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Pennsylvania League Of Cities And Municipalities


The Mayors from all across the state of PA are coming to my hometown, Lancaster, PA. And I am one of four who will be networking about Single Payer with these distinguished people who serve their local municipalities, sometimes without any thanks, or gratitude!!

But I need to give them a card that explains my work with Single Payer--and got an AHA when I realized that a lensography of all my lenses on the subject would be the perfect website to send them to!!


PS This lens will be updated after the Big Event!!

Don Gallagher--Friend To Healthcare 4 All PA!!


Don and I had fun kicking around the new Convention Center in Lancaster PA where the PA League of Cities and Municipalities opened the Convention Center with most of the Mayors and local political figures from all over the state coming to Lancaster to discuss legislation and Pennsylvania trend setters.

That's where we come flying in under the radar. We were lobbying for HB 1660, our Single Payer initiative, and we were well received.

We are NOT business as usual.

And pretty much everything else there--was!!

This Is Me, After Giving A Speech To City Controllers All Over PA--

Pleased That My Points Were Well Taken!


Here Is What I Said:

Hello! My name is Kate Loving Shenk. I've been a nurse working in the trenches of healthcare delivery and now am also a volunteer for Healthcare 4 All PA.

We have a healthcare Single Payer House Bill and Senate Bill--HB 1660 and SB 400 that Philadelphia City Council, West Reading and Parts of Pittsburgh municipalities have voted on and passed.

We hope that Lancaster is next.

As a nurse, I see the people everyday who suffer because of employee based health care delivery. I am fully aware and compassionate about patients not getting coverage for their healthcare needs and lose their homes and often their lives as a result.

But today I am here to tell you how much Single Payer would save Pennsylvania in dollars and cents.

So far, these are the numbers we gathered from 17 counties listed on your sheet.

(Holding up sheet).

And these are the spread sheets where we got our numbers.

(Holding up 17 envelops holding the spread sheets where we worked out the numbers).

The numbers represent cities, municipalities, county governments and school boards, all of which is based on 2008 information. The savings would even be greater in 2009.

The formula is simple: Take the healthcare costs of employees and retirees, and also look at the total payroll. Based on these numbers, we calculate savings.

For example, say the payroll is 10 million dollars, and payout for healthcare is 2 million.

Business employers under our Single Payer plan would pay 10% of payroll to healthcare, so savings per person is $1 million dollars.

What is not included in these numbers are the savings for Workman's Comp, Auto Insurance and administrative costs, all solely based on Health Insurance Costs.

Philadelphia would save $300,000,000 dollars a year alone but without Single Payer will have a $5 billion shortfall over five years.

We are the only industrialized country out of 34 countries without Single Payer Healthcare.

I think PA will be the first to pass Single Payer in the U.S.A.--and as Pennsylvania goes, so goeth the nation.

Then Hope WILL Win.

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    progressivist Jul 29, 2011 @ 11:05 am | delete
    I used to live in Europe, and experienced single-payer health care for myself. Unbelievably short wait times (doctors even made house calls!), free excellent healthcare (a European physician took one look at me and diagnosed a problem I had been to over eighty doctors for in the USA; each doctor wanted to treat symptoms without searching for the underlying problems); and many more benefits, paid for with just about the same taxes that people in the USA pay. Single payer (with European-style backing of medical school financing) is definitely the way to go! I simply cannot understand what the big deal is, because single payer just makes so much logical sense.
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    mukunda22 Jul 31, 2011 @ 9:44 am | delete
    I appreciate this comment and am going to quote it somewhere that I believe will make it stand out!! Thank you!!
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    DaveStone13 Apr 22, 2011 @ 4:57 pm | delete
    At some point, we will either start using our common sense to overthrow the gamers in the system and make healthcare economically available for all or it will take down the economy and the last vestiges of good will with it. Voters need to wake up and elect better politicians.
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    Margo_Arrowsmith Apr 21, 2011 @ 6:26 pm | delete
    What a treasure trove! Blessed again. The irony is that the add above it was about repealing 'Obamacare' arghh. It should only be repealed to get a bill with the public option!
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    pkmcr Feb 4, 2010 @ 1:53 am | delete
    Very informative lens which demonstrates your commitment to the topic
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