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If you’re an activist for single-payer “Enhanced Medicare for All,” you may be feeling a bit depressed and irritated that such an important solution to our healthcare crisis is so often marginalized. Having long campaigned for single-payer healthcare and HR 676 (“The United States National Health Insurance Act”), PDA has the cure for you: Michael Moore’s new movie, “SiCKO.”
The movie gives single-payer activists a chance to promote HR 676 to a much broader audience: mainstream movie-goers as they exit the theater. As they question why – unlike all other advanced industrialized countries -- U.S. healthcare is dominated by private insurance companies and corporate greed. You can be there offering a common-sense solution. So download the flyer here, put on your PDA shirt or button, go to a theater near you, and spread the word! But first, email your member of Congress to co-sponsor HR 676.
On Moore’s recent trip to Washington D.C., he participated in a well-attended press conference in support of HR 676, along with dozens of lawmakers including PDA Board members Rep. Barbara Lee and Rep. John Conyers, the bill’s primary author. See the video.
The PDA Healthcare for All Issue Organizing Team (IOT) is organized to promote single-payer healthcare nationally and at the state level. The team developed the PDA "SiCKO" campaign with the hope that single-payer healthcare activists nation wide will join with us to advocate for the passage of HR 676. The next conference call for this IOT takes place Wednesday, June 27, to discuss next steps in the “SiCKO” campaign. Please contact Diane Shamis to learn more and get active on this important issue.
Activists who flyered at the sneak previews around the country are reporting overwhelming support from the movie-goers--waiting lines formed just to get a flyer! Hook up with other activists at the premier near you by contacting local and state PDA coordinators. Find yours here.
Read the press release on SiCKO issued by PDA on June 22.
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