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DESCRIPTION:The politics of solving the national healthcare crisis:  San Francisco 
 physicians, medical students and activists to speak out & organize to get 
 the insurance industry out of healthcare.\n\nOn Saturday,  November 17, 
 2007, 3 pm, at 626 Pacheco Street in San Francisco, members of the Bay Area 
 medical community who attended national healthcare reform meetings in 
 Washington DC, and Chicago will report on the latest strategies for solving 
 the US healthcare crisis with "single payer"*, drawing upon their 
 experiences at both the Healthcare-Now and the Physicians for a National 
 Health Program conferences.\n\nSpeakers:  \nRichard Quint, MD, California 
 Physicians Alliance and Professor Emeritus, UCSF\nJohn Shearer, MD, Family 
 Physician, Chair of the California Physicians Alliance\nHank Abrons, M.D., 
 MPH and Li-hsia Wang, M.D\nLaura Petrillo, and Amanda Yeaton-Massey, UCSF 
 Medical Students\nMichael Lyon, Gray Panthers\nDon Bechler, Chair of the 
 California Universal Health Care Organizing Project\n\n"The health 
 insurance industry is the single greatest barrier to healthcare reform in 
 the United States today" says Don Bechler, chair of CUHCOP.  "On November 
 17,the public can hear the latest ideas from the medical community on 
 winning universal healthcare with single-payer*".\n\nCUHCOP (the California 
 Universal Healthcare Organizing Project) is a San Francisco grassroots 
 association of health care reform volunteers supporting Universal Single 
 Payer Healthcare for California since 1994, and supports the passage of SB 
 840, the California Health Insurance Reliability Act.  For more information 
 about CUHCOP:   call 415-695-7891,  email dbechler@value.net or go to:  
 www.singlepayernow.net\n\n(*which means eliminating the health insurance 
 industry--to provide healthcare for all, through California¹s  SB 840 
 and/or the federal version, HR 676, sometimes described as "Medicare for 
 all" or "Guaranteed Healthcare".)\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/12/18460451.php
SUMMARY:Curing our dysfunctionl US healthcare system
LOCATION:626 Pacheco Street,  San Francisco (near 10th Ave, # 6 MUNI bus )
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/12/18460451.php
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