Action Opportunity for Single Payer Healthcare

Written by: Kevin Shaw on Jul 27, 2008 10:27 AM EDT

Medicare's 43rd Birthday Celebration

Support the Healthcare-NOW! Campaign to Celebrate Medicare’s 43rd Birthday!

Visit Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz's office at 706 West Avenue in Jenkintown to deliver a cake and birthday cards with local supporters of Universal/Single-Payer Healthcare to mark the occasion and encourage her to co-sponsor HR676 along with Chaka Fattah and Bob Brady.  We plan to be there at 2PM on Wednesday, the 30th.  It will be a short visit and hope that you can attend. If you cannot attend, please contact her here: http://schwartz.house.gov/issue_subscribe.shtml

Medicare’s 43rd Birthday is July 30th - Medicare is known as one of the most successful social programs in the United States. Its universal coverage for those 65 and older creates the ability to redistribute benefits to those who are neediest, it pools risk in order to share the burdens of health care among the healthy and the sick, and through Medicare, the government protects the rights of all beneficiaries to essential health care without putting profit interests first. Medicare beneficiaries are overwhelmingly satisfied with their coverage, and now it is time to give improve and expand this wonderful program to everyone in the country! Support HR 676, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All!

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Location: Philadelphia, PA