Order your postcards to support HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act!

Postcards are a great way to talk to friends & co-workers about the immediate need for removing the private insurance industry from our healthcare system. Order 7 postcards today and be part of the growing movement to win single payer healthcare!

Call 415–695-7891 or email  (dbechlervaluenet)   to place your order, or mail request to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

Text of the postcards to the President read:

“Dear President Obama,

Thank you for keeping the campaign for universal healthcare moving forward. Together, we can complete the task of insuring everyone has healthcare by supporting HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. Please work hard to pass HR 676. HR 676 would spend resources wisely, whereas the health insurance bureaucracy wastes 31 cents of every health care dollar, HR 676 would deliver health care to everyone while the insurance industry attempts to avoid the sick, deny claims and pass expenses on to others”.

Healthcare –YES!

Insurance Companies –NO!

When: Saturday, April 20th from 10am– 6 pm

Where: SF Civic Center, Green Party Table

Call 415–695-7891 or email Don  (dbechlervaluenet)   for more information, or to confirm your participation.

We hope you can help advocate for single payer healthcare this Saturday at San Francisco’s Civic Center.  We will be at the Green Party table from 10am to 6pm.  We will be asking people to sign postcards to expand Medicare to everyone.  This is important as President Obama wants to cut back on Medicare by raising the annual deductibles.

Our postcards to the President read:

“Dear President Obama,

Thank you for keeping the campaign for universal healthcare moving forward. Together, we can complete the task of insuring everyone has healthcare by supporting HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. Please work hard to pass HR 676.HR 676 would spend resources wisely, whereas the health insurance bureaucracy wastes 31 cents of every health care dollar, HR 676 would deliver health care to everyone while the insurance industry attempts to avoid the sick, deny claims and pass expenses on to others”.

To order postcards, email  (dbechlervaluenet)   or call  415–695-7891

Click here or mail contribution to:

Single Payer Now
PO Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

Tell Obama We Want National Healthcare Minus the Insurance Industry

When: Wednesday, April 3rd 5:00PM-6:30PM

Where: Corner of Divisadero & Pacific Ave., San Francisco

What: Please join us on Wednesday, April 3rd to tell President Obama that we want national healthcare that delivers healthcare to everyone without the interference of the insurance industry. Obama will be fundraising in SF at a $5,000 per person dinner. President Obama is under tremendous pressure to cut Medicare. He needs to hear a strong message that we want healthcare for everyone!

Under the best case scenario, the Affordable Care Act still leaves tens of millions of people without healthcare. We want to pass HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act:

• HR 676 would spend resources wisely, whereas the health insurance bureaucracy wastes 31¢ of every health care dollar. HR 676 would deliver healthcare to everyone, while the insurance industry attempts to avoid the sick, deny claims and pass expenses on to others.

Please Email Don  (dbechlervaluenet)   or Call 415–695-7891 OR 415–810-5826 if you can:

• attend
• hold a banner
• carry a sign
• make phone calls
• make a contribution for rally materials click here or a contribution can be sent to:

Single Payer Now
P.O. Box 460622
San Francisco, CA 94146

We hope to see you Wed. April 3 at 5pm!

Please join us THIS SATURDAY, March 16th at the Southern California Library for the First Hood Health Fair & Peoples’ Forum!

The event is from 1–5 PM, childcare will be provided
6120 S. Vermont Ave. LA, CA 90044 (cross is w. 61st Street)

Email here  (hoodhealthlagmailcom)   or call 323–316-8933 for more info.

There will be LOADS of great information and resources, including a free seedling giveaway, opportunities to get tested for high blood pressure and diabetes, rapid HIV testing. Even have a session with an acupuncturist- free!

From 1:45– 2:15pm There will be workshops on:

• Tai Chi
• Healthy fresh food preparation/ interactive workshop with Large Marge
• Preventing and controlling high blood pressure & diabetes
• Why we need Medicare for All and Strike Medical Debt Campaign/ Rolling Jubilee

From 2:30–3:00pm:

• What you need to know about the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) with County+Community Health Empowerment (C+CHE)
• Community Gardening w/ Master Gardener Sarah
• Qi Gong with Misako

3:00pm- How Incarceration is Harmful to our Health, with Bita Amani, PhD, MHS

From 3:30–4:30 we will have the Peoples’ Forum where we will have the opportunity to engage one another about personal and community health, important issues we face regarding our healthcare options and what we can do about it!

4:30–5:00pm: Stay for a healthy community meal prepared earlier by participants at food prep workshop– YUM!!!!

We hope to see you Saturday for an afternoon full of great people, food, information and conversation. Til then, be well friends!

- Hood Health  (hoodhealthlagmailcom)  

Power to the People! Healthcare is a Human Right!

When: Saturday, March 2nd.

Details coming soon.

Single Payer Now Mailing Party

When: Thurs., Feb 21st from noon to 8pm

Where: 2467 28^th Ave @ Taraval, SF. ½ block south of the Taraval MUNI.
* Plentiful street parking.

The mailing will announce our March 2nd  meeting on Healthcare in Cuba.

