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2008--Guaranteed Quality and Less Expensive Medicare for All
Healthcare-NOW's mission is to support the growing movement for a quality, national, single-payer, guaranteed, healthcare system for everybody in this country. We believe this can only be attained by removing the insurance companies from control of our healthcare. The movement is growing. Join us!
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Important Update
Healthcare-NOW Position Paper regarding Health Care for America Now and an Open Letter to Elizabeth Edwards
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Donate in Honor of Someone You Love or to Join Healthcare-NOW!
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Join Healthcare-NOW! for Our 2008 Annual Strategy Conference!
November 15th and 16th
Join us in Chicago, IL
 You are invited to join Healthcare-NOW! activists from around the country to plan our 2009 strategy to win guaranteed single-payer national health insurance. By learning and sharing from one another we can build on the tremendous successes of the last year and develop the plan to push the next administration and Congress to implement single-payer national health insurance NOW.
What: The Healthcare-NOW! 2008 Annual Strategy Conference
Where: Marriott Chicago Midway - Chicago, Illinois
When: Saturday, November 15th 4pm–9pm and Sunday, November 16th 8am–5pm
The movement supporting national single-payer healthcare reform is approaching an historic moment for healthcare reform. Together we will develop the plan to win true healthcare justice! Join us!
To register for the conference, please complete the Registration Form and return to Healthcare-NOW!, or call Katie Robbins at 1-800-453-1305 to make reservations by phone. Hotel accommodations with the Fairfield Inn next to the Chicago Midway airport are available at a special Healthcare-NOW! discounted rate until October 31st, 2008. You MUST register with Healthcare-NOW! by completing the Registration Form before October 31st to receive the discounted rate.
Discounted flight arrangements can be made with New Era Travel at 1-800-822-6393. Please mention you are with Healthcare-NOW!
Free airport shuttle, free continental breakfast, and free wi-fi included in hotel reservations. A $30.00 Registration fee is required by check or money order to Healthcare-NOW! This fee is to help cover the conference expenses.
For questions, comments, or financial hardship concerns, please don’t hesitate to call Katie Robbins at 1-800-453-1305 or email info@healthcare-now.org.
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We have over 400 labor endorsers of HR 676. See them all.
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New Bookmark Available
NEW! Healthcare-NOW! Bookmarks available! This a simple handout packed with information about the US Health Care Crisis and the Single Payer Solution. For a limited time, you can receive 10 *free* bookmarks by request. Additional bookmarks can be purchased at $0.15/each.
Order from Healthcare-NOW! at 800-453-1305 or info@healthcare-now.org.
Click the image for full view of the bookmark.
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Win-Win Campaign Resources Now Available
We want YOU for a new campaign targeting local government entities – cities, towns, counties, school boards – in an effort to get them to endorse HR 676. Our hook is big money savings in a time of fiscal crisis for governments.
Help us get this message to local government officials. We are asking for interested people to sign up for this campaign, and commit to a 6-8 week process of learning and doing, culminating – if all goes well – in a resolution or public endorsement from your town, city, county or school board. Local officials will learn that national health insurance is the only reform that provides significant financial relief for fiscally strapped local governments.
We welcome everyone’s help. If you live in a big city with a progressive mayor who might quickly see the light and sign on to HR 676, we especially hope you will sign up. High visibility mayoral support will bring momentum to this campaign.
So, sign on today! Send your email to info@healthcare-now.org. In your email, we need to know several things: full name; USPO mailing address; phone number(s); and the government entity you think you want to target. Please, don’t sign up unless you are willing to complete a 6-8 week hands-on process designed to win a local endorsement for HR 676. You will need to commit about 5 hours/week to this campaign.
Visit our Win-Win Campaign Page for more information.
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Death By Spreadsheet Booklet Now Available
This booklet contains testimonials detailing injustices of the American health care system. These are firsthand accounts of tragedy and death due to insurance denials and lack of coverage.
At a time when 47 million American people are uninsured and 80 million more Americans have inadequate coverage, these expressions of suffering--posted to our online petition--document the experiences of people in the midst of this health care crisis. In a society that can attribute 101,000 unnecessary deaths each year to problems with our health insurance system and lack of preventative care, these are the voices of just a few of the victims.
Remember, insurance companies must deny healthcare claims in order to increase their profits.
Click here to download the Booklet (PDF).
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Protest Toolkit Released
Practical Advice in the Fight for Single-Payer Health Care
Chicago Single-Payer Action Network (CSPAN) created this tool kit to assist other single-payer groups in organizing protests of insurance companies. The photographs in this manual were all taken during our protests in Chicago. We hope you will find this tool kit helpful in organizing your own protests.
More information:
Chicago Single-Payer Action Network (CSPAN)
www.ChiSPAN.org
Click here to download the Toolkit (PDF).
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