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DESCRIPTION:Healthcare YES! Insurance Companies NO!\nProtest the Insurance Companies'  
 Convention in SF\n\nThursday, June 19, 12 Noon\nMoscone Center West\n4th St 
 at Howard, SF\n\nOn June 19, hundreds of people from all walks of life will 
 demonstrate in San Francisco at the national convention of health insurance 
 companies.  For years, these companies have bankrupted us, denied us 
 healthcare, and ripped apart the social safety net. Now they want to force 
 themselves down the throats of our 47 million with no health 
 coverage.\n\nWe demand single-payer healthcare: equal, comprehensive, 
 low-cost, accessible healthcare for everyone.  It would be delivered by 
 today's doctors, clinics, and hospitals, but paid for by a single, 
 publicly-accountable government-operated agency. No insurance companies!   
 In California, it’s SB 840. Nationally, it’s HR 676.\n\nInside the 
 convention, executives of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) will meet 
 with top political and policy advisors of both parties to create "universal 
 healthcare" by forcing everyone to buy private health insurance.  Everyone 
 pays unaffordable premiums, deductibles, and co-pays.  Poor people  get 
 worse care.  Government spends billions to (barely) help poor people pay 
 their premiums.  It’s welfare for insurance companies and Katrina-care 
 for us.\n\nOutside, at our demonstration, nationally-recognized advocates 
 and legislators for single-payer healthcare will speak, along with health 
 workers, victims of insurance abuse, long-time union members with no 
 healthcare, seniors for whom Medicare is not enough, and people driven into 
 poverty by healthcare costs. \n\nNational attention will be focused on this 
 convention because of the healthcare crisis, so this is a rare opportunity. 
  Everyone knows somebody who has been hurt by insurance companies or the 
 lack of healthcare. Let’s throw these parasites’ sugary words of 
 concern for the uninsured back in their teeth. Healthcare YES! Insurance 
 Companies NO!  Please call 415-695-7891 for more information.\n\nFor a list 
 of groups bringing people and leaflets, go to www.singlepayernow.net\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/16/18499694.php
SUMMARY:Protest the Health Insurance Companies' Convention in SF!
LOCATION:Moscone Center West\n4th St at Howard, SF\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/16/18499694.php
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