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Green Party Forum on Single-Payer Health Care Funding Friday 3:30pm in Durham, NC
The Green Party will present a public forum on the need for a Single-Payer health care funding system on Friday, July 24 from 3:30-4:30pm as part of their 2009 Annual National Meeting in Durham, North Carolina. The forum, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the Miller-Morgan Building on the North Carolina Central University Campus. The building is located on Nelson Street, and is accessible from Fayetteville Street.
On Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 7pm, the Babylon Green Party Gathering will feature a showing of Michael Moore’s film, “Sicko”. www.BabylonGreens.org The event will be held at Pisces Café, 14A Railroad Avenue, Babylon, NY (631-321-1231)www.piscescafe.net map) Come hungry! For directions to the Babylon Green Gathering, call 631-422-4702 or email ian.wilder@yahoo.com Children are welcome. All gatherings are free of charge, and open to the public.
QUOTES FROM FORUM PRESENTERS:
“Nearly every industrialized country of the world, and some countries whose economies may be described as “developing” or “emerging”, recognize the right to health care by funding quality, affordable health care through a single, national funding source and guaranteeing access to health care by law. The US, on the other hand, has the highest per capita health care expenditure in the world, and it significantly lags behind other Western countries in health care quality (according to the World Health Organization) and in major indicators of health, such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Continued reliance on any form of employer-based private health insurance will perpetuate the low quality and the poor outcomes of our health care system regardless of the empty promises of the insurance industry and corporate health care institutions.”
Dr. Jonathan Kotch, Board President of Health Care for All NC and senior faculty member at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
“President Obama says that he wants to bring down health care costs and expand coverage for all Americans. Yet health insurance legislation recently proposed by Congress will only increase costs by adding more layers of bureaucracy while leaving large numbers of Americans uninsured. The plain truth is that for-profit health insurance and its administratively wasteful smorgasbord of plans must go. Single payer is the only plan that will provide all Americans with health insurance while significantly reducing costs.” Dr. Justine McCabe, Co-Chair, GPUS International Committee, former Co-Chair, Green Party of CT, and Ph.D. alumna of Duke University
“Making a decision about the clear benefits of Single Payer is very simple when we put the health of our family and neighbors at the center. Here in the Triangle the shadow of Blue Cross & Blue Shield which employs nearly 5,000 residents and claims over 3.5 million “participants” looms so strong over our representatives at the State House, that consideration of what would truly be the best for all of the state’s residents is clouded at best. We have to make the voices of the millions who know and live the need for real reform heard over the rhetoric and “spin” of well paid lobbyists and public relations specialists.” George Friday, Forum Moderator and Co-Chair, North Carolina Green Party
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We have a tendency in America to argue for or against a concept based on our own personal philosophy or view of the world, what advances our personal interests, or the interests of our party, family, organization, or region. Perhaps viewing the issue from a management or systemic perspective might result in innovative approaches to the issue. The American national mindset, citizen philosophy, lack of citizen motivation to be proactively healthy, and governance model make the socialization of health care in America very problematic, particularly at this point in time. A country needs to know its limitations.