Letter to the editor, City Paper, April 29, 2009 We appreciate your video on the HCAN Bridge to Health Care event [The Clog, “Health Care for America NOW! protests at the Ben Franklin Bridge,” Daniel Schwartz, April 14, 2009]. But your report gives a misleading account of the current debate over health care. Continue reading
Checking out at Weaver’s Way a few minutes ago, I was shocked and saddened to see a notice saying that Laurence Sigmond had died earlier this week. I had just seen a few days ago on Facebook that he had been in the hospital but was home convalescing. Continue reading
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Published in the Chestnut Hill Local, April 2, 2009 Commentary: We need a strong bridge to adequate health care by Marc Stier The Pennsylvania and New Jersey chapters of Health Care For America Now, a nationwide organization advocating for President Obama’s health care reform program, are holding a march for quality affordable health care at the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on Saturday, April 4 at 1 p.m. There will be rallies at Franklin Square in Philadelphia and near the north walkway of the bridge in Camden. And then the Pennsylvania and New Jersey contingents will march across the bridge and meet in the middle. Why have we chosen to do this event at the Benjamin Franklin Bridge? Because the path Americans take from hard work to quality affordable health care has become a tightrope over a chasm. Continue reading