Health Care Reform

Our Single Payer Rally was a success!! The press was there and we even got coverage on a local Cable Network. We Twittered about the event; PCN (Pennsylvania Cable Network) filmed the whole thing.

I enjoyed meeting Larry Smith, star of Michael Moore's SiCKO. He said he is able to travel a little more with wife Donna, who spoke at the rally. And both of them have been healthy since their illnesses, which was highlighted  in the movie SiCKO.

Pictured here is the very passionate Chuck Pennachio, who is front and center when it comes to passing Single Payer here in the Commonwealth. We are very fortunate and dare I say blessed to have him working for this cause here. Jerry Policoff and Chuck are instrumental in getting HB1660 to the point where it is, now.

I spoke with a few fellow Pregressive 4 Pennsylvania friends at the rally, and we discussed all the meetings we had for Single Payer sitting around Jerry's table, hashing out strategy and writing and rewriting brochures for the Single Payer HB 1660/SB 400.

And now here we are. At the rally.

Next week, four of us will be at the annual meeting for all the Mayors in PA, meeting at the newly opened Convention Center in downtown Lancaster. The meeting will last three days. This will mostly be an opportunity to discuss health care reform with all the Mayors, and all the other politicians who will be attending the event, including Health Insurance Executives.

Could there be a rumble??

The good news for all of us is that the Mayors have already endorsed Single Payer. So we do not have to convince anyone. We just have to show up.

Savings to the Commonwealth will be $353,000,000 when Single Payer is passed here in Pennsylvania.

Here is the check that we then took to Governor Rendell's office after the rally!!

Pretty impressive, isn't it?

I made a Squidoo Lens about the rally, complete with video footage and more pictures!!

These are indeed exciting times. I know that passing Single Payer is one of the biggest and most important event of my lifetime, and the best thing I can do for future generations, and also the best possible way I can be of service to my country.

But we do need more troops!! Please consider joining this great cause!!!

Kate Loving Shenk

Comments

[tom harner]

how refreshing to see your blog-it really represents democracy in action. how disappointing to see what the U.S. House has come up with, what planet are they living on? It was very disappointing to read the New York Times and to, once again, see the unified field of politics and lobbying in action. What the feds are coming up with is a crime-pure and simple.

t. harner

teacher and advocate for humanity

[D.D. Delaney]

It sounds as if you're right on the front lines. Go, girl, go! PA will have to lead the charge. VA sure won't!

[Kate Loving Shenk]

Thanks, D! We are very excited! As goes PA, so goeth the nation!!

[Order Carisoprodol]

That was really a huge amount of money! Well, I hope it was maximizely used in health care reform program!

[fioricet]

Congratulations!!! That's good to hear.. More power!!!