PITTSBURGH -- Joining forces with national single payer (HR 676) legislative leader Congressman John Conyers and statewide single payer (PA-SB 300) champion Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo -- see attached photo -- Healthcare for All Pennsylvania, Progressive Democrats of America (Donna Smith), SPAN Ohio (Mary Nichols Rhodes), New Jersey State Industrial Union Council (Ray Stever), Healthcare for All Colorado (Harvie Branscomb), and DNC delegate Bob Rever successfully pushed a "Guaranteed Healthcare for All" language amendment to the Democratic Party Platform on Saturday in Pittsburgh.

 

Our dynamic campaign to commit the national Democratic Party to a principled position that only the Single Payer Solution (publicly-funded, privately-provided universal heathcare) can provide is a critically important step forward for our citizen movement here in the Commonwealth and across the U.S.  So important, in fact, that Congressman John Conyers declared it a "huge victory" during our later meeting over lunch.  So important, too, that the results are splashed all over the mainstream media, the alternative media, and even today's Oprah Winfrey show (with guest Michael Moore discussing the healthcare issue).