Please join us this Thursday at the home Barry Hermanson between noon and 8pm to help send out the mail. Barry will cook pizza or pasta around 6pm.

Come hang out with the best people on earth!

Please RSVP to let us know if you are coming so Barry knows how much food to prepare. Call 415–695-7891 or email Don.  (dbechlervaluenet)  

Single Payer Now’s Yearly Healthcare Potluck

Featuring Presentations On the Need for Universal Healthcare–

Minus the Insurance Industry

When:  Sunday, February 10, 2013. From 3pm to 5pm (Doors open at 2:30)

Where: St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco 1111 Gough St. @ Geary

(Easy Parking in the Cathedral Parking Lot)

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

With the passage of national healthcare legislation (the Affordable Care Act), 2013 presents both political challenges and opportunities for movement growth.   Under the best case scenario, the Affordable Care Act will still leave 3 million Californians uninsured.  The ACA will also deliver different levels of care to different classes of people and the insurance industry will still be stealing 20 billion dollars from Californians.

Both nationally and in California we are working to pass legislation that would deliver healthcare to everyone and exclude the insurance industry.

Come learn why single payer healthcare is so important.   And enjoy a great meal!

Speakers include:

Ben Day: National Organizing Director for Healthcare Now.  Ben is past director of MassCare, Massachusetts’s state advocacy organization.

Mike Casey – President of Local 2 UNITE HERE.  Local 2 represents 12,000 hotel workers in San Francisco.

Jodi Reid – Executive Director of the California Alliance for Retired Americans.

Roxanne Sanchez – President of Service Employees International Union 1021.  SEIU 1021 represents 54,000 workers in Northern California.

Support the California Universal Healthcare Act

Support HR 676, the U.S. National Healthcare Act

Download Leaflet here

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11th, PERSHING SQUARE, 11AM – 1PM

The Campaign for a Healthy California will hold their 2nd Annual Los Angeles march and rally in support of guaranteed universal healthcare for ALL Californians and protest against “BIG health insurance.”

We want to remember the victims of those who are suffering, those who cannot afford to get the care they need, and those who have been denied care, whether due to their wallet, their health or their documentation status! We need Improved Medicare for All! Join us on Monday, February 11th starting in Pershing Square and ending at the offices of Anthem Blue Cross.

ACTION:
11:00 am: Rally at Pershing Square, 532 South Olive, Los Angeles (Metro Red Line: Pershing Square)

11:30 am: March & Jazz Funeral Procession to Anthem/Blue Cross Offices

12:00 pm: Protest at Anthem/ Blue Cross, SW Corner of 8th & South Figueroa (Metro Red Line: 7th St./ Metro Center)

ENGLISH FLYER

SPANISH FLYER

For more information, contact King Reilly at 323–839-0985 or Georgia Brewer at georgiabrewergmailcom

Please join us & CaHPSA (California Health Professional Student Alliance) as we gather for a day of action. We will head to Sacramento in the morning to deliver  postcards which SPN activists have been collecting, and hand deliver them to legislators calling for their support of the California Universal Healthcare Act.

February 11 at Noon– Rally with Campaign for a Healthy California in supporting the CaHPSA rally for single payer!

1:00 PM –March to the California Association of Health Plans at 14th and L Streets.
(A bus will be available for those unable to walk that distance.)

Bus rides to Sacramento available from Bay Area locations. Please call to reserve a seat.

■ San Francisco: San Francisco Main Library, Larkin and Fulton at 9 am. Reserve a seat through Don Bechler at Single Payer Now, 415–810-5826 or by email.  (dbechlervaluenet)  
■ Richmond: Target, 42nd and MacDonald Avenue at 9:45 am. Reserve a seat through Cara at 510–663-4086.
■ Berkeley: Ashby Bart at 9:15 am. This bus will pick up in Richmond after the Berkeley stop. Reserve a seat through Cara at 510–663-4086.
■ San Jose: South Bay Labor Council, 2102 Almaden Road at 9:00 am. Reserve a seat through Greg Miller  (brogregmsbcglobalnet)   – (408) 254‑3311.
■ Grass Valley: KMart, 111 W. McKnight Way at 9:30 am. Reserve a seat through Mindy’s email  (healthcareforallbaggladycom)  .
■ Roseville: UDW office, 800 Sunrise Avenue Suite C at 10:15 am. Reserve a seat through Diana at 916–435-9760.
■ Fresno: Mervyn’s Parking Lot, Ashlan and Shields at 7:30 am. Reserve a seat through Judy Hess  (judyhessgmailcom)   – 559–907-0279.
■ Modesto: Old Krispy Kreme, Briggsmoore at Highway 99 at 9:15 am. Reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209–951-0499.
■ Stockton: Clarion Hotel, Highway 99 at Waterloo at 10 am. Reserve a seat through Carol Bailey at 209–951-0499.

Share the ENGLISH flyer
Share the SPANISH flyer

Please help us gt out the mail!

When: Tuesday, Nov 27th from  noon to 8pm

Where: 2467 28^th St @Taraval, San Francisco (plentiful street parking)

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