What a difference a movie makes. Michael Moore’s “SiCKO” http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/ is breathing new life into the movement for non-profit national health insurance: “Enhanced Medicare for All.” Energized by “SiCKO,” Progressive Democrats of America is intensifying its campaign in support of HR 676, which would establish single-payer Medicare for All.
The House bill – authored by PDA advisory board member Rep. John Conyers – was endorsed by Michael Moore at a spirited rally Wednesday on Capitol Hill. HR 676 already has 75 co-sponsors. PDA activists will be out in force this summer leafleting for HR 676 at “SiCKO” screenings nationwide, beginning with sneak previews this Saturday in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Cleveland and many other cities. Contact Tim Carpenter (413-320-2015) for more details.
The Conyers bill/HR 676 is endorsed by dozens of labor, civil rights and consumer organizations, as well as thousands of physicians who have witnessed the takeover of healthcare by private insurance companies.
“Over a period of decades,” said PDA director Tim Carpenter, “we’ve watched Democratic leaders’ commitment to national health insurance decline as campaign donations from insurance corporations have increased.”
Carpenter continued: “SiCKO is a shot in the arm for HR 676, a bill that addresses our healthcare system’s central problem: That for-profit insurers treat and cure nobody while sucking billions of dollars out of the system in bureaucracy, paperwork, advertising, sales commissions and exorbitant profits and executive salaries.”
Movie clips from "SiCKO"
http://www.reelzchannel.com/moviedetail.aspx?movieid=226829
The House bill – authored by PDA advisory board member Rep. John Conyers – was endorsed by Michael Moore at a spirited rally Wednesday on Capitol Hill. HR 676 already has 75 co-sponsors. PDA activists will be out in force this summer leafleting for HR 676 at “SiCKO” screenings nationwide, beginning with sneak previews this Saturday in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Cleveland and many other cities. Contact Tim Carpenter (413-320-2015) for more details.
The Conyers bill/HR 676 is endorsed by dozens of labor, civil rights and consumer organizations, as well as thousands of physicians who have witnessed the takeover of healthcare by private insurance companies.
“Over a period of decades,” said PDA director Tim Carpenter, “we’ve watched Democratic leaders’ commitment to national health insurance decline as campaign donations from insurance corporations have increased.”
Carpenter continued: “SiCKO is a shot in the arm for HR 676, a bill that addresses our healthcare system’s central problem: That for-profit insurers treat and cure nobody while sucking billions of dollars out of the system in bureaucracy, paperwork, advertising, sales commissions and exorbitant profits and executive salaries.”
Movie clips from "SiCKO"
http://www.reelzchannel.com/moviedetail.aspx?movieid=226829
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