Transcript Retirees for Single Payer Health Care

Retirees for Single
Payer Health Care
Healthcare-NOW
2010 National Strategy Conference
Philadelphia, PA
November 13 & 14, 2010
A group of retirees dedicated to
the passage of National Health
Care (HR 676)
We are for giving every resident of the
United States and the U.S. territories
access to all medically necessary health
care services including vision and dental
with no co-pays or deductibles regardless
of employment, income or health status.
EVERYBODY IN NOBODY OUT
We are for the conversion of all health care
providers to a not-for-profit service where
illness is no longer a source of wealth for a
few.
NON-PROFIT HEALTH CARE
We are for paying for that expanded
coverage by maintaining the present level of
federal and state funding for health care as
well as turning the premiums now paid to
private medical insurance companies into
Medicare premiums that are shared by every
employee and employer.
SINGLE PAYER
We are not for just surviving!!!
Our mission is to educate,
demonstrate, and learn.
OUR MISSION
Educate - to that end we developed a
speakers program last winter.
SPEAKERS PROGRAM
“THE HISTORY OF THE
FIGHT FOR NATIONAL
HEALTH CARE AND ITS
FUTURE”
Frank Goeddeke, Jr. PhD
• UAW retiree from GM (Locals
652 and 653)
• Was on staff of National
Organizing Department of
the UAW
• Past President of Graduate
Assistants United, an
AFT/NEA union representing
the University of Florida’s
graduate assistants.
JANUARY 25, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND THE STATES”
David Apsey, DDS
• Bachelor of Science and
DDS from the University
of Michigan
• Practicing dentist since
1985.
• Member of Physicians
for a National Health
Plan
• Secretary of Central
United Methodist Church
in Detroit.
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE AND
UNIONS”
Al Cholger
•
United Steel Workers staff
representative
•
Organized for Single Payer Health
Care since 1990
•
Co-Chair of the Michigan Coalition
for Healthcare-NOW!.
•
Member of the Steering Committee
of the Labor Campaign for Single
Payer
•
Represents the USW on the
Economic Alliance of Michigan,
dealing with healthcare spending.
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE AND
FREE CLINICS”
Mary Ellen Howard
•
Native Detroiter, a Sister of
Mercy, and a nurse
•
Health care administrator of
Mercy hospitals across
Michigan for 20 years,
including as CEO in Grayling
and Muskegon.
•
Executive Director of St.
Francis Cabrini Clinic of Most
Holy Trinity Church, the oldest
free medical clinic for
uninsured persons in the
nation.
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND THE 2010
CONVENTIONS”
Al Benchich
•
Past President of UAW
Local 909
•
Delegate to 5 UAW
Conventions
•
Helped organize Auto
Workers Caravan
•
Retired from GM after 36
years.
March 1, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND MEDICAID”
Maureen Taylor
MARCH 8, 2010
•
Masters Degree in Social
Work from Wayne State
University
•
State Chairperson for the
Michigan Welfare Rights
Organization, a state
affiliate of the National
Welfare Rights Union.
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND IMMIGRANTS”
Olivia Boykins
•
Went to Haiti within days
after the devastating
earthquake.
•
Involved in community and
business development in
Michigan, Washington,
D.C., Mississippi and other
areas of the U.S. for over
20 years.
•
Congressman John
Conyers Jr. subject matter
expert in Michigan for the
United States National
Health Care Act (HR 676).
March 15, 2010
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND MICHIGAN”
Marjorie Mitchell
•
MARCH 22, 2010
Executive Director of the
Michigan Universal Health
Care Access Network
(MichUCAN).
“NATIONAL HEALTH CARE
AND THE ROAD AHEAD”
Al Gladyck
•
Member of UAW Local 7
Retiree Chapter
•
Member of Retirees for
Single Payer Health Care
MARCH 29, 2010
Demonstrate – to that end we
developed a lobbying program last
spring.
LOBBYING PROGRAM
Congressman John Conyers, Jr. has vowed to keep
introducing HR 676 “The United States National Health
Care Act” Or “Expanded & Improved Medicare for All”
as long as he is a member of Congress. The 535
members of the Senate and House are the only people
in this country who can make it the law.
WHY LOBBYING?
Rally for National Health Care Sponsor
U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr.
APRIL 12, 2010
Rally for National Health Care CoSponsor U.S. Representative Carolyn
Kilpatrick.
MAY 3, 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S.
Representative Thaddeus McCotter.
JUNE 7, 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S.
Representative Sander Levin.
JULY 12, 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S.
Representative Gary Peters.
AUGUST 9, 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S.
Representative John Dingell.
SEPTEMBER 13. 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S. Senator
Debbie Stabenow.
OCTOBER 11, 2010
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the office of U.S. Senator Carl
Levin.
NOVEMBER 15, 2010
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
In the UAW, it appears that a business
union is declining and a social activist
union is rising as a result of the
economic crisis.
WE ARE MOVING FROM THE
PAST TO THE PRESENT
Demonstration for National Health
Care at the UAW’s Solidarity House.
MARCH 1, 2010
Rally for National Health Care at the
UAW’s 35th Constitutional Convention.
JUNE 13, 2010
Organize what you
know for National
Health Care (HR 676).
Make Congress the
focus of the struggle for
National Health Care
(HR 676).
Stay ahead of the
changes that the
economic crisis is
creating.
MOVING ON TO THE FUTURE
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS
Educate
Demonstrate
Learn
Thank You, Retirees for Single
Payer Health Care