Health Care not Warfare

Sunday, December 11
Noon - 1:30
Jefferson and Rt 25 (Perrysburg at Levis Commons)

Billions of dollars are being spent every year on wars that have only brought pain and suffering to the world. Private health insurance and pharmaceutical companies continue to rake in record profits and pay out massive bonuses. Yet, 30 million Americans are left without health insurance and millions more go under-insured.

The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) aims to expand coverage to about 30 million Americans by requiring people to buy private insurance policies (partially subsidizing those policies by government payments to private insurers) and by expanding Medicaid. However:

• About 30 million people will still be uninsured in 2023, and tens of millions will remain underinsured.
• Insurers will continue to strip down policies, maintain restrictive networks, limit and deny care, and increase patients’ co-pays, deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs.
• The law preserves our fragmented financing system, making it impossible to control costs.
• The law continues the unfair financing of health care, whereby costs are disproportionately borne by middle- and lower-income Americans and those families facing acute or chronic illness.

Whether you are already a strong single-payer proponent or could still use some convincing, we urge you to join us in a grassroots movement that advocates health care over warfare and corporate greed.

For more information visit SPAN Ohio and Physicians for a National Health Program

Join us and become a voice for peace and true security in the US and around the world.