Stand Up For Single Payer Health Care!
Join Jobs with Justice, LGBTQ Allyship and United for Single Payer
as we fight for worker friendly Health Care Reform.
When: July 19th, noon to 2pm
Where: Bite of Seattle, Seattle Center on the corner of Denny and
Broad
What: Jobs with Justice is creating a street theater troupe called
“The Truth Squad” that will shed some light on real health care
challenges for workers, who’s benefiting from the broken health
care system, and what workers can do about it!
We are collecting letters from workers demanding Health Care For
All and delivering them to Senator Maria Cantwell’s office. (time
and date of delivery will be announced later)
If you are interested in being part of this emerging street theater
troupe please contact Debbie at deb...@wsjwj.org.
Background:
The health care industry is spending 1.4 million a day lobbying
Congress to keep the Public Option and Single Payer off the table.
Just this week the Senate has been contemplating making
comprehensive reproductive health care an ‘option’ for both private
and public health insurance programs. Health care reform must not
happen on the backs of women workers!
Health care costs are soaring and the system is out of control.
Employers are trying to pass these costs on to workers. States are
proposing deeper and deeper cuts in public health benefits—cuts
which affect more and more of the population, as fewer workers can
afford their employers’ plans. More than 41 million Americans have
no health insurance; 8 out of 10 uninsured are in working families.
This growing healthcare crisis affects workers, working families,
and entire communities. We are quickly heading for a collapse of
our healthcare system due to rising costs and increasing numbers of
people who are uninsured or underinsured.
As states throughout the country contemplate ever-deeper cuts in
Medicare and Medicaid, one in three Americans now rely on a
government health plan. A recent news report stated that many
working families “choose” Medicaid over employer-provided
insurance—but we know that there’s little “choice” involved, as
employers shift more and more of the skyrocketing costs of health
care onto employees, who simply can’t afford not to turn to
Medicaid. Over half of Wal-Mart’s 1.4 million employees do not have
health care coverage; corporations in all sectors of the economy
are slashing employee and retiree health care coverage.
-WAMA
