Category: Local Actions

Demand Medicare for All at the AMA Annual Meeting

Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 1:30 PM – 3 PM CDT, Chicago, IL For years we have watched the American Medical Association — which claims to represent the values of physicians — put profits over patients. Last year, we watched the AMA use member dues to help fund the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future, […]

CALL TO ACTION (literally)

As some of you may be aware, the previous hearing for Medicare For All in the Rules Committee had multiple aggressive anti single-payer voices but no pro single-payer experts to discuss, in particular, the economic analysis of HR 1384. Lobbyists of the for-profit healthcare industries were allowed to succeed in pushing Congress back to the […]

What Would Expanded, Improved Medicare for All Look Like?

And how will we get there? Date and time: Feb.11 at 3-4:30pm AND 6:30-8:30pm Location: Richmond Free Library, 201 Bridge St., Richmond, VT What would expanded, improved medicare for all look like?  And how can we get there?  Come to the Richmond Free Library on Monday, Feb 11, for an interactive event led by doctors […]

Call-In Day to Congresswoman Jayapal: Protect HR 676

When: Jan 9 2019 (All day)Where: Overview:  Protect our beloved HR676 this Wednesday! Congresswoman Jayapal is expected to introduce a new HR 676 bill soon. She is currently revising the text of the bill.  For the past 16 years, HR 676 Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, has been introduced each Congress and has been considered […]

Movie Night: Big Pharma, Market Failure

People for Healthcare for Everyone, in alliance with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville, are happy to announce the screening of the movie “Big Pharma: Market Failure” at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hendersonville at 2 pm, Sun., Jan. 13 at 2021 Kanuga Road — at the corner of Kanuga Rd and Price Rd. in Hendersonville. The […]

Rally for Universal Health Care

This Wednesday is Universal Health Coverage Day, and there will be a rally from Noon to 1 PM  on Wednesday (12/12/18) at the Federal Building at 6th and Holly streets in downtown Medford to urge Senator Ron Wyden to join Senator Jeff Merkley in sponsoring SB 1804, which calls for Single Payer Universal Health Care […]

HOPE in the Midwest Event Calendar

Healthcare activists in Illinois have started a local HOPE chapter. Find a listing of the upcoming events below. If you are interested in starting a HOPE chapter, contact info@healthoverprofit.org. May 23 from 7 to 9 St John’s United Church of Christ, 1010 South Park Blvd, Freeport, IL We will be meeting to plan our strategy for the […]

Movie Night: The Power to Heal

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Location: Douglass Homes, 1500 East Lexington St., Baltimore, MD 21231 Join us for a showing of the movie “The Power to Heal,” followed by a discussion. The movie tells the story of how the civil rights movement won Medicare and Medicaid and desegregated thousands of […]