Mental HealthHealthcare Advocates To Protest Secretary Sebelius Visit
HHS Secretary Proclaims: "Single-Payer is Not Part of the Discussion" Allows Health Insurance Corporations to Continue Patient Abuses
What
Nurses, patients, doctors, and other healthcare advocates will protest Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius" visit to San Francisco. The health advocates will protest Secretary Sebelius" recent assertion that "single-payer is not part of the discussion." This statement reflects the desire by Washington politicians to keep their insurance donors at the heart of the healthcare industry-despite their long record of patient abuse.
When
Monday - June 22nd, 11 a.m.
Where
Fairmont Hotel - 950 Mason St., San Francisco
Why
"Secretary Sebelius seems quite proud that Washington politicians are barring and discussion or consideration of the single-payer systems flourishing in other countries. Nurses, however, are dismayed because we know this is really a recipe for more waste, fraud, profit-taking, and abuse committed by health insurance corporations against the patients we see every day. We will never be able to provide comprehensive or quality care as long as we"re also subsidizing insurance industry overhead," said Geri Jenkins, RN, co-president of the National Nurse Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association.
California Nurses Foundation