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DESCRIPTION:What:  Panel discussion:  Protect and expand Medicare;  and the status of 
 California's single payer legislation\nWhere:  ILWU Local 6, 255 9th 
 Street, San Francisco \nWhen:  Today, Saturday, April 23, 3 to 5 pm  \nWho: 
 \n	Greg Brockbank:  Chair, Health Care for All-California\n	Claudia Chaufan 
 MD, PhD:  VP of the Physicians for a National Health Program-California, 
 Assistant Professor of 			Health Policy at UCSF\n	Michael Lyon:  Gray 
 Panthers\n	Jean Tepperman:  Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club\n	and 
 representatives from California Alliance for Retired Americans and Single 
 Payer Now   \n\nToday, Saturday, April 23, in San Francisco, a panel of 
 experts and activists will discuss the current threat to Medicare posed by 
 Congressional conservatives and what we can do about it.  Congressman Paul 
 Ryan and the Republicans have proposed that we "save" Medicare by 
 converting it into a voucher program, which single payer advocates say 
 would subsidize health insurance companies, but not provide adequate 
 coverage to seniors in the future--it would essentially destroy Medicare.  
 In contrast, single payer advocates want to protect Medicare and expand it 
 to everyone in the country.  Medicare-for-all, also known as single payer 
 healthcare, would eliminate the health insurance industry and replace it 
 with a single government office, much as Medicare program does for seniors 
 today, which would give everyone in the country lower cost and universal 
 access to healthcare.   Don Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now, says:  
 "Anyone who cares about the current and ongoing abysmal lack of equitable 
 access to health care in the United States should demand that President 
 Obama and Congress not only protect Medicare but expand it to everyone in 
 the country, via HR 676, the federal legislation that would establish a 
 single payer system in our country".  The latest developments in regard to 
 California's single payer legislation, SB 810, will also be discussed.   \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/23/18677887.php
SUMMARY:Protect Medicare from privatization and expand it to all: Panel today in SF
LOCATION:ILWU Local 6 Hall, 255 9th Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/04/23/18677887.php
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