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DOCTORS VERSUS HEALTH INDUSTRY LOBBYISTS

Date:
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Time:
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type:
Speaker
Organizer/Author:
Don Bechler
Email:
Phone:
415-695-7891
Location Details:
Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia Street, near 16th Street

Hear a talk by a physician who was arrested for civil disobedience at a U.S. Senate because she wanted single payer to be addressed. Q&A. Topic: Breaking the corporate stranglehold on Congress.
How did bold action in the U.S Senate Finance
Committee move the single payer healthcare option from off the table to a vote on to the floor of Congress?

Speaker: Dr. Margaret Flowers: Pediatrician and Congressional Fellow for the Physicians for a National Health Program.
On May 5, Dr. Flowers and 7 other healthcare activists spoke out in the U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing for the need for single payer healthcare to be discussed as a solution for our national healthcare crisis.
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) had the activists arrested.

Sponsored by Single Payer Now &
Co-Sponsored by the California Physicians Alliance
Added to the calendar on Fri, Sep 11, 2009 10:38AM
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