Details Written by The Skanner News Published: 04 April 2014

Healing the Health Care Blues

A festival to support Healthcare for All Oregon, the coalition sponsoring legislation for single-payer health care, brings together the hottest and most-loved blues artists in the area Saturday, April 5 at the Melody Ballroom.

Featuring Norman Sylvester and a host of all-star Northwest musicians, (pictured) the Third Annual Healing the Healthcare Blues festival returning for a night of music that will benefit Health Care for All-Oregon, to get simple, fair, affordable, high quality health care for all Oregonians.

Celebrity Masters of Ceremonies for the evening are Paul Knauls, a NE Portland businessman and former owner of legendary blues/jazz clubs Genevas and the Cotton Club, and Renee Mitchell, former columnist for The Oregonian and renowned poet and author.

Joanne Cvar of HCAO says making real, affordable healthcare for all is the point.

Right now we have multi-tiered insurance, so some people have insurance, and they have the opportunity pay a premium every month, but they don't have the money to pay the deductible the deductible is so high that they don't have access to healthcare.

So the premium that might only be $100 some people have premiums as high as $500

depending on their age, but I still don't have access to healthcare, they just have access

to the opportunity to pay for insurance they can't use, she says.

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Healing the Health Care Blues