE will be turned away for lack of funds.  Lunch will be provided at the Sacramento rally.  All buses should be home by 5pm with the exception of Fresno.

• San Francisco — SF Main Library at Larkin and Fulton at 9am.  (reserve a seat through CARA at 510–663-4086)
• Richmond — Target at 42nd and MacDonald Ave at 9:45am (reserve a seat through CARA at 510–663-4086)
• Vallejo – behind Seven Eleven on Georgia Street at 10:00am(reserve a seat through Mary Magill at 707–748-0721)
• Berkeley – Ashby Bart at 9:30am.  (reserve a seat through CARA at 510–663-4086)
• San Jose– South Bay Labor Council, 2102 Almaden Road, San Jose at 8:30am  (reserve a seat through Greg Miller 408–254-3311 brogregmsbcglobalnet  (brogregmsbcglobalnet)  )
• Grass Valley — KMart, 111 W. McKnight Way at 9:30 (reserve a seat through Mindy Oberne 530 273‑3033 healthcareforallbaggladycom  (healthcareforallbaggladycom)  )
• Roseville – UDW office, 800 Sunrise Ave Suite C at 10:15am (reserve a seat through Diana at 916–435-9760)
• Fresno – Mervyn’s Parking Lot, Ashlan and Shields at 7:30am (reserve a seat through Judy Hess 559–434-8721 judyhessgmailcom  (judyhessgmailcom)  )
• Modesto – Old Krispy Kreme, Briggsmoore at Highway 99 at  9:15am (reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209–921-0499)
• Stockton:  Clarion Hotel, Highway 99 @ Waterloo at 10am. (reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209–921-0499)

Can’t attend? Consider sponsoring a CaHPSA medical student or other health professional student to go to Lobby Day 2012. If interested, please email Joey Foy  (joeypnhpcaliforniaorg)  , Shearer Student Fellow.

Lets make this years’ Lobby Day a great success! Together, Single Payer WILL happen!

Friday, December 2, 2011
Day of Action in SF To Stop the Cuts
Proposed by the Super Committee & Congress

Because the 1% Got Bailed Out & the 99% Got Sold Out!
Because a Phony Deficit Crisis Transfers More Wealth to the 1%!
Because We Oppose Cutting Social Benefits already Paid For by the 99%!
Because We Should Tax the 1%!
Because We Should Fund Jobs instead of Wars!
Because We Should Pay for Schools instead of Prisons!

Expand Social Security!
No Cuts to Medicaid!
Medicare for All!
Tax the Rich!

2pm, Occupy the Federal Building (7th & Mission St. Civic Center Bart/Muni).
Assemble at the SF Federal Building where hundreds of us will peacefully deliver our strong message to government representatives of No Cuts to Medicaid; Expand Social Security and Medicare for All while a rally is held outside in the Federal Building Plaza. We will then march to the Financial District.

3:30pm, Occupy Wall Street West– route to be announced soon. We will march to several symbols of financial gluttony before heading to the Occupy SF area at the foot of Market St.

5pm into the night, Celebrate & Defend Occupy SF — We call upon Bay Area labor and community activists to join us for a rally/concert in Justin Herman Plaza that will support Occupy SF and express solidarity with Hotel Workers Local 2 boycott activity across the street at the Hyatt Hotel, a notorious symbol of corporate greed.

For more information, contact Don Bechler at 415–695-7891 or email dbechlervaluenet  (dbechlervaluenet)  

Sponsored by the San Francisco Labor Council, AFL-CIO;
Endorsed by Single Payer Now; California Alliance for Retired Americans, Independent Living Resource Center, and Jobs with Justice

Dowload PDF of leaflet here: 11-Dec-2-Rally-for-Medicare-for-All

From PNHPCA.org

Join us at the legendary Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, Sunday, November 6, 2011 for “Bubbly, Brunch & Benoit” – a champagne brunch and jazz concert benefit for PNHP California’s “Everybody Deserves Healthcare” fund. PNHP’s Dr. Paul Song and his wife, Lisa Ling of “Our America With Lisa Ling” on the Oprah Winfrey Network, will co-host the event.

A silent auction—featuring unique and hard to find entertainment, music and sports memorabilia along with exciting trips, jewelry, art and more—begins at noon in the rock waterfall patio garden. Inside, enjoy a champagne buffet brunch while listening to the incomparable David Benoit Trio, with a guest performance by vocalist Carey Appel.

The afternoon ends at 3 PM with a lucky guest winning a pair of tickets to Istanbul. Each Jazz Brunch ticket purchased includes one chance to win a pair of roundtrip Comfort Class tickets to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines. Click here to purchase your event tickets now. Donations are tax-deductible.

Can’t make it to the event? Consider making a donation instead! Another great way to get involved is to purchase a ticket for a health professional student! All you have to do is purchase the ticket normally and then email us  (mollypnhpcaliforniaorg)   and let us know that you are donating your ticket to a student. You can give it to a specific student, or let us choose a worthy student from CaHPSA. This is a great way to support PNHP California and CaHPSA students at the same time.

The “Everybody Deserves Healthcare” fund supports PNHP California’s educational work to ensure that everyone has access to high quality, comprehensive healthcare. We believe that goal is best reached through a publicly financed, privately delivered system, for example by improving Medicare and giving it to everyone. Click here for more information.

When: Sunday, November 20th  from 2–4 p.m.

Where: Mercado La Paloma, 3655 South Grand Ave. ( At 37th Street). Plentiful free parking.

Healthcare for the 99% –YES!

Insurance Companies – NO!

Students and activists who recently attended the Physicians for the National Health Program  (PNHP) national conference on October 28/29 in Washington, DC, will report on the state of America’s Health.  PNHP supports a national healthcare system minus the insurance industry.

From the 110 North, take the Exposition Blvd. exit. Turn right on 37th and take the first left onto Grand.

From the 110 South, take the Exposition Blvd. exit. Stay in the left-hand lane and head south on Flower. Take a left on 37th and merge right to go straight past Hope Street. Take the next left onto Grand Avenue. Bus: Broadway / 36^th 40, 42, 45

Speakers:

Chris Brown, MPH, California Health Professional Student Alliance (CaHPSA)

Cindy De LA Cruz- CaHPSA, Cal State Long Beach

Lisa Patrick-Mudd – Single Payer Now

Special Guest speaker from the People’s Collective University from Occupy Los Angeles– Will discuss the Occupy Movement, and what it’s all about!

Sponsored by Single Payer Now   Download PDF of Leaflet: Healthcare for the 99

For more information, please call 323–316-8933 or email Lisa.   (lisasinglepayernownet)