We will bring the cake !
IMACK activists will gather in Lexington's Phoenix Park Friday (7/30) to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the founding of Medicare. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., they will share a birthday cake (while it lasts) with pedestrians who pass the park (at the corner of Limestone and Main Street). The goal of the event is to celebrate Medicare's success and to remind our political leaders of the public's strong support for Medicare. It's a program that needs to be protected and expanded.
IMACK spokesperson Richard Mitchell summarized the activists' views: "Medicare is the outstanding example of a publicly funded, privately run healthcare system. It is in many-ways a single-payer system. If made a truly single-payer system it could be even more efficient. Single-payer systems make sense but are hard to enact because they are opposed by the private health insurance and pharmaceutical industries. Using big money and the rhetoric of fear, they have bought politicians and confused the public. Healthcare reform does not have to be complicated. All that is needed is to expand Medicare so that it is available to all Americans."
This campus is directly north of Commonwealth Stadium. Bus routes #3, 33, 34, and 35 come by the campus or close to it. Parking enforcement at BCTC will be suspended before, after, and during this presentation.
Click here to view & print the speakers series poster. Post it.
Bill Mahan is an expert on health care reform, advocate for single payer health care reform, and talented country & western singer (who sings popular country songs with lyrics that educate about health care reform). He is spokesperson for the Central KY Chapter of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care.
Click here to see a music video of Bill singing "Health Care Should Be A Right."