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DESCRIPTION:Virtual Vigil Supporting Healthcare Workers & Abolishing Healthcare 
 Profiteering\n\nJoin Put People First! PA, the Nonviolent Medicaid Army and 
 the National Union of the Homeless for this online vigil (in-person, 
 socially distanced protest vigils are being held in Pennsylvania). 
 \n\nHealthcare is a human right!\n\nFacebook event post: 
 https://www.facebook.com/events/710242249870620/\n\nFacebook livestream: 
 https://www.facebook.com/PutPeopleFirstPA/\n\nNational Union of the 
 Homeless YouTube channel: 
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCg1sQ5ALv-Z3bLMsajHCkA\n\nSaturday, 
 December 12, 2020 at 3:30 PM - 5 Pm PT (6:30 PM – 8 PM ET)\n\nPut People 
 First - PA\nPut People First- Altoona HRC\nPut People First PA Lancaster 
 Healthcare Rights Committee\nSouth Central PA Region, Put People 
 First\nNon-Violent Medicaid Army\nNational Union Of The Homeless\n\nTHIS 
 EVENT IS BOTH VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON\n\nWe will come together as healthcare 
 workers and all workers to show our support and appreciation for our 
 healthcare workers, to bring attention to the crisis we are in, and to show 
 how one of the best ways that we can appreciate healthcare workers is to 
 fight to transform the system that is putting all our lives at risk and 
 causing untold misery and death.\n\nThe workers inside our healthcare 
 facilities are under extreme pressure and stress due to a healthcare system 
 that places profit above human life. Many healthcare workers within these 
 walls will be diagnosed with PTSD as a result of the daily trauma they’re 
 facing in the workplace compounded with the everyday trauma of living 
 through a pandemic.That’s in addition to already putting their health and 
 the health of their families at greater risk by working in a high-risk 
 environment.This stress has a butterfly effect throughout families, 
 communities, and our nation.\n\nHealthcare corporations like Geisinger had 
 the entire summer to prepare for this fall surge and prevent the escalating 
 crisis we are currently facing. Instead, they chose to pay ever-increasing 
 profits to executives and invest millions of dollars in such things as 
 advertising. When profits are prioritized over people, our hospital systems 
 operate at high rates such as 85% or more capacity on a consistent basis, 
 and have little ability to scale up in the face of a widespread healthcare 
 emergency. Meanwhile in other places there are hospitals closing down 
 because they’re not generating enough of a profit, leaving communities 
 like Johnstown with no stable healthcare system and some places, like Pike 
 County, with no hospitals at all.\n\nThis will be a hybrid event allowing 
 for both socially distanced in-person actions in Pennsylvania as well as 
 the safety of virtual attendance. Our plan is to hold candlelight vigils at 
 local healthcare facilities, particularly ones which are at or nearing 
 capacity with COVID-19 patients and to host an online event simultaneously 
 that will connect to each in person vigil at the appropriate time.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838865.php
SUMMARY:Virtual Vigil Supporting Healthcare Workers & Abolishing Healthcare Profiteering
LOCATION:Online livestream
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838865.php
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