Happy Birthday Medicare! On July 24, 2017 Medicare will be 44 years old!

Let's wave our signs and show our support outside the Prince Kuhio Federal Building!

A group of single payer supporters started a group called Millions Marching for Medicare 4 All, and they have called for a national day of rallies in support of HR676 Improved Medicare For All. Sign Wave for HR676 Improved Medicare For All on July 24 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

This group, http://www.millionsmarchingformedicare.org/ is leading the way in getting all of us to persuade our congressional representatives to learn about how HR676 Improved Medicare For All provides affordable health care to all Americans, *** and American Territories, and to unregistered guests as well, *** and does that while still charging the tax payer less than our absurdly high insurance premiums.

How is this possible? The answer is fairly simple, and has two main parts. We will have teach-ins ongoing, provided by members of the Hawaii Democratic Parties Health Committee, explaining

Part One:

How eliminating private health insurance saves hundreds of billions of dollars.

Part Two:

How HR676 repeals Medicare Part D. This truly horrific law, passed in 2003, is responsible for the unlimited drug price increases Big Pharma inflicts on the public.

There are many 'talking points' against a national health care plan.

"How do you pay for it?" Simple. We stop paying one trillion dollars per year for 100% useless private health insurance company bureaucracy. Please watch www.fixithealthcare.com and read up on www.pnhp.org for a full education on how you can explain how this plan both lowers the cost of health care and covers all Americans and territories and undocumented guests.

At this event, we will pass out handy guides for promoting Medicare For All.

Senator Schatz is not a supporter. All of us need to call his office and ask for meetings. Call his office and express yourself. Walk over to his office anytime you like, and simply share your thoughts with his staff. Post on his FB pages, on his twitter, on his Redditt. He asks for input; provide yours!

We'll gather at 3:00 pm at the main corner of Punchbowl and Ala Moana Blvd, sign wave, talk story, and enjoy some 'teach ins,' with a few special guest speakers TBA soon.

Rather than just waving signs, we should increase the quality of our message delivery.

Some thoughts on how to do that are:

1. Your own 'We need Medicare For All' sign, or, something 'creative:' Tomb Stone signs, etc.  
2. Rotating a group of 15 people every 15 minutes, who walk up to his office, and in a very respectful way, express the point of view that insurance companies stand between us and affordable health care, therefor Senator Schatz's unwillingness to talk about health care without the ACA is lacking.
3. Other choreographed ways and means to amplify the point.
4. In any case, we have four members in congress. Tulsi is the only one who supports HR676 Improved Medicare For All. Thank you, Tulsi!

We need to keep asking the other three to consider the many benefits of health care without health insurance.

Share your march ideas here!
Share your theme here!
You are the leader we've been waiting for!

Please ask organizations that you are a member of to endorse this March. They can list their name in the comments, or email singlepayerhawaii@gmail.com

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Endorsers:

Womens March Hawaii
Senator Josh Green
Save Medicaid Hawaii
Hawaii Democratic Party Health Committee
Progressive Democrats of Hawaii
Shiatsu & Massage Center
Add Your Name Here!

Tweeting Suggestions:

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#hihealthcom might become the hashtag for the Hawaiii Democratic Party Health Committee

what do you think?

what should our hashtag be?

#alohahealth ?
#hawaiihealth
#hicare
#wecarehi
#hiwecare

I like that last one.