Come and hear about the corporate takeover of a great
American public program
and discuss how we can take it back

“The Truth About Medicare Part D”

IMPACT Open Community Forum
Sunday January 15, 2006
3:00 - 5:00 pm

May Day Books
301 Cedar Avenue, Mpls.
(Lower-level next to Midwest Mountaineering on the
West Bank)

Free forum - donations requested
Refreshments, food provided

The war at home: On December 8, 2003 President Bush
signed the Medicare prescription drug deal into law.
Using a massive campaign of deception, the President
and Congressional leaders have mounted the largest
attack on Medicare in its 40 year history. Under the
guise of providing prescription drug help to Medicare
recipients (seniors and people w/ disabilities, i.e.
our parents and grandparents), their new law
dismantles Medicare and gives billions of taxpayer
dollars to private HMO and pharmaceutical
corporations. Meager and incomprehensible market
coverage for seniors without price limits (effective
January 1, 2006), amounts to handing a blank check to
these oligopolies.

Program:
-Music: Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around- Wayne Bailey
-Background by Joel Albers: History, Economics,
Politics of the Corporate Takeover of Medicare
-The Gray Panthers Position on Medicare Part D
-Q & A, discussion, brainstorming, networking,
organizing and action planning


Sponsored by: IMPACT (Ideas to Mobilize People Against
Corporate Tyranny)
Co-Sponsored by: MN Universal Health Care Action
Network (www.uhcan-mn.org),Twin Cities Gray Panthers,
Schneider Drug, Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom (WILPF). 

Contact: Joel Albers 612-384-0973

IMPACT is a grassroots group dedicated to raising
awareness about the impact of corporations on our
society, promoting sustainable lifestyles and
mobilizing ourselves and our communities to take
cooperative action.  We believe another world is
possible, a world where people are more valued than
profits.


Joel Albers
Minnesota Universal Health Care Action Network
612-384-0973
joel@...
www.uhcan-mn.org
Health Care Economics Researcher, Clinical Pharmacist