Folksinger in Oregon Raising Money and Awareness About Health Care Access and Affordability

What: Concert featuring nationally known singer/songwriter George Mann, raising funds and awareness about health care availability and affordability.   Where: SEIU#503 Ballroom, 6401 SE Foster Street, Portland, OR   When: Friday, April 25, Doors (meet and greet, light refreshments) 6:30pm, concert 7:00pm   George Mann is a former union organizer and activist who lives in NY, singing songs of labor and social activism. General Strike, a local group that sings politically oriented folk songs will open for George Mann. The concert is a benefit for Health Care for All Oregon, a nonprofit organization working to bring universal, publicly funded health care to Oregon, a health care delivery system where everybody is in, and nobody out!    Although the Affordable Care Act has greatly expanded access to care among low income Oregonians, it leaves tens of thousands of people in the state paying high premiums (sometimes higher than before the ACA)...with high deductibles and copays. People are mandated to get insurance, and those not covered by employers or a government plan now have to pay monthly premiums, even they cannot afford to do so.   Health Care for All Oregon believes that a system of publicly funded health care that covers all Oregonians will save everyone money - everyone will have access to preventative care, and care when they get sick (not having to seek it when they already are very sick because they couldn't afford it). Most western democracies enjoy such a single payer type system, and people in those countries pay far less per capita for health care costs then we do in the US.  It makes economic sense, as well as being the right thing to do for Americans.     Tickets can be obtained at the door, and are $10-5 sliding scale, with no body turned away. Pay what you can to support a great cause!