'Sicko' are lack of health care & the war

The Campaign for Healthcare, Not Warfare, a project of the Troops Out Now Coalition, launched an effort inspired in part by the recent movie “Sicko” to demand the war be shut down and health care be made free for everyone.

In literature, meetings and emails, the group has pointed out that “one-fourth of the Iraq war budget alone could fund health care for the close to 47 million uninsured people.”

They have also pointed out that “the trillions spent on occupation and destruction could provide free medicine for all of our seniors and chronically ill or change the statistics of infant mortality in major cities like Detroit, Baltimore and Washington D.C. or provide health care for low wage workers and immigrant families.”

Health care workers, nurses, doctors, home health aides, patients and patient advocates will be joining with anti-war, community, immigrant rights, student and union activists and converging in Washington D.C. on September 29th to demand an immediate end to war and occupation. The campaign will set up a special “Health care, not warfare” tent at an encampment that will precede the September 29th march.

Volunteers are urging activists and those who agree to download flyers from their web page at www.troopsoutnow.org/HWN.pdf and distribute flyers to friends, co-workers and to attend “Sicko” film showings armed with flyers to urge attendees not just to watch but to act.

—Sharon Black