Nurses, Doctors, Patients, Rally In Des Moines, Iowa Outside White House Forum On Healthcare, Monday

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Article Date: 20 Mar 2009 - 5:00 PDT

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WHAT:

Press conference and rally at Monday's White House Forum on Health Care Reform in Des Moines, Iowa, to express support for single-payer national health insurance, and demand that Congress include single-payer reforms in its debate and discussion, including U.S. Rep. John Conyers' HR 676

WHO:

A broad coalition of healthcare reformers brought together by the Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare, which includes the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association (NNOC/CNA), Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), Healthcare Now, and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). Speakers will include:

Geri Jenkins, RN, Co-President, NNOC/CNA
Leslie Heemsbergen, RN, Iowa
Ronald Lind, M.D., anesthesiologist, St. Charles, Iowa
Jess G. Fiedorowicz, M.D., psychiatrist and clinical investigator, University of Iowa

WHEN:

Monday, March 23rd @ 9:00 a.m.

WHERE:

Polk County Convention Center,
501 Grand Ave, Des Moines, IA
WHY:

"We can look around the world's other industrialized democracies and see very clearly that a guaranteed healthcare system, such as an expanded and improved 'Medicare for All,' is the only way to provide patients with the care they need. We will come to Iowa to make sure that Congress hears from the nation's nurses as it is drafting this life-and-death legislation," said Geri Jenkins, RN, Co-President of NNOC/CNA.

"The prescription for reform being offered by President Obama and by leading figures in Congress - a hybrid of private health insurance plans and government subsidies - will not resolve the problems of our dysfunctional system," said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of PNHP. "We've seen such hybrids repeatedly fail in more than a half-dozen state-based experiments. The only effective remedy is a single, publicly financed system, one that removes the inefficient, wasteful, for-profit private health insurance industry from the picture."

Source
California Nurses Association