Hi all...today at 5pm, not next Friday, is the next Single Payer Happy Hour event at Warner Center Park in Woodland Hills, CA, in the Greater Los Angeles area. Next Friday is Buy Nothing Day and the recovery day after the big Tryptophan binge.
We will be gathering at the corner of Topanga Canyon Blvd. and Califa St. in the Warner Center neighborhood of Woodland Hills, CA. You really can see the Insurance Industry Dark Satanic Mills from where we stand. Here's an easy to remember link to a Google Map of the area: http://www.tinyurl.com/... . We will be going back to Last Friday of the Month in January. Please remember that the December SPHH will be on December 18th, the third Friday of the month.
Oh yeah, my Hollywood-influenced thoughts on the House and Senate HCR bills: Just pass it. We'll fix it in Post. The Medicare Act and the Social Security Act were not dead solid perfect when they were first passed. There were really crummy compromises that needed to be arrived at to move the bill further. But they were fixed, and they continue to be tinkered with even now. Single Payer is still best. We might have to go to the courts to allow the states to innovate. But any forward motion is welcome, because the status quo is unacceptable.