Heartland
Healthcare for All
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GET INVOLVED!
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pm at the Southwest Boulevard Family Healthcare Clinic.
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Can't make our next meeting?
We hold meetings on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of every month. Send us an email at heartlandhealthcareforall@gmail.com if you would like more information.
DIRECTIONS: The Southwest Boulevard Family Health Clinic is a metallic building with colorful sculpture yard art and is located on the North corner of Southwest Boulevard and Rainbow Blvd/7th Street Trafficway. We will be in the meeting hall on the northwest corner of the building. Parking is available behind the clinic.
Welcome!
Heartland Healthcare for All is a group of community members, doctors, medical students, nurses, other health professionals, and victims of the current health care system advocating for a sane solution to the crisis of healthcare access in the United States.
In December of 1948 the world came together through the United Nations to announce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Recognizing the inherent dignity of all members of the human family, Article 25 of that declaration states that access to medical care is a basic human right. In 2005, nearly 47 million Americans, or 16 percent of the population, were without health insurance (1). Furthermore, studies show that approximately 18,000 individuals die each year because they lack health insurance (2) and therefore have difficulties accessing basic medical care.
Every industrialized nation besides the United States has some form of socially guaranteed access to healthcare. Comparison between the United States and similar nations demonstrates that Americans pay significantly more per capita for healthcare than other peoples yet as a whole we experience worse health outcomes (3). We have reached a crisis point where millions of people are suffering for lack of basic medical care in the richest country in the world. Heartland Healthcare for All advocates a single national health insurance plan to cover all residents of the United States. A single-payer universal health insurance plan would be significantly more efficient, humane, and just. Please join us in our struggle to make high quality healthcare accessible for all.
1. DeNavas-Walt, C.B. Proctor, and C.H. Lee. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005. U.S. Census Bureau., August 2006.
2. Institute of Medicine. Insuring America's Health – Principles and Recommendations. The National Academies Press, 2004.
3. OECD in Figures 2006-2007 (PDF). Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.
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