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The FAMILY & BUSINESS HEALTH CARE SECURITY ACT OF 2007 IS ABOUT TO BE RE-INTRODUCED IN THE PA. LEGISLATURE Act now: Call, Write, Meet with your legislators Tell them to co-sponsor the bill Contact info: www.congress.org, click on 'state officials' _______________________________________ Just Health Care/PUSH 1216 Grandview Ave., lower level Pgh. PA 15211 412-431-2075 www.just-healthcare.net e-mail Sandy Orr Join the struggle for health care for all! Dues $20/$10 low income Tell your story: justhc.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ PUSH REVOLUTIONARY TEA PARTY & general meeting Saturday, March 31 12 noon First Unitarian Church Ellsworth & Morewood, Shadyside _____________________________________ Affiliated groups: W. PA Coalition for Single Payer Health Care convener Sandy Fox meets on Monday, March 20, 7 pm, Sixth Presbyterian Church, Forbes & Murray, Squirrel Hill April 11: MORTON MINTZ speaks at CMU PA. Health Care Solutions Coalition www.pahcsc.org HELPFundPA www.helpfundpa.org _______________________________________________________ Massachusetts bill? click for report:Citizens Hearing on Single-Payer Health Care Chaired by U.S. Rep. John Conyers, May 2006 was a great success! ingle-payer healthcare highlighte Rep. Mike Doyle has agreed to sponsor HR 676 Thank him today. Contact info.: www.congress.org Rep. Jason Altmire & Rep Tim Murphy say "NO" _______________________________________________ California Study: Universal care costs less New England Journal of Medicine study agrees Medical Bankruptcies |
| PUSH ACTIONS meetings with representatives, post card and letter campaign and more. E-mail Sandy Orr or call 412-431-2075 Sign up for the PUSH e-mail list to receive occasional updates Join a Committee PUSH - Grassroots Action PUR/HC Education/Outreach SUPPORT HR 676 National Healthcare legislation in the U.S. Congress To volunteer: sandyatpush@yahoo.com |
| Articles & Information click on titles: WHY IS U.S. ECONOMY AT RISK OF COLLAPSE? PART I PART II Wages/salaries down, corporate profits up Greenspan Issues Warning on Deficit Analyses of Bush Tax Cut domestic budget Congressional Budget Office & Bush Corporate Giveaway wages down PA Loses Big on Federal Tax Benefits Key Economists Oppose Bush Policy Cuts in Veterans Benefits Working Poor Overtime cut Dollar Is Melting Down Dollar Is in Trouble Women and the Job Picture The Environment & EPA Cutting HUD housing for the poor ___________________________________ Testimony July 1, 2003 CBC Hearing on the Impact of Federal Budget on W PA. Budget Affects W. PA. Housing Childcare Catholic Diocese on Social Issues Environment Transportation Rep. Mike Doyle Remarks State & Local Issues Paying for War PA. Poor Pay More PA.Tax Disparities Opinion Buy the Myth That Inequality Is Good for Us Congress Is Boring I Have Six Children It Was the Best of Times doohnibor CBC TAX DAY SKIT script |
| Action Alerts SAY NO TO FUNDING FOR "SURGE" IN IRAQ www.congress.org _________________________________________ Good news! PA. votes to raise minimum wage $6.25 an hour as of Jan. 1; $7.15 on July 1, 2007 ______________________________________________ Congress passes minimum wage increase _____________________________________ click on: House gives gift to telecommunication companies at the expense of consumers ________________________________________ Income of richest 1% up 17%; bottom 99% adds less than 3% Does this add up? _____________________________ Federal Budget cuts affect domestic programs: food stamps, health care, college student aid, child support enforcement, & aid to elderly and disabled so Medicaid recipients will pay more. Updates: Coalition on Human Needs www.justharvest.org ______________________________________ click here Extend tax cuts for the rich? 52% of total handed to millionaires; and most of the rest went to families with incomes over $200,000 ...and the cuts don't create jobs Plus Congress wants to eliminate the estate tax WHY KILL THE 'PARIS HILTON' ESTATE TAX ON MILLIONAIRES? click here why tax cuts for the rich don't create jobs Tell your representative to vote NO ___________________________________________ click here Pentagon budget soars $439 billion +; $90+ billion for War & Katrina Military & Environmental budget issues _____________________________________ Why not tax the polluters? click here _______________________________ How did your Representative vote? click here click here for Senate votes $$$ INFLATION JITTERS BY ROBERT REICH Economists rip Bush policies PA. pays more for war MIA: Billions in Cash go missing in Iraq |
| Books on the Health Industry A must read: "Healthcare Meltdown" by Robert LeBow The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It by Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine, Random House Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks and Costs of Prescription Drugs by Jerry Avorn, Harvard Medical School, Alfred A. Knopf Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of America by John Abramson, physician and critic, New England Journal of Medicine HarperCollins Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business & Bad Medicine by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, Pulitzer reporters, Doubleday See TIME Magazine article: Healthcare Can Be Cured |
| KEEP UP-TO-DATE Links to budget groups CAMPAIGN ON HUMAN NEEDS Inequality issues Americans for a Fair Estate Tax Center for Tax Justice Center on Budget & Policy Priorities Economic Policy Institute Fair Taxes for All National Priorities Project United for a Fair Economy |
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