Orange County Healthcare For All!

NO ON H.R. 3200!

NOT ONE MORE BAILOUT!

H.R. 3200 is the worst of all possible worlds for consumers and taxpayers. It creates a mandate to purchase taxpayer-subsidized health insurance plans that offer limited benefits and have high out-of-pocket expenses. It grants a huge windfall (aka bailout) to private health insurance companies, while still leaving millions of people at financial and health risk.

The so-called "public option" will do nothing to alter this scheme. We will still have a dysfunctional health care system organized around private health insurance companies. "Public option" will give these corporations a strong incentive to dump their sickest (and costliest) patients on the backs of taxpayers in order to make more money. Millions will still be left under- or uninsured and those who can afford it—even if they are eligible for taxpayer subsidies—may end up paying higher premiums and deductibles and get less healthcare in return.

If anything, the "debate" over "public option" has channeled peoples’ energy away from joining together and fighting for a plan that has a proven track record of bringing about real change: single payer healthcare!

EXPANDING "MEDICARE-FOR-ALL" IS THE REAL PUBLIC OPTION

Single-payer healthcare (aka "Medicare-for-All") is the real public option for the American people. It would save more than $400 billion per year nationwide in healthcare costs: enough to provide comprehensive, high-quality coverage for all. But President Barack Obama and Democratic Party politicians deliberately kept it off the table because their election campaigns were largely funded in record amounts by the multi-billion dollar insurance, pharmaceutical and for-profit health services industries who stand to make hundreds of billions in profit from H.R. 3200.

With single-payer healthcare, patients will regain choice. For ordinary Americans’ health and pocket books it means hospitals and doctors will have more time and money to spend on care rather than on complicated insurance billing schemes. And most of all, for the silent majority of Americans and American doctors, every man, woman, and child will be covered for all medically necessary services such as prescription drugs and medical supplies, hospital and doctor, including dental and vision, preventative and emergency, and mental and reproductive health care.

SINGLE-PAYER MARCH & RALLY

Healthcare for People, Not Profits! Expand Healthcare, Not Warfare!

Monday, September 14th, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Gather at Main & 4th Streets in Downtown Santa Ana

(March to the Federal Building)

INITIATED BY: OC Healthcare For All!; OC Communities for a Democratic Society; CODO Verde / OC Greens; OC Catholic Worker; and OC Peace Action.

ENDORSEMENTS: California Peace Academy; Lincoln Republicans; Social Justice Committee, Unitarian Universalist Church in Anaheim;Patrick Henry Democratic Party Club of OC; Progressive Democrats Against Another Bailout; Santa Ana Food Not Bombs. (More endorsements pending)

For more info contact droberts@ochealth4all.org, www.ochealth4all.org, (714) 235-6083