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DESCRIPTION:How Market Ideology\nand Corporate Power Are Killing\nOur Health Care 
 System\n\nAmericans don't have a health care system, they have a free 
 enterprise system beholden to corporate executives, shareholders and 
 investors from the industries that benefit the most from high costs. While 
 pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and medical product companies 
 profit, taxpayers are getting squeezed at an accelerating rate. Our 
 market-based, profit-driven health care system in the United States has put 
 necessary care increasingly beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Primary 
 health care, the fundamental foundation of all high-performing health care 
 systems in the world, is a critical but ignored casualty of the current 
 system. Unfortunately, primary care is often poorly understood, even within 
 the health professions.\n \nDon Bechler, chair of Single Payer Now (who has 
 worked for twenty years to pass Single Payer), will describe what has 
 become a crisis in primary care, define its central role, analyze the 
 reasons for its decline, and assess its impacts on patients and families. 
 He will also show the film, "The Health Care Movie" about the Canadian 
 Health Care System. Don Bechler will present a constructive approach to 
 rebuild and transform U.S. primary care with the urgent goal of addressing 
 the nation's problems of access, cost, quality and equity of health care 
 for all Americans.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/09/18747526.php
SUMMARY:Single Payer and Universal Healthcare Forum
LOCATION:Global Exchange office\n2017 Mission Street (near 16th St. BART 
 station)\nSan Francisco, CA  94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/12/09/18747526.php
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