Message to Union County Democrats! 
Help raise the visibility of Medicare.  Please post and share. 

https://twitter.com/JamieforOregon/status/1005482335368859648

On July 30, Medicare turns 53.

For over half a century, it has provided healthcare as a right to all Americans over 65 and many disabled Americans. It has saved countless lives and kept millions out of poverty.

Read More About Medicare Here:
https://portside.org/2018-07-30/happy-birthday-medicare

The August 1, 2018 Democratic Party Meeting will be held
at the Democrats Fair Booth beginning at 6:00 PM

It’s FAIR TIME…where American Democracy is on display

“SEE YOU AT THIS YEARS UNION COUNTY FAIR!”

AUGUST 1ST – 4TH in Beautiful La Grande, Oregon

A 3-DAY Event YOU Will Not Want To Miss!

Union County Democrats Fair Booth 2014

This year’s Fair, Greater Than Ever… will offer many exciting events for Families, kids, visitors and Anyone who enjoys getting out, mingling with others, taking in the 4-H and FFA animals or enjoying a little musical concert…And don’t forget…there is some Great Food too!

A GREAT OPPORTUNITY awaits you! Come by, meet and Ask Questions about elected officials and get information about this year’s Candidate’s Running for Office or Pick-up information before YOU VOTE!

AT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BOOTH…

THIS YEAR… is truly an exciting time for ALL WHO UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGES FACING WORKING FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS!

YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE when families and children have been torn apart, farmers are being decimated by Bad Foreign Policy AND politicians ignore YOU except at election time!  This is your chance to learn how to Change Our World by Working Together for the common good of people.

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Around the Winner of
Oregon's CD2 Democratic Primary
to Repeal and Replace
Greg Walden

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Health Care as a Human Right is one of the platform planks of the Union County Democrats and key to the Union County Health Care Resolution signed by 260 persons.

Thanks to the 23 of these supporters that attended the 1-17-18 Union County Board of Commissioners meeting. Eleven (11) supporters shared personal stories about: working only to access health insurance; high monthly cost of personal policies exceeding $1,000 for one person plus additional cost of health care; responsibility of government to provide healthcare as a "public good"; physician and nurse telling how patients post-poned accessing health care because of the cost; tragic physical outcomes for people with no access to health care; financial impacts on young people who have no access to affordable medical care; emergency rooms used for health care by people with no other resources; 60% of US bankruptcy due to cost of health care (and most had insurance) and more. 

Health care resolutions like this have passed in other parts of the state. Union County has been a state public health leader in the past, now is time to step up again and provide leadership in Union County and ask the Oregon legislature to bring a vote about health care to the people in 2020!
Better Care
for More People 
At Less Cost
The Resolution was referred to a Commission work session on February 14, 2018. 

Supporters of Oregon Rural Action's Health Care Resolution filled the La Grande City Hall on January 10, 2018. They presented testimony and more than 260 signatures to Mayor Steve Clements and the City Council asking them to request Oregon Legislature bring universal health care to a vote of the people in 2020. The Council will discuss and vote on this request at their February meeting. Union County Democrats support this effort as stated in this plank of their platform:

• We support Healthcare as a Human Right -- It is a moral outrage for a country as wealthy as ours to leave 60 million people with no reliable access to health care and tens of millions more with inadequate or overly expensive coverage. In addition, despite spending nearly twice as much as other developed nations on health care, our system performs poorly, because the private U.S. insurance bureaucracy soaks up as much as one-third of all the money and pharmaceutical interests overburden America by avoiding price competition. The Affordable Care Act and the proposed American Health Care Act must be replaced with universal, publicly funded Improved Medicare for All HB676.

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Join us January 17, 2018, 9:00 am when petitions will be presented at Union County Board of Commissioners, 1106 K Avenue, La Grande. 

US Representative Greg Walden [R-OR2] bowing in praise to President Trump after the signing of another executive order designed to undermine the stability of the health insurance system for all Americans, October 12, 2017.

CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 2 CANDIDATE EVENTS

"JAMIE MCLEOD-SKINNER4OREGON"
MEET N GREET

October 7th 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Sisters Cafe, 308 S Main St., Pendleton, Oregon 97801

This is not an endorsement of any candidate for office by the Union County Democratic Party. This is a service available to all Democratic candidates.

Dwight Dill, member of ORA Health Care Reform Action Team volunteers at the Fair Booth.