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DESCRIPTION:Health Care Reform Report from the Campaign Trail:\nWhere do the Democrats 
 stand on universal healthcare?\nDoes Obama’s plan bring the U.S. closer 
 to health care reform, or will he allow the health insurance industry to 
 continue to stand between Americans and our health care?\n \nOn Sunday, 
 Sept. 14, two leading experts on politics and health care will discuss how 
 the Democratic Party and their nominee for President, Barack Obama plan to 
 address the current health care crisis;  and whether Obama’s health 
 reform proposals, if implemented, will help to resolve it.\n \nMichael 
 Lighty, Policy Director for the California Nurses Association (CNA),  
 and\nNorman Solomon, Co-chair of “Healthcare NOT Warfare” and member of 
 Progressive Democrats of America (PDA), are the featured speakers.  Solomon 
 recently returned from the Democratic National Convention, where he was an 
 Obama delegate.\n \nThe Democrats made a commitment to “guaranteed 
 healthcare” in their convention platform, but what does that really mean? 
  Lighty and Solomon will address the question: Do Obama and the Democratic 
 Party at the national level have a vision that will bring us closer to 
 universal, single-payer health care? \n                                     
                                                                             
                                                                             
                            \nSingle payer health care would eliminate the 
 health insurance industry in the U.S,  and its\nprofit-driven approach to 
 medicine.  It would  make health care available to everyone living in the 
 U.S.  and finally bring US healthcare accessibility in line with virtually 
 every other industrialized nation in the world.  The US ranks 37th in the 
 world on measures of the health of its citizens, yet we pay about twice as 
 much per person for that level of health care, while leaving about 50 
 million Americans uninsured.\n \nIf elected to office, would Obama be 
 likely to support the national single payer legislation, HR 676, a.k.a. 
 "the United States National Health Insurance Act", authored by Rep. John 
 Conyers of Michigan? And what can citizens do to promote single-payer 
 health care reform legislation, the only cost-effective and universal 
 solution to a crisis that worsens the economic squeeze on employers and 
 middle- class Americans, while leaving Americans less healthy and making 
 the U.S. less competitive with other nations?\n \nThis event is sponsored 
 by Single Payer Now and the California Universal Health Care Education 
 Project.\n\n \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/12/18536916.php
SUMMARY:Healthcare Reform Report From the Democratic Convention
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center, 2868 Mission Street, San Francisco (one block from 
 24th Street BART station)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/12/18536916.php
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