We need crowd canvassers and tabling volunteers to join HCAO at the Portland Rally for the Single-Payer Healthcare National Day of Action! People are gathering at events around the country today to demand universal healthcare.
This is the final event of our May Day membership drive and we're co-hosting the rally with many other local organizations working towards single-payer including Oregon Working Families Party, Portland Jobs With Justice, Bernie PDX, Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates, Nurses For Single Payer, and PNHP Oregon.
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Our health care system is broken beyond repair. Insurance companies and for-profit middlemen create barriers to care and massive administrative waste. These result in unnecessary suffering and deaths. For over 60 years, piecemeal reforms have resulted in higher costs and the worst health outcomes among comparable nations.
We demand the recognition by our government that health care is a human right.
We demand the elimination of private health insurance and the banning of for-profit delivery of care.
We demand the enactment of a publicly financed, national single payer program that would provide comprehensive coverage to everyone.
We demand that health care delivery be transformed from profit-seeking ventures into services organized to serve the people of our country, a system in which all caregivers are freed from corporate control.
The National Day of Action will bring people together locally and nationally from neighborhoods, unions, faith groups, businesses, and all types of civic organizations to join the demand to remove profit from health care. We must focus our collective anger towards corporate health insurers to bring real reform: put National Single Payer on the nation’s agenda!