FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Dems Turning Ohio Blue
An All-Star lineup of progressive leaders will tour Ohio on behalf of the Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign. The Healthcare NOT Warfare Road Show is raising public awareness and congressional courage to support real change in health care.
Tim Carpenter, National Director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA); Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign co-chair
Donna Smith and
Adrian Campbell, (both from the Michael Moore movie
SiCKO and health care reform advocates for the California Nurses Association--CNA/NNOC);
Michael Carano of Single-Payer Action Network of Ohio (SPAN Ohio); and a spokesman from the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) to be announced; will lead several rallies and events in the Cleveland, Akron, and the Youngstown areas.
Bill O'Neill, candidate for Congressional District 14, will also speak at two of the events. Mr. O'Neill, a registered nurse and former Judge, will share his knowledge of our current system and the need for change. This coalition is calling for the best solution to the health care crisis--a doctor/patient-run, publicly financed, privately delivered single-payer system as designed by Rep. John Conyers' House Resolution 676.
PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter said, "Health care is a prime issue of the 2008 campaign, as thousands of Americans lose their jobs and their health care. Our national organizations including PDA, CNA/NNOC, PNHP, and the state organization SPAN Ohio are pushing candidates and elected officials to adopt a real solution. We need an efficient, patient-centered system not dominated by the profit motive. Our organizations demand comprehensive health care, and we're hardly alone. Polls show most doctors and a majority of the American public favor national healthcare--a real solution to the healthcare crisis."
Carpenter added, "The insurance industry remains the main obstacle to a less expensive, more efficient health system designed to provide care to patients rather than emphasize corporate profits. The current private insurance-based health coverage system increases corporate profits by denying care. The members of our GOTV Bus Tour hope to lead the United States in joining every other industrialized nation in the world by implementing an expanded and improved Medicare-like system focused on health care, guaranteed to take care of people, and promote wellness for all Americans. This would actually save the taxpayers $billions and improve health care for all Americans."
For an updated schedule of events, please
click here.
For background information on the groups participating in the Bus Tour, please see the following links:
Progressive Democrats of America,
www.pdamerica.org
Single Payer Action Network of Ohio,
www.spanohio.org
California Nurses Association,
www.calnurse.org
National Nurses Organizing Committee,
www.calnurse.org/nnoc
Physicians for a National Health Program,
www.pnhp.org
Rep. John Conyers' H.R. 676,
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00676:
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