JOIN OUR WINOGRAD FOR CONGRESS CONTINGENT - Speak out for Single-Payer Healthcare – Call on Congressman Waxman to order a financial analysis of single-payer. Demand Congress put single-payer on the table!

SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2009 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

MEET AT NW CORNER OF 3RD & FLORES (8339 W. 3RD ST. L.A.)
$2. parking at the Beverly Connection then walk E. on 3rd several blocks to Flores.

RSVP to stefletcher@earthlink.net to say YES, I'll be there to hold Winograd for Congress yard signs & participate in the march.

Please join Winograd for Congress 2010, the Los Angeles Chapter of CaPA/PNHP in collaboration with HCA, PDA, CNA, and Unions for Single Payer for the largest single payer march of 2009. These organizations and others will meet at La Cienega and 3rd St in Los Angeles (8339 3rd St, LA 90048) at 9:30am on Saturday, July 11, put on white coats, nurses uniforms and patient gowns respectively, drink coffee/eat croissants, and then begin a march/rally on 3rd St and La Cienega followed by a press conference in front of Congressman Waxman's office. As Chair of the House Commerce Committee, Congerssman Waxman could order a financial analysis of single-payer. We need to push him to do that!

Sponsored by

California Nurses Assoc.
Physicians for a National Health Program
Unions for Single-Payer Healthcare
Progressive Democrats of America
HealthcareforAll.org
California School Employees Assoc.
Endorsed by: Winograd for Congress 2010

Huffington Post - Single-Payers Crashing the Gates

Read article below by Marcy Winograd.

"Congressional Budget Office (CBO), has yet to perform a financial analysis of the cost of implementing single payer...(CBO) takes its orders from Congress, specifically the leadership, (House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader), as well as the chairs of various committees." -- Rep. Waxman is Chair of Energy and Commerce Committee.

"One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.

Case in point: the accounting arm of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, has yet to perform a financial analysis of the cost of implementing single payer, a system whereby taxpayers--businesses and individuals--pay into a single general fund which covers everyone's health care for the rest of their lives, regardless of job or health status. Studies in California and Colorado have shown that a single payer system would save money for businesses, families, and government by eliminating private insurance overhead and creating enormous purchasing power that would drive down the costs of care.

I wanted to know why we don't have federal government cost projections for single payer, so I called the Congressional Budget Office -- and reached an answering machine.

Two days later, Melissa Merson, the Communications Director with the CBO, called me back and left a polite message, explaining that the CBO takes its orders from Congress, specifically the leadership, (House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader), as well as the chairs of various committees:

Finance (H-Barney Frank, D. Massachusetts; S-Max Baucus, D. Montana)
Health, Education, and Labor (S-Ted Kennedy, D. Massachusetts)
Budget (H-John Spratt, D. South Carolina; S-Kent Conrad, D. North Dakota)
Appropriations (H-David Obey, D. Wisconsin; S-Daniel Inouye, D. Hawaii)
Ways and Means (H-Charles Rangel, D. New York)
Energy and Commerce (H-Waxman, D. Los Angeles)

"We are fully aware there are members of the public who would like us to provide a cost estimate of single-payer," said Merson, "but we are inundated with requests from committees of jurisdiction. The priorities are set for us by the Congress."

To read more go to: Huffington Post - Single-Payers Crashing the Gates and post a comment...

Thank you for your support,
Marcy Winograd