Buy tickets now for the Great Single Payer Debate
Wed. 7pm May 23 in SF
110 The Embarcadero, SF 94105
Tickets are $25 – This is sure to sell out
https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-05-23/great-debate-single-payer-health-care-california
Dear Healthcare Activist,
You do not want to miss this debate. Buy your tickets ($25.00) today as it sure to sell out.
See Commonwealth Club notice below.
Use this link. https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2018-05-23/great-debate-single-payer-health-care-california
Thank you.
Don Bechler
Chair – Single Payer Now
415-695-7891
PS I had a hard time signing up on the link and called them at 415-597-6705
THE GREAT DEBATE: SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE IN CALIFORNIA
Fed up with our dysfunctional U.S. health-care system, many Californians are calling for a state government-run health plan for all residents. Senate Bill 562, which passed in the state senate last year, puts a single-payer plan on the table. Candidates for governor—as well as clinicians, advocates and voters—are split. Everyone wants access to quality care at lower costs, but is single payer (or “Medicare for all”) the answer? Supporters point out that nearly every other developed country has some form of single payer, and all cover more citizens at lower cost than the U.S. Skeptics say that single payer would be too expensive and disruptive, as several other states have found.
Can California afford single-payer health care? Can the state afford not to have it? Dr. Paul Song, co-chair of the group behind SB562, and Micah Weinberg, who heads a think tank focused on economic and policy issues facing the Bay Area, will debate the pros and cons of SB562 specifically and single-payer health care generally.
Paul Song
M.D., Co-chair, Campaign for a Healthy California Coalition; Board Member, Physicians for a National Health Program; Chief Medical Officer, ATGen Global
Micah Weinberg
Ph.D., President, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
