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DESCRIPTION:Single payer activists to celebrate Medicare's 46th Birthday and push for 
 "Medicare for all" in SF today, Saturday July 30, one of over 40 similar 
 events around the country\n																										 Today, on Saturday, 
 July 30, in San Francisco, Bay Area single payer supporters will celebrate 
 Medicare's 46th birthday and call for it's expansion to everyone in the US, 
 for universal health care and major cost savings.  It's one of many such 
 events around the country 
 (http://www.healthcare-now.org/takeaction/events-calendar/).   Before 
 Medicare was established by law in 1965, only 51 percent of Americans 65 
 and older had health care coverage and 30 percent of them lived below the 
 poverty line.  Today, virtually all Americans 65 and older have health care 
 coverage and only 7.5 percent of seniors live below the poverty line.\n  
 																										Medicare is the best example of single payer 
 health care in our country, in that it relies on just one, government 
 office.  It stands in stark contrast to private insurance-based healthcare, 
 which drains away about one third of each healthcare dollar to pay for 
 paperwork and profits.  This celebration is an opportunity for a panel 
 representing several Bay Area community organizations to say what Medicare 
 means to the people they serve.   They will not only say why it should be 
 protected from current attempts in Congress to cut or change it, but will 
 also make the case that it should be expanded to give everyone in this 
 country access to healthcare via a national single payer system.  This 
 "Medicare for all" would provide everyone living in the US full access to 
 the health care providers of their choice, completely eliminate the health 
 insurance industry, and as a result save government budgets and individuals 
 hundreds of billions of dollars.\n\nWHAT:  Panel discussion with 
 q&a\n\nWHEN:  Today, Saturday, July 30, 2011, 3 to 5 pm\n\nWHERE:  255 
 Ninth St, ILWU Local 6 Union Hall, San Francisco, California\n\nSPEAKERS 
 PANEL:\nCarl Finamore: former President Air Transport Employees, Local 
 1781, IAMAW & current SF Labor Council delegate\nBarry Hermanson: Co-chair, 
 California Green Party Coordinating Committee\nFlora Luo and Jimmy Nguyen: 
 Core Member and Youth Organizers with Chinese Progressive 
 Association\nMichael Lyon: Gray Panthers\nGordon Mar: Jobs with 
 Justice\nRachel Schapira: Potrero Hill Democratic Club\nKathy Lipscomb:  
 Senior Action Network\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/29/18686442.php
SUMMARY:Why We Support Medicare for All and SB 810, The California Universal Healthcare Act
LOCATION:255 Ninth St, ILWU Local 6 Union Hall, San Francisco, California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/07/29/18686442.php
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