The Purpose of "The Walk for Health Care"

The Tompkins County Health Care Task Force will walk across the state of New York to promote a government insurance program like an improved "Medicare for All" that insures all residents in the United States with essential health care. We are hoping New York will lead the way, and to do this we must make our representatives accountable to the peoples concerns and wishes.

The purpose of the walk is:

We hope to make as many contacts as possible to help us work together, more closely and more informally, for a single-payer health care system not only for New York, but the United States.

We hope to help empower the people to make our New York representatives accountable for a dysfunctional health care system, And to explore why they have not acted for reform when there is so much wrong with our health care and so many people are suffering.

Our plan is to spend at least a day in each of the cities we will travel through, to share knowledge and take action on ways to create political will to give New York and the United States a single payer health care system.

We have worked for health care reform since 1990. We understand health care in America thoroughly, the system, the problems its causing, the solutions proposed, and the solutions that will solve its problems. We also understand other health care system in industrialized nations, the truths and the myths that has kept most Americans supporting a failing health care system.

Looking forward to meeting new faces, sharing knowledge, and working together.

Sincerely,

  Rebecca & Bernie

 

Tompkins County Health Care Task Force Ithaca, New York

 

 

 

 

            WALK FOR HEALTH CARE REFORM

  Hi Friends,
The Tompkins County Health Care Task Force is planning a walk for
 health care reform for the United States and New York.  We will 
start in Kingston with a kick off rally  and we will walk from Delhi

 to Jamestown. We hope to have a rally, town-meeting or just

 increase our contacts in the towns we come to.
 
   The route we will take is from Kingston, to Delhi, Oneonta, Norwich,
 Cinncinatus, Cortland, Ithaca, Watkins Glen, Elmira, Corning, Bath,
 Hornell, Cuba, Olean, Salamanca and Jamestown.  We are hoping to
 have a rally, town-meeting and make contacts in each of these 
communities.  We will take a bus back to Owego, walk to Binghamton,
 take a bus back to Ithaca and walk to Auburn, Waterloo and Geneva.
   We are in the process of setting up a rally/town-meeting in
 Kingston NY to start our trip.  The time for action is now: with 
the proposal for New York to set up a commission to study a health 
care plan for NY, a re-introduction of the Gottfried bill for
 universal  health care, cuts in medicaid, concerns about the
 Presciption Drug Law, and of course the need to reform New York's
 very dysfunctional health  care system. We will also be supporting
 John Conyers Bill 676 for a National Universal/Single Payer  Health
 Care Plan as well as pointing out that it is NOT Social Security
 that is in crisis, it is our Health Care System that is in Crisis.
  Our goal is to make our politicians accountable, we know what we
 want and we must generate some political will to respond to the many people going without health care coverage, food and/or medicine.

This walk will also be a tribute to Granny D who inspired us

 and for all her courage and compassion.Help us to bring a

system like "Medicare for All" to New York.

 On June 11th with a kickoff rally is planned in Kingston at 10:00 am
. on the Village Green with Maurice Hinchey as keynote speaker.
 
 
WE WILL WALK INTO ITHACA Tuesday JUNE 21ST FROM DRYDEN - LATE
 AFTERNOON AND A RALLY WILL BE HELD ON THE COMMONS BERNIE MILTON 
PAVILION 7:00 P.M. WE WILL HAVE SPEAKERS, SINGERS AND FUN - 
PLEASE JOIN US TO WALK AND AT THE RALLY.
If you would like to join us for part of this walk, would like 
to help organize an event for this or have contacts in any of
 these communities please call us Rebecca Elgie -(607)272-0621
 Or Bernie Fetterly cell 273-1622 or contact us at 
healthylink@earthlink.net
-to get updates  or post messages once we start walking  see 
our BLOG

http://healthcarereformithaca.blogspot.com/

TO POST MESSAGES: healthcarereform.earthlink@blogger.com