Bellevue Healthcare Town Hall:
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Date and time: Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7PM.
Where: Eastshore Unitarian Church, 12700 SE 32nd St, Bellevue, WA 90005. The meeting will be held on the first floor of the activity building ("Spring Hall"), which is the leftmost (westmost) building when walk up from the parking lots.
Directions: http://www.eastshoreunitarian.org/directions.htm. About 1/4 mile north of Factoria Mall, half a block north of I-90, about two blocks west of Richard's Road. If you're coming on I90 from Seattle or Mercer Island, get off at the Richard's Road exit, turn left at the light and go under I90. Then make a left at the second traffic light, across from the gas station, onto SE 32nd St; the UU Church will be about a block and a half ahead of you on the right. If you're coming from the direction of Issaquah, you should get off at 56th St and follow Eastgate Way up to the traffic light at Richard's Road, turn right onto Richard's Road and make an almost immediate left at the traffic light onto SE 32nd St; the UU Church will be about a block and a half ahead of you on the right.
Agenda: Registration and networking from 6:30PM. Event begins at 7PM sharp with an excerpt from the excellent film Health, Money, and Fear. Guest speakers will start presentations at about 7:15 PM. Questions & answers with discussion from 8:00 PM til 9:00 PM.
Organizers: 41st LD Democrats and Western Washington chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP-WA)
Speakers (Click here for more detailed biographies.)
- Martha Koester, Health Care for All - Washington, Physicians for a National Health Program;
- Don Mitchell, M.D, Physicians for a National Health Program;
- Dorene Robinson, RD CDN, Precinct Commitee Officer, WA 41st LD Democrats;
- Sarah Weinberg, M.D, Physicians for a National Health Program.
Contact: Don Smith (206-819-5965, ThinkerFeeler@yahoo.com), Don Mitchell (206-722-6959)
Call your lawmakers! Please phone your lawmakers to let them know your views.
Lawmaker Phone number of local office Phone number of D.C. office Senator Maria Cantwell 206-220-6400 202-224-3441 Senator Patty Murray 206-553-5545 202-224-2621 Rep. Dave Reichert 206-275-3438 202-225-7761 Web resources of interest
Physicians for a National Health Program
Washington chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program
Health Care for All Washington
Open Congress (lets you track bills and amendments)
Bill Moyer's Money Driven Medicine
Sick Around America, Frontline, KTCS9
Dana Goldstein Explains the Public Option C-Span, Washington Journal
Progressive Democrats of America's Health Care page
The Truth about the Drug Companies, New York Review of Books
The Cost Conundum, New Yorker article by Atul Gawande on health care costs
Response to John Carlson on health care reform