14 January 2017

Missoula’s Save Our Health Care Rally starts at 1300 Sunday

The large rally features a lineup of powerful speakers, plus a special appearance by balladeer and congressional candidate Rob Quist. It starts at 1300 Sunday, 15 January, in the public meeting room of Missoula’s City/County Library.

The rally is one of many save healthcare rallies being held across the nation tomorrow. And the stakes could not be higher. Thanks to Hillary Clinton’s anemic and feckless identity politics campaign, radical, reactionary, Republicans now control Congress and (starting at 1200 EST on 20 January) the Presidency. Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell already are whooping through Congress the bills needed to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with the status quo ante.

Now is the time to stand up and shout — and to shout not just “No,” but “Hell No!, damnit!,” and to shout it so thunderously that the Heavens tremble. Be heard now, or forever suffer the medical blessings of 1917.

Bill Geer is the rally’s organizer. He can be reached at 406-396-0909 or whgeer@bridgemail.com.

Speakers:

• Sarah Howell (Montana Women Vote) — Medicaid Impacts of ACA Repeal
• Kevin Stewart (Western Montana Mental Health Center) — Medicaid Impacts on Mental Health and Addiction
• State Representative Shane Morigeau, HB-95 — Medicaid Impacts on Young Adults and Minorities
• Bill Geer — Medicare Impacts on Retirees
• Mark Anderlik — Missoula AFL-CIO Central Labor Council
• Reverend Amy Carter (University Congregational Church) — Faith Based Concerns on American Healthcare
• Deb Frandsen — Representing Senator Jon Tester (who has some explaining to do on his vote against lowering drug prices)
• Rob Quist (Mission Mountain Wood Band) — A Personal Healthcare Story plus a Special Song