Families USA, a national nonprofit, non-partisan organization who since 1982 has been working at the national, state, and community levels to promote high-quality and affordable health care for all Americans, is bringing its “National Health Care Reform: What’s In It For Me?” Road Show to Knoxville and Cookeville on February 20 as part of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign’s Regional Conferences.
The road show presentation is a grassroots effort geared towards explaining what the health care bill in Congress and health care reform will really do for people in Tennessee and across the nation while exposing and debunking the scare tactics and myths being used to derail reform. It’s a message delivery system for the truth. (Not quite as effective as having conservative mouth pieces on the radio and TV at your disposal 24/7 but still…)
Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA will be the keynote speaker at two of the regional conferences – Cherokee Health Systems in Knoxville and the Cookeville Regional Medical Center in Cookeville.
Registration for the event is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Scholarships available. Lunch included.
To register for Knoxville, contact Beth Uselton, 865-357-3151
To register for Cookeville, contact Christina Kretchik, 615-227-7500
There are 8 total THCC Regional Training Conferences. Deputy Director Kathleen Stoll of Families USA will be at the Memphis conference on Saturday, March 6.
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In other HC news, the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to require the state attorney general to mount a legal challenge to any federal law to require participation in a health care system.
The “Tennessee Health Freedom Act” sponsored by Republican Sen. Mae Beavers of Mt. Juliet passed without debate on a 26-1 vote, with five abstentions.
Beavers, showing her ignorance, said her proposal seeks to check congressional power. Otherwise the federal government “could mandate that each of us buy a Chevrolet every year so we could help pay of the loans that were made to the industry,” she foolishly said.
Only Democratic Sen. Andy Berke of Chattanooga had a clue. He said the bill “doesn’t do anything to help the citizens of Tennessee who either need insurance or need a break in what they’re paying for health care.”
Berke also questioned the constitutionality of the bill.
“This is telling the federal government that we’re not going to obey the laws that you pass,” Berke said. “My education tells me there is the supremacy clause in the Constitution which says that we can’t do that.”
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