Single-Payer Events Across the Country
If you have a single-payer related event that you’d like added to this list, please email jeff@healthcare-now.org with the information. Besides listing your event here we will send it out to our supporters in your city or region.
Single-Payer Events in June 2013
June 20, 2013 – St. Louis, MO
Sick Around the World
T.R. Reid, a veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post explores health care systems from capitalist democracies across the world. In this documentary, Reid travels to the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Switzerland in order to contrast and compare their health care systems with that of the United States’.
When: Thursday, June 20, 6:30pm
Where: Hanke Room, Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd., St. Louis, MO
Sponsored by Missourians for Single-Payer Healthcare.
Single-Payer Events in July 2013
July 13, 2013 – Prince Frederick, MD
Calvert County Healthcare Speakout!
When: Sat, July 13th, 2-4 pm
Where: Prince Frederick Library, 850 Costley Way, Prince Frederick, MD
More information at HealthcareIsAHumanRightMaryland.org.
July 16, 2013 – Annapolis, MD
The Healthcare Movie
Where: 49 West Coffeehouse, 49 West St, Annapolis
When: Tuesday July 16th, 2013, 6-8 PM
Free
Following the movie there will be a discussion lead by members of the Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign in Maryland.
Contact Information: HCHRMaryland@gmail.org.
More information at HealthcareIsAHumanRightMaryland.org.
July 18, 2013 – St. Louis, MO
Sick Around America
As the worsening economy leads to massive job losses—potentially forcing millions more Americans to go without health insurance—FRONTLINE travels the country examining the nation’s broken health care system and explores the need for a fundamental overhaul. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Jon Palfreman dissects the private insurance system, a system that not only fails to cover 46 million Americans but also leaves millions more underinsured and at risk of bankruptcy. FRONTLINE profiles the Abramses, a Massachusetts family of four earning $63,000 annually, who found that although they were too prosperous to receive a health care subsidy, they could not afford to buy a health care insurance policy at around $12,000 a year. “What we’re finding out in Massachusetts,” says veteran insurance industry executive and consultant Robert Laszewski, “you can mandate that people have health insurance, but if it costs more than they can afford, it doesn’t matter.”
When: Thursday, July 18, 6:30pm
Where: Hanke Room, Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd., St. Louis, MO
Sponsored by Missourians for Single-Payer Healthcare.
Single-Payer Events in August 2013
August 15, 2013 – St. Louis, MO
The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room lays bare the struggle of both a community and an institution coping with limited resources and no road map for navigating a health care landscape marked by historic economic and political dysfunction. It is a film about one hospital, its multifaceted community, and how our common vulnerability to illness binds us together as humans. The ER waiting room serves as the grounding point for the film, capturing in vivid detail what it means for millions of Americans to live without health insurance. Young victims of gun violence take their turn alongside artists and small business owners who lack insurance. Steel workers, taxi cab drivers and international asylum seekers crowd the halls. The film weaves the stories of several patients – as well as the hospital staff charged with caring for them – as they cope with the complexity of the nation’s public health care system, while weathering the storm of a national recession.
When: Thursday, August 15, 6:30pm
Where: Hanke Room, Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd., St. Louis, MO
Sponsored by Missourians for Single-Payer Healthcare.
