Free healthcare events with Dr. Dean upcoming in Denver, Des Moines, and Portland.

[madfloridian]

From DemConWatch blog:

The "Stand With Dr. Dean" tour

Gov. Howard Dean, M.D., is hitting the road this summer. He's holding healthcare events all across the country to push for real healthcare reform. Join Gov. Dean at one of the dates below to hear about the importance of a public plan and what you can do to help reform healthcare.



Denver - May 27, 2009
First Unitarian Church
1400 Lafayette
Denver, CO
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
RSVP online at: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/drdeandenver
Admission is free

Des Moines - May 28, 2009
First Unitarian Church
1800 Bell Avenue
Des Moines, IA
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
RSVP online at: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/drdeandesmoines
Admission is free

Portland - June 5, 2009
Portland Community College
12000 SW 49th Ave
Portland, OR
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
RSVP online at: http://www.democracyforamerica.com/drdeanportland
Admission is free to Portland event, but attendees must RSVP online to receive tickets

[madfloridian]

1. Kick for those in those cities who want to attend.

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[me b zola]

2. K&R

[KoKo]

3. Good for HIM! We need some fire on the LEFT!

Trashed by this Administration and sent off without any reward for his "50 State Strategy" he forges on.

[madfloridian]

4. True words....he just keeps on.

The way they treated him is almost like the Conservadems are treating us on the heath care and other topics.

[bigwillq]

5. Thank you, Dr. Dean!

:bounce: K and R!

[L0oniX]

6. Bill Moyers tonight ...said it all.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/05/singlepayer_is_nationalized_he.html

[madfloridian]

7. Another kick

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[eridani]

8. If you are attending, please pass out this handy info--

You'll have noticed that the Obama health care principles say nothing about a public option. www.1payer.net has some very useful tools to make sure the administration gets the message.

Your faxes are working. Congressional aides and congresspersons who don't support singlepayer yet are begging to be let off the hook. Single payer supporters inside the halls of Congress are saying "Keep up the pressure." They are seeing concrete results.


SinglePayer has moved from being the elephant in the room that no one talks about to being the elephant in the room that EVERYONE talks about. Even Nancy Pelosi has been forced to allow singlepayer congressmen into the 'inner circle' secret discussions of health care reform.

Let Congress hear you. SEND YOUR FREE EFAX:
http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/no-forced-insurance.html

No Forced Insurance.

We Don't Want To Keep Insurance Companies In Business.

We have sent so many faxes to Congress this month that our vendor has increased the fax allotment ten times. That's a lot of faxes. That's also a lot of money. We urgently need your help and your donation to keep going. Even though we have the cheapest service on the planet, we still are spending nearly $700/month just to send your faxes. That is surely going to increase with this fax campaign. We can't shut down fax machines on Capitol Hill without spending this money. We need your help. We need your donation.

[madfloridian]

9. You do realize that Dean does not advocate for single payer...

He thinks it is unrealistic to try to shut out the insurance companies and won't happen. Single payer would shut them out, and that is not going to happen.

He fears we will not even get a government run option alongside the private options. That public option is what he is working for.

He thinks the only way to get single payer is to get the foot in the door through the government option along with the private ones.

I doubt he would have them arrested, though, like Baucus has.

I just hope people are courteous to him and don't shout him down at these events. After all there is room for both views.

With the power the insurance lobbyists have right now...I agree we will be lucky to even keep Medicare.

[eridani]

10. We won't get any kind of a public option unless we advocate for single payer

If you want to sell your used car for $3000, you'd better ask for at least $5000.

[madfloridian]

12. But there is becoming a battle between the two which is not good.

It should be working together, but it does not seem to working that way.

Many of the single payer leaders are critical of Dean's leadership on this, though he is actually being practical about it.

[eridani]

13. Practicality is leading with your top demand.

Demand the perfect, and you might wind up with something good.
Demand the good, and you might wind up with something mediocre.
Demand the mediocre, and you are guaranteed to wind up with something that totally sucks.

[KoKo]

11. Kick...this seems to be going to Achrives...Righ Wing has Cheney/Gingrich...

Some of us have "Dr. Dean." We used to depend on Al Gore... We needed to move on.