Gray Panthers on the prowl
Speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. Well aimed slingshots can topple giants.
-- maggie kuhn, founder
Private health insurance is like a hospital gown! Chances are you are not covered!
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Gray Panthers remain single payer advocates.
November 16, 2009
We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege. Universal single payer health care would not only ensure that all people had a decent level of health care but would also contain run-away health care costs.
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"Together We Walk, United We Stand for Health Care Reform"
A speech by Joan Davis October 7, 2009
On August 29, a rainy Saturday, New Yorkers walked through city neighborhoods urging passage of universal health care as embodied in the House and Senate HELP Committee bills, and in the spirit of Senator Edward Kennedy, who died just days before.
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Collecting Horror Stories for a Private Health Insurance Crises Quilt - Deadline Extended!
August 26, 2009
 Gray Panthers is collecting Health Care Horror Stories for a Private Health Insurance Crises Quilt. It is critical that we educate Congress and others about the need for real reform. We hope you choose to be a part of our project. We ALL need to work together to bring about a radical change to take the profit out of the health care system and give it to the people.
>> learn how to contribute Help Support a Single Payer Health Care Program
August 13, 2009
President Obama has said that now is not the time to implement a single payer health care program in America but we DISAGREE. And the Gray Panthers needs to keep banging the single payer drum and letting President Obama know that there are people who elected him into office that demand he do the right thing!
>> view the "single payer" action alert >> download "single payer" petition |
Take Our Health Care Challenge - We Dare You To
September 30, 2009
For those who believe that the United States should not have a single payer health care system or a public option as a part of current reform effort . . .
>> take the challenge Why Seniors Need Health Care Reform
September 9, 2009
Gray Panther Carroll Estes, Ph.D writes, "Before Medicare, half of older Americans had no health insurance. Because they have higher numbers of health insurance claims than younger persons, elders were shunned by private health insurers."
>> read on The truth comes out about the trashing of the facts in Michael Moore's SICKO
August 27, 2009
 Wendell Potter once served as the head of corporate communications at CIGNA, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies. In a recent interview with Bill Moyers, Potter explains what motivated him to leave CIGNA & to become an advocate for health care reform.
>> watch wendell potter with bill moyers on youtube Myths and Facts about America's Affordable Health Choices Act
August 17, 2009
Gray Panthers believe that the only REAL health care reform that would be fair and equitable to ALL people and would eliminate administrative and economic waste would be a single payer health care system. But unfortunately, the legislation being most discussed is America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. Because of the lies being spread about this legislation, we feel the need to address the Myths and Facts.
>> read "25 Myths and Facts" about America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 |
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united nations involvement
Through our accredited NG0 status with the United Nations, we communicate with activists throughout the world the need for democracy, peace, and social and economic justice for all people.>> more
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Washington, DC 20006
(800) 280-5362 or (202) 737-6637