Howard County Council Supports Medicare for All
December 21, 2020
Howard County Council supports of The Medicare for All Act – 2019, sends letter to local federal legislators (2 Senators and 3 Congresspeople) . 4 of 5 Council People signed the letter. From the letter: “A growing coalition has recognized the urgent need to expand healthcare to every resident of the United States, and we add our names to this effort. The below-signed members of the Howard County Council fully support the Medicare for All Act of 2019, and we respectfully encourage your support for this critical legislation.”
Howard_Council_Medicare_for_All_Support_Letter_9.24.2020.pdf
March 6, 2020
Write a letter to the Balt. City Council!
The Baltimore City Council may soon send a memorandum or resolution to Maryland’s Senators and Congresspeople asking them to support Medicare4All bills in Congress. Resident of Baltimore City? Member of a civic, religious, or social organization in the City? Get your group (or self) to write Councilman Kristerfer Burnett. Chair of the Healthcare Committee, who spearheads this effort. At City Hall, 100 North Holliday St. Ste. 500, Baltimore 21202 (kristofer.burnett@baltimorecity.gov). Send a copy to your own councilperson. Keeping the pressure up for Improved Medicare for All!
Petition for S 1804, Sat. Nov 3rd
July 6, 2018
Join Healthcare Now Md and Greater Baltimore DSA as we solicit petition signatures for Senate Bill 1804, the U.S. Senate single-payer health bill. At the “Greek” Festival in Baltimore, 24 West Preston St., downtown, 11 AM – 1 PM. Do hook up with other petitioners, and for exact time and place, contact Mitch Burns, mitchburns80@gmail.com or 443.386.1331.
Contact your Congressman/Senator!
October 27, 2017
A Single-Payer Bill has now been introduced in the US Senate–S.B. 1804 (the “Sanders” Bill). But Senators Cardin and Van Hollen have not (yet!) signed on to it. Contact them to do so! Thank Reps. Brown, Cummings, Raskin, and Sarbanes for co-sponsoring HR 676. And urge Delaney, Hoyer, and Ruppersberger to join them. And complain to Harris about his failure to do so!
Want to Share your Healthcare Story?
May 19, 2017
Want to share your healthcare story? Outrageous deductibles and co-pays? Cancellation? Bureaucracy and red-tape? Denial of treatment? Tell your story and have it posted to the new Healthcare as a Human Right blog. Email info@mdsinglepayer.org for more info.
Ruppersberger Campaign
May 3, 2017
Four Maryland Congressmen (Brown, Cummings, Raskin, and Sarbanes) have signed on as co-sponsors of HR 676 (House of Representatives single-payer bill). But NOT 2nd Cong. District Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger. Is he your Congressman? Would you be part of a small delegation from Healthcare-Now Md. to visit him and speak up for HR 676? If so, email info@mdsinglepayer.org and we will be in touch. Also, phone him at 202.225.3061. Or email him. (Go to Ruppersberger.house.gov). Let’s turn 4 Md. Congressmen into 5!
Gala March for Single-Payer in Baltimore
January 20, 2017
Chanting, “What Do We Want? Single-Payer” and “Healthcare is a Human Right, Join us, Join us in our Fight”, more than thirty people marched in the Healthcare is a Human Right-Maryland contingent in Baltimore’s Martin Luther King, Jr. parade on January 16th. Quoting Dr. King, the group’s lead banner read, “Of all the forms on inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” Participants from Baltimore City and Baltimore, Montgomery, Carroll, and Howard counties (and two people from Pennsylvania!) wore yellow and black Healthcare is a Human Right t-shirts. They carried an array of banners and signs advocating for single-payer, urging improved and expanded Medicare for all and opposing for-profit health care. The large crowd watching the parade responded enthusiastically to our message for universal healthcare. People cheered, repeated our slogans, and waved to us. As we passed the reviewing stand, the announcer urged the on-lookers to give us another big hand since, he said, the incoming president had vowed to repeal existing healthcare protections. Thanks to all who organized and attended this event.
New Single-Payer movie Available
December 1, 2016
Healthcare-Now Maryland has copies of the new 2016 documentary, “Now is the Time: Healthcare for Everybody.” 71 minutes, done by Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, makers of “The Healthcare Movie.” To borrow or schedule a showing among friends, email info@mdsinglepayer.org. And to borrow copies of older single=payer movies (“The Healthcare Movie” and “Fix-It: Healthcare at the Tipping Point” also email info@mdsinglepayer.org
Thom Hartmann The Big Picture: Single-payer 101
January 16, 2016
Robert Zarr, M.D. (President of PNHP), Eric Naumburg, M.D. (Co-Chair PNHP – Maryland) and Vijay Das with Public Citizen discuss the advantages of a single payer healthcare system. This show was in part a response to the debate between Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton over the value of single-payer; and also in part because of the recent mischaracterization of Senator Sanders healthcare plan by Chelsea Clinton. The show runs about 30 minutes and is in two parts, click on the links below.
Medicare Birthday Party held July 30th
August 17, 2015
About 30 activists served cake to passers-by and waved to rush hour commuters on 33rd and St. Paul Streets, Thursday evening, July 30th, 2015, the anniversary of the establishment Medicare. The purpose of the celebration was not only to celebrate the popular health insurance program for older Americans that was signed into law July 30, 1965, but to call for an expanded and improved Medicare program for everyone.
The event was part of a national day of action to highlight the continuing need for a comprehensive, universal health insurance program in the US. At lease 87 actions were held across 69 cities in 24 states that mobilized thousands of people.
In Baltimore, the response was enthusiastic and positive. Commuters passing through the busy intersection honked and waved. People walking by stopped to talk, accept an informational handout, and have a piece of cake.
The Baltimore event was sponsored by Health Care NOW! of Maryland; United Workers; and Physicians for a National Health Program, Maryland Chapter. These three organizations are partners in Maryland’s ongoing, “Health Care is a Human Right” campaign, which advocates for establishing a universal, single-payer health care financing system in the US.
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