Leslea Hodgson

2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference

Healthcare-Now! Agenda: 2018 Single-Payer Strategy Conference Friday, June 22 – Sunday, June 24 Minneapolis, Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown.

Agenda for Friday, June 22

Call to Order and Call to Action for the Conference – Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, President, New York State Nurses Association.
Video: Victory at the AFL-CIO! The Labor Campaign for Single Payer Healthcare.
Why We Fight: Testimony from Patients Fighting Back. Ashlea Bassham, West Virginia teacher; Leslea Hodgson, Land Stewardship Project; Rebecca Wood, Healthcare-NOW Virginia; Christie Offenbacher, social worker and Democratic Socialists of America.
Keynote Speaker: Representative Keith Ellison, lead sponsor of the Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676. Representative Pramila Jayapal, Washington.