Progressive Democrats of America Launches "Healthcare Not Warfare" Campaign
Let's help out our friends at PDA by supporting this fantastic campaign!
From the PDA website:
As PDA board member Norman Solomon pointed out in this article, “nearly one in six Americans has no health insurance, and tens of millions of others are woefully under-insured--while the war in Iraq continues to further skew the U.S. government's budget priorities.”
We say “Healthcare NOT Warfare” and ask you to join our campaign.
The time has come to redirect unnecessary and wasteful military spending to meeting human needs.
Among those needs is the healthcare crisis and we're focusing our attention on the Democratic Party by gathering signatures on a petition to prioritize "Healthcare NOT Warfare." The signed petition will be distributed to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic Committee Chairman Howard Dean, and your member of Congress.
In addition, we hope to pass resolutions to support “Healthcare NOT Warfare” at the upcoming local, state, and national Democratic conventions, and in cities, counties, and states across the country.
Please, sign the petition, and join us in this effort by taking action on one or more of the following items:
Host a House Party--get your “Healthcare NOT Warfare” materials and house party kits, here.
Download the flyer to distribute at meetings and events. Use it to bird-dog congressional candidates!
Download the sample resolution, change it to meet your needs, and pass it at your local and state Democratic Parties, cities, and counties.
Click here for additional resources and action items.
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The Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Position Paper #2 Healthcare
Defining the Crisis
The Progressive Caucus of the CDP asserts that healthcare is a right, not a privilege for those people living in the United States. As the richest country in the world, we have the ability to provide healthcare to everyone, yet we choose not to. The World Health Organization acknowledges that: “Healthcare can be catastrophically costly and much of the need for care is unpredictable, so it is vital for people to be protected from having to choose between financial ruin and loss of health.”
Read the whole paper....
The Healthcare Committee is actively working on developing the position paper on healthcare. After pursuading the Platform Committee of the Democratic Party to include "single payer healthcare" in the platform, we committed to hosting a Healthcare forum at the next EBoard meeting in August, to be held in San Francisco. If you are interested in helping with the Single Payer Healthcare forum, please contact Jo Olson at chocojo@sbcglobal.net.
