ABLE/Gamaliel
Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment
Health Care Reform:
More than 46 million people in United States have no health insurance and millions more are inadequately insured.
Atlanta stands to bear a particular burden since the Grady Hospital crisis, which will disproportionately affect the poor.
ABLE’s health care platform centers around 3 proposals:
1) promote the financial solvency of Grady Hospital by requiring all counties served by Grady Hospital to contribute
their share of tax money, establish an equitable formula for the reimbursement of Medicaid costs, and adequately
fund EMS and trauma care for uninsured
2) expand Peachcare to include all kids—i.e. universal healthcare for Georgia’s children, and
3) establish maximum retail prices for prescription drugs, in line with the Federal Supply Schedule, which would
reduce the excessive out of pocket expense for those who rely on prescription drugs
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Gamaliel
National Clergy Caucus Statement on Health Care
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane."
---M.L. King, Jr.
As in all injustice and inequality, those most effected are the poor,
people of color and people who do not
know people in high places. And eventually all will be effected and
infected.
Single Payer, Medicare coverage for all would leave no person residing
in this country out of needed health care.
HR 676 presently in the U.S. House of Representatives, states the provisions of this care, offers full benefits, with
no added insurance provisions or costs. It is the policy that now protects 40 million U.S. Americans, and would
expand for them too, to cover conditions not now covered.
The nationwide volunteers working to make this happen,
www.healthcare-now.org, provide information on this.
Any of us can join in on this effort to make it happen. Check out the web site and see what you can do to offer
healthcare to all of us, justice and equality in healthcare for all. Come to see, hear, and learn what you can do.
Marguerite S. Rece (Margie)
Healthcare Now. For single payer, universal health care for all.
ABLE is a multi-racial, interfaith regional coalition of congregations, unions and grassroots organizations that develops
and empowers ordinary people to become leaders who effect change in their communities for the common good of all.