MEDICARE'S 51st BIRTHDAY - JULY 2016

Single payer advocates met with Congressman Lacy Clay at his Gravois office in South Saint Louis to celebrate the fifty-first birthday of Medicare. He was presented with a Medicare birthday commemorative coffee mug with a photo of the world's largest Medicare card on one side, created by Pamella Gronemeyer. Congressman Clay was given scores of postcards from constituents urging him to protect and preserve traditional Medicare and to pass Improved Medicare for All into law. A discussion of the issues was followed by birthday cake.

MEDICARE'S 50th BIRTHDAY - JULY 2015

MoSP Celebrates Medicare's 50th Birthday!

Bernie Hayes, Legendary Soul Broadcaster

Spys Band, Your Undercover Blues Band

Tom McDermott, New Orleans jazz pianist

Uvee Hayes, R&B and soul recording artist

Uvee Hayes, MoSP president Mimi Signor, Spys Band Final Bow

April 6 & 7, 2013

Missourians for Single Payer Invites You to the

11th Annual Health Care Weekend Events:

“The Healthcare Movie”, a documentary on health care in Canada and the United States, will be shown free at 7 PM, Saturday April 6 at The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road. Filmmakers Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg will introduce their film and take questions after the showing. Are People More Important Than Profits? Laurie Simons and Terry Sterrenberg, producers of “The Healthcare Movie” will give the Health Care Sunday Address “Are People More Important than Profits?” at 11 AM on Sunday, April 7 at The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road.

Health Care Sunday, April 15, 2012
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“A Psychiatrist Examines American Health Care”
is the theme of the Missourians for Single Payer's tenth annual Health Care Sunday Programs on Sunday, April 15, 2012 at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Road in Ladue.
This year’s program is presented in memory of Gene Schwartz. Gene was one of the original founders and a charter member of Missourians for Single Payer Health Care, cosponsor of Health Care Sunday with The Ethical Society of St. Louis.

Dr. Carol Paris will talk on “Is Speaking Up for Health Care Rights a Crime?”
at the 9:45 a.m. Forum in the Hanke Room. Dr. Paris will explain how speaking up for expanding the right to Medicare for all Americans before a Senate Committee on Health Care led to her arrest and the arrests of other doctors and nurses.

Dr. Carol Paris presents “Private Insurance Induced Stress Disorder”
at the 11 a.m. Platform Address. Dr. Paris will explain the cause and symptoms leading to the diagnosis of PIISD, and its cure. (click here for a flyer)

Carol Paris, MD

Dr. Carol Paris, a Maryland psychiatrist and activist for single payer health care, will give this year’s annual Health Care Sunday Address at the Ethical Society of St. Louis, on April 15 at 11 a.m.

She was one of 13 doctors and health professionals arrested in May of 2009 for speaking up to demand that single payer be included in a Senate hearing on health care reform. Chairman Sen. Max Baucus of Montana allowed only for-profit insurers into the public debate.

Later in 2009 Dr. Paris was asked to represent the so-called ‘’Baucus 13’’ in a press conference that was aired over C-Span on Thanksgiving weekend. Since then she has held many briefings for Congressional staffers and spoken at health care forums nationwide.

The Health Care Sunday is sponsored each year by MoSP and the Ethical Society.

2011 - Ron Hikel, aide to Congressman John Conyers, in charge of promoting HR676.
Friday: Arrive from Canada, Dinner with Julia, Mimi and Roger
Saturday: Strategy Session with MOSP Board of Directors
Saturday Evening: Dinner at Ginger Bistro private dining room with BOD
Sunday: Canadian Nurses Panel on US and Canadian Health Care 9:30 am, Hanke Room, Ethical Society
Sunday: Platform Lecture: Ron Hikel, “Winning Universal Health Care-Strategies for Victory”, Ethical Society of St. Louis, Lunch at Plaza Frontenac.

MOSP Health Care Weekends:

MoSP Celebrates Medicare's 48th Birthday!

Missourians for Single Payer will celebrated the 48th birthday of U.S. Medicare with Congressman Lacy Clay (Dem., District 1) Tuesday, July 30th at the Directors’ Conference Room of the Main Terminal at Lambert Airport.  Congressman Clay is a co-sponsor of HR 676, “Improved Medicare for All.”

2010

David Gill, MD, PNHP member and Emergency Department doctor from rural Illinois, Congressional candidate.
Saturday: Dinner at Mai Lee
Sunday: Platform lecture, “RX for Health Care: Single Payer, Expanded Medicare for All Americans”, Ethical Society of Saint Louis, lunch at Plaza Frontenac

Congressman Eric Massa, New York, single payer advocate, and chair of Conyers’ Universal Health Care Task Force
Saturday: Dinner at Irish Pub at Seven Gables
Sunday: Platform lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis, lunch at Mimi & Roger’s

2008

Donna and Larry Smith, Colorado, from the Michael Moore documentary “SiCKO”
Thursday: KWMU, “St. Louis on the Air”
Friday: dinner at Riddles
Saturday: U City Mayoral Proclamation, street demonstration, “SiCKO” movie night with Q & A
Sunday: Platform lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis              

Fred Rottnek, MD, Missouri, doctor for St. Louis County prisons
Saturday: Ed Finkelstein, publisher Labor Tribune, talk & cocktail party, Danielle Hotel
Sunday: Platform lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis

Jim Hightower, Texas, author, radio journalist, publisher of “Hightower Lowdown”
Saturday: dinner and cocktail party, book signings, Danielle Hotel
Sunday: Platform Lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis

Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Ohio, presidential candidate, recipient of the Gandhi Award and single payer advocate
Thursday: Mimi & Julia with Washington, DC call-in from Congressman Kucinich: KWMU, “St Louis on the Air”,
Friday: Street Theater in the Loop & CWE, “We Won’t Be Fooled Again”
Saturday: Citizen/Congressional Hearings on Health Care, Richmond Heights Mayoral Proclamation
Sunday: Media Conference, Visit with Ethical Society Youth Group, Platform Lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis, lunch at Mai Lee

Claudia Fegan, MD, Illinois, President of Physicians for a National Health Program, wrote the forward to “Universal Healthcare: What the United States Could Learn form the Canadian Experience”
Saturday: Program for Older Women’s League, program at CWE church, Saturday night: Reception, Riddles
Sunday: Platform lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis

Rudy Mueller, MD, New York, author, “As Sick As It Gets” and Linda Peeno, MD, Kentucky, subject of film, “Damaged Care” and who testified before Congress about Insurance Company denials
Friday evening: Cocktail Party at the World Café exclusive for MOSP members
Saturday: Book signings at Barnes & Noble, debate at the urban church of MO PNHP president between Rudy Mueller & Will Ross
Sunday: Platform lecture, Ethical Society of Saint Louis