| Citizens Budget Campaign of Western PA. Acting for economic justice CBC supports budget priorities that provide for the common good & meet human needs. CBC opposes tax cuts for the richest Americans & other policies that widen the gap between the very rich and the rest of us. |
| PUSH Pennsylvanians United for Single-payer Healthcare ____________________________ 2005: the year to bring HEALTH CARE FOR ALL Pennsylvanians Help pass a state bill this year! Read why & hop on the bandwagon now! _____________________________________ Get a copy of new PUSH newsletter: Just Health Care News _________________________________ Governor plans cuts in PA. MEDICAID California Study: universal care cheaper |
| PUSH meetings USWA HQ Stanwix & Blvd. of Allies every 4th Saturday at 11 am February 26; March 26 PUSH NEWS Contact for Candlelight VIGIL dates PUSH Committees Political Action meets February 21, 2005 Agenda: PA. Healthcare for All Bill 6 p.m., 240 Mt. Lebanon Boulevard Dr. Scott Tyson TysMar@aol.com ___________________________ Outreach/Education meets March 15, 2005 Agenda: brochure/build for bill/speakers 7p.m., 6335 Morrowfield Ginny Eskridge IMNRG@aol.com ------------------------------------- Education Mike Stout619@comcast.net Contact for new PUSH video/DVD Fund-raising Cynthia Vanda cvanda+@pitt.edu Coordinators in Harrisburg Pam Oddo POddo@pahouse.net Temporary PUSH website www.mollyrush.com --------------------------------- Support Prescription Drug Imports to PA. Resolution sponsored by Rep. Don Walko 717-787-5470 Help plan Congressional hearing in W.PA |
| Action Alerts URGENT! CONGRESS COULD PASS BUSH BUDGET WITHIN WEEKS if filibuster is ruled out the Senate will need just 51 votes to pass Bush wants big cuts in domestic programs NATIONAL/ LOCAL CAMPAIGNS SAY NO! MEDICAID CUTS Budget details _________________________________________ Give your representatives 12 reasons NOT to privatize SOCIAL SECURITY British Privatization a Failure BLACKS & SOCIAL SECURITY New: Tax the rich [CNN poll] ____________________________________ Job/income picture bad unemployment cuts Bush wants $100 billion or more for Iraq war Pushing around the poor: dismantle Section 8? New PA. customers pay higher utility deposits PA taxes : low & middle income pay more $137 billion corporate tax giveaway Economists rip Bush disastrous policies PA. pays more for war Members of Congress US Senators Western PA U.S. Representatives & Senators |
| New Books on the Health Industry 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 click to read interview 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 of the New England Journal of Medicine HarperCollins On the Take: How America's Complicity With Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Jerome P. Kassirer, former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine Oxford University Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business& Bad Medicine Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele, Pulitzer reporters, Doubleday Read TIME Magazine article Healthcare Can Be Cured |
| Links to budget groups CAMPAIGN ON HUMAN NEEDS 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 |
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