Health Care Council Celebrates 20 Years!

Founded in 1986, the Council has worked to foster access to improved health care for all Orange County residents for two decades.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR!

You are invited to the Health Care Council’s Annual Meeting

Thursday, June 8, 2006
Noon to 1:30 p.m.

Rancho Santiago Community College Center Board Room
2323 North Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Fred Richmond, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer of the
Coalition of Orange County Community Clinics

will speak on:

The Role of the Community Clinics
in the Health Care Safety Net

At the conclusion of the meeting there will be a brief business meeting of the membership.

Seating is limited!
RSVP today to (714) 558-0940
Lunch will be provided

EDITORIAL

The good news is that more and more Americans, as many as 80% in some polls, are becoming increasingly aware that the health care system is broken and that only a major national reform will fix it.  More and more doctors are joining Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) and advocating for a better, fairer health care system for their patients.  Increasingly, people are becoming angry with politicians who carry the water for the insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers and other corporate entities who profit from this dysfunctional system. 

Many people are aghast at the rising costs of health care, much of it due to administrative waste and unconscionable profits of the “market place” profiteers whose lobbyists infest the halls of Congress.  This health care system hurts not only the millions of working poor who lack health insurance, but many middle-class families who are paying for health insurance but are dismayed to find that their coverage is inadequate when illness strikes.

We look forward to the gathering of the “critical mass” of Americans who will shout “No more!” 

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