IOT: Healthcare for All/Single Payer January Call

Submitted by Anna on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 22:09

A stellar group of guests spoke to over 80 callers, answering questions submitted in the PDA Chat Room. Minnesota Senator John Marty, Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for governor, spoke about single payer legislation in MN, with Chuck Pennacchio from Healthcare4AllPA joining the conversation to compare and contrast the situation in PA, especially in light of ERISA legislation.

Cong. Eric Massa gave the group a generous amount of time to discuss the merging of the House and Senate Healthcare bills, which he bluntly told the group will have few or none of the good aspects of the House bill. Donna Smith, PDA’s Healthcare NOT Warfare co-chair as well as legislative advocate for CalNurses, spoke frankly about how the timidity of the Democrats lost us the chance for any kind of substantive change in healthcare.

IOT coordinator Roberta McNair told the group how to participate in the Brown Bag Lunch Vigils, which have the goal of redirecting the massive sums of money currently going to military costs for the wars into social-benefit programs, such as Medicare for All.

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