Citizens action group

 
PRESS RELEASE—FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
 
June 4, 2009
“Do the Right Thing”
Health Care Rally-- Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at Noon, City-County Building
Contact: Ron Biendseil, rbiend@charter.net  PH:  608-836-1920
CELL:  608-712-6831

 The citizens’ action group, Dane County Grassroots Network, will conduct a rally in support of single-payer health care on Wednesday, June 10 at noon on the steps of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., in Madison. The group’s primary purpose is to urge the Obama administration and Congress to “do the right thing” by the option of a single payer health care plan.

Speakers will include members of the medical and health care community as well as individuals whose lives are affected by lack of adequate health care. 

The Madison chapter of the international social action group, The Raging Grannies, will perform.
 
The Dane County Grassroots Network believes that health care for all is a right, not a privilege, and should not be a commodity to be purchased only by those who can afford it. The group advocates for a single-payer, government funded health-care system much like the present Medicare system. The single-payer approach is
(1) The only reform proposal to date that would provide truly universal coverage; and
(2) The most efficient and cost-effective means of delivery of health care.
 
Various reputable national polls over the past year have consistently shown that almost 60 percent of the population in the U.S. prefers a single-payer system.  These polls demonstrate that the public both
(1) Understands that that a fundamental injustice inheres in the denial of health-care coverage to 45 million people in a country as wealthy as the U.S.; and
(2) Has lost faith in a system in which big insurance companies profit by denying proper care to the insured.

Health care should be a basic civil right, not a source of profit for insurance companies.