HEALTH CARE NOW! Series on Channel 13:
As part of a national movement initiated by Healthcare -NOW to achieve a Medicare For ALL , Single Payer Universal Health Care Plan by 2009, we sponsored a citizen/congressional hearing on March 18th. This 4 part series will cover over 40 speakers giving testimony representing business, health care providers, politicians, social agencies, youth, seniors and many others being impacted by our current system. The hearing was co-sponsored by Tompkins County Health Care Taskforce, League of Women Voters, Tompkins County & Cortland Co., Finger Lakes Citizen Action & Social Justice Council of First Unitarian Church Ithaca.
Airing times :
Part 1 -Keynote Speaker - Tompkins County Health Care Task Force - Rebecca & Bernie, Marilyn Clement -Director of Health Care-NOW , Dan Lamb, (Office of M. Hinchey), Les Roberts Candidate 24th Congressional District), & Steve Greenfield (Candidate US Senate-N.Y.)
Wed. April 12, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Friday April 21, 1:30 -2:30p.m.
Monday April 24, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." -Martin Luther King Jr.