The Minnesota State Fair- Promote the Minnesota Health Plan
It's the Great Minnesota Get Together
Thursday, August 26th through Monday, September 6th
We are at the Minnesota Farmers Union Booth (just inside the Snelling gate) every day from 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. promoting the MN Health Plan and gathering petitions and postcards in support.
VOLUNTEER for a 2-hour shift!
E-mail info@muhcc.org for more details.
Don't miss this fun and important opportunity! Can't volunteer? Stop by and visit the MN Health Plan table at the Farmers Union building!
A DFL Row Over Single-Payer? It Could Happen!
Lori Sturdevant
Star Tribune
July 10, 2010
Just when I was about to pronounce this year's DFL gubernatorial primary campaign a pale, issueless comedown from the party's policy brawls of yore, my phone rang. The caller was Jeremy Drucker, spokesman for Matt Entenza's campaign. He'd noted my posted observation from a Duluth forum about how Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Yvonne Prettner Solon (Mark Dayton's running mate) echoed each other in support of moving Minnesota toward a single-payer health care system...
...Single-payer health care could produce an argument worthy of a DFL primary fight, thought I, and about something that matters, to boot. Health care amounts to about 9 percent of the total state economy -- more if the medical-device and insurance industries are thrown in...
... But unlike those rows of yesteryear, this one is about something central to government and critical to the state's future. So keep talking, candidates, while I put these bugs in voters' ears: It's not possible to fix the state budget without fixing health care. Unless exploding health care costs are checked, they'll eat away at the capacity of state government to do anything else in years not far ahead.
Mobilize for the MN Health Plan- Advocacy Training
Mobilize for the Minnesota Health Plan- Training
Saturday October 23rd, 2010
9:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. (lunch included)
Saint Peter Minnesota
St. Peter Community Center
600 South Fifth Street
Saint Peter MN 55906
Attend this dynamic training to learn about the MN Health Plan and gain the skills to be an effective advocate, organizer or leader on the issue. In this fast-paced workshop you will hear from a legislator, about the contents of the bill and how it will cover Minnesota. Hear from a panel of physicians why single-payer is the best solution to our health care mess. Learn why the Federal bill was only a first step and how to dispel myths and answer the hard questions about single-payer. Learn to be an effective citizen lobbyist, and how to organize people to take action on the issue.
There is tremendous momentum for single-payer in Minnesota. Don't miss this opportunity to help make it happen!
Full Day Training - *Suggested donation $25 - lunch included
(no one turned away for lack of funds).
Morning presentation only - register here
Full day workshop including advocacy training - register here
Watch for more information in the next few weeks.
Rochester House Party- Learn About the Minnesota Health Plan
Please join us Wednesday September 15th, 7:00-9:00 p.m. for a special conversation about the Minnesota Health Plan!
Learn what it is, why it will help solve the budget crisis and how we can get it passed
Ann Settgast M.D. from Physicians for a National Health Plan will discuss why single-payer is the fiscally responsible way to assure affordable health care for all Minnesotans
"The Minnesota Health Plan provides affordable health care for all Minnesotans. It costs less and covers more. It puts you in the driver's seat; you choose the doctor you trust and get the care you need when you need it. And you have peace of mind knowing your coverage can't be taken away."
At the home of:
Karen and David Bakken
3847 Darcy Drive NE
Rochester, MN 55906
Please RSVP to David or Karen at 507-285-1393 or dbakken1@msn.com Map
Event Sponsored by the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
www.muhcc.org 651-641-4073
Open Letter to Single-Payer Supporters
Senator Bernie Sanders, Representatives Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers write of the path forward for single-payer
It reads in part:
"Now that a new health care bill has been signed into law, it has never been more important to have a strong movement behind Medicare for All... We are encouraged by the progress already garnered in multiple states toward guaranteed health care and we will continue to work hard in Congress to clear any obstacles in the way... We believe that Medicare for All is inevitable in the United States. It is up to all of us to determine when the inevitable becomes the reality."
"Stop in the Name of Health"- Activist Flash Mob Protest
Activists in New York City Mark Medicare's 45th Anniversary
Single-Payer System is sustainable, Responsible
Letter to Editor
Star Tribune
June 23, 2010
by Amy Lange
Executive Director
Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition
It's heartening to see single-payer health care being debated by gubernatorial candidates. Our next governor will have the opportunity to enact the Minnesota Health Plan, a sustainable and fiscally responsible solution to our health care mess. The spiraling cost of health care is a huge contributor to the state's current budget crisis. This is precisely the reason we must enact a single-payer system like the Minnesota Health Plan.
Our current system is unsustainable. Tweaks, mandates and corporate insurance bailouts will no longer work. The Minnesota Health Plan would save money, lowering the per-person cost of health care and giving working families and small businesses relief from the crushing burden of health care costs. And by focusing on prevention and primary care, the plan would keep people healthier and more productive.
Vermont Passes Health Care Bill- Could Lead to Single-Payer
Vermont Health Care BIll, S88, Becomes Law Without Governor's Signature
May 28,2010
by, Art Edelstein
Vermont Business Magazine
A multi-part health care bill (Senate 88) became law yesterday when Governor Douglas declined to either sign it or veto it, thus letting it become law without his signature. The health care bill, S88, passed both houses of the Vermont Legislature on May 11, the last day of the 2010 session.
The legislation would support aspects of the state's ongoing attempt to keep health care costs in check and lead to universal access for all Vermonters...
...Under the new legislation the (Vermont Health Care Reform) Commission is charged with hiring a consultant who would be charged with designing three options for implementing a system of care that provides universal access. As stated in the bill, one design needs to be a single payer system, one a public option, and the third design is not yet known. Read full article
Download the Vermont legislation (new language starts on page 47)
