Guaranteed Healthcare

This is a speech I gave Before City Controllers In The State Of PA about how much money Pennsylvanians will save when we enact Single Payer Legislation!

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Healthcare for All Pennsylvania held a public hearing on HB 1660: the Family and
Business Healthcare Security Act on 3/18/09 at the State Capitol Building in
Harrisburg, PA.

Our audience was the Pennsylvania Rural  Republican Healthcare Caucus,
per invitation of caucus chair Representative Kerry Benninghoff, Republican of
Centre County, Northern Pennsylvania.

The testifiers were Dr. Bill Davidson, (cardiologist), Alan Jacobs, (business leader),
Janice Horn, (League Of Women Voters), Wes Fisher, (medical student), Chuch Pennacchio
(Executive Director Of Healthcare PA), and me, Kate Loving Shenk, (Nurse Healer).

This is testimony I gave to the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives to persuade politicians to pass HB 1660 and SB 300 here in the Commonwealth.

Today is October 28th, 2008, and I am Kate Loving Shenk.

I am going to start something new called "The Commentaries of Kate Loving Shenk."

Morton Mintz sat on our panel for "Guaranteed Health Care For All,"
a Forum that Progressives For Pennsylvania organized 9/18/08. He is
a media critic, freelance journalist at this point in his long and
illustrious (sixty year) career.

He was a reporter for two St. Louis newspapers, the Star-Times and Globe
Democrat from 1946-1958; and at the Washington Post, 1958-1988.

Morton Mintz wrote the article, "Single Payer: Good For Business"
for The Nation Magazine, November 15, 2005.

Jerry Policoff created a PA Business Healthcare Report based, in part,
on this and another Morton Mintz piece, as well as articles about
Single Payer in the New York Times, a survey from the Kaiser Family
Foundation, Pittsburgh Business Journal of Milwaukee and the
Philadelphia Business Journal.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing Medicare Bill into Law with Harry S.
Truman looking on!

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Last Thursday, September 18, 2008, Progressives For
Pennsylvania held our
second forum on the health care crisis in
Pennsylvania. This time, the focus
was on passing Pennsylvania's
HB 1660 and SB 300, both of which would
provide health care to all
Pennsylvanians in a Medicare model of health care
delivery.

This delivery system is publicly funded and privately
delivered, and
includes the free choice of physicians.

I certainly have nothing against socialized medicine, but
just to say, our
bill does not fall under that category, which
is publicly funded and publicly
delivered.