Cynthia Campbell--Victim of Cancer and Blue Cross--to Speak at Massive May 8 Sacramento Rally for Guaranteed Healthcare - Heartbreaking Video Featured at www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org
Cynthia Campbell, RN, who is fighting both cancer and the upcoming loss of her health insurance, will join more that 1,500 nurses and patients at a massive May 8 rally in Sacramento to fight for Sen. Sheila Kuehl's ground-breaking SB840 and against Gov. Schwarzenegger's plan for an insurance industry windfall. Campbell's video story is featured as Webisode 5 of the online series "Real Patients Denied Real Healthcare" at www.GuaranteedHealthcare.org, an activist Web site that will launch on May 8th in conjunction with the rally.
Both the online campaign and the rally are sponsored by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, which is working for passage of SB 840 to establish a guaranteed healthcare system on the single-payer model, with genuine universal coverage, comprehensive and uniform benefits, effective cost controls, and an end to insurance industry interference with delivery of care.
What: Massive Rally for Guaranteed Healthcare
When: Tuesday, May 8, 12 Noon
Where: California State Capitol North Steps, Sacramento
"Nurses have fought insurance companies, HMOs, hospital chains, and anyone else who would let our patients suffer from inadequate care. Genuine reform, like SB 840, is the only effective way to ensure we achieve the humane healthcare system Americans want and deserve," said Deborah Burger, RN, and CNA/NNOC president.
Guaranteed Healthcare on the single-payer model, similar to Medicare for All, will allow patients to choose from among private doctors and hospitals who are paid from a national, non-profit fund As has been proven in developed nations around the world, this is the only way to guarantee healthcare for all. In addition to SB 840, CNA/NNOC supports U.S. Rep. John Conyers' similar national bill H.R. 676. Both SB 840 and HR 676 will save billions of dollars, by capturing insurance industry waste and returning it to patients and the care system.
Representing 75,000 RNs from California to Maine, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee is the fastest-growing association of direct-care RNs in the nation. Learn more at www.CalNurses.org |
