Nurse & RAD Health Care Organizer to Accompany Sanders on Canadian Fact-Finding Trip
posted by RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY | 44sc
October 27, 2017
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An RN and lead organizer from Rights & Democracy will be traveling to Canada with US Bernie Sanders to learn how our neighbors to the north provide quality, universal health care while spending about half as much per capita as we do in the US.
Rights & Democracy’s Jessica Early, RN, who heads up RAD’s health care justice organizing, will accompany Sanders and others as observers on the trip. She leaves Friday for the weekend trip (see itinerary below).
On Sunday, Sanders will deliver a speech and discuss health care with Dr. Danielle Martin on what the US can learn from Canada’s health care system. That speech and discussion will be livestreamed on Sanders' Facebook page from 11-noon ET.
“As a nurse practitioner and as Rights & Democracy's Health Care Justice Organizer working to win meaningful health care reform that guarantees access to high-quality health care as a human right, I am so excited to be joining Senator Sanders on this trip to Toronto, Canada to learn about the Canadian health care system first-hand,” said Early.
Toronto Trip Details
Saturday: Sanders will tour Women's College Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and Toronto General Hospital. He will also hold a roundtable conversation with participants including a Canadian doctor, patient, policy maker, hospital administrator and pharmacist.
Sunday: Sanders speech and discussion with Dr. Danielle Martin on what the United States can learn from Canada's health care system.
Where: University of Toronto, Convocation Hall and the speech and discussion will be livestreamed on Sanders' Facebook page.
When: 11 AM – Noon ET
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