Details Written by The Skanner News Published: 04 April 2014 <\/p>\n
Healing the Health Care Blues <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
Joanne Cvar of HCAO says making real, affordable healthcare for all is the point. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
So the premium that might only be $100 some people have premiums as high as $500 <\/p>\n
depending on their age, but I still don't have access to healthcare, they just have access <\/p>\n
to the opportunity to pay for insurance they can't use, she says. <\/p>\n
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