Meeting Agenda and previous minutes

Coalition for Democracy Healthcare Work Group

Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 5:30 pm at the First United Methodist Church

From Laura McClure:

Hi everyone! 

Below are:

- The proposed agenda for our meeting on Thursday (February 7 at 5:30 pm at the First United Methodist Church)

- Some initial ideas for the name of our newspaper to spark discussion at the meeting

- Minutes of our last meeting

Hope to see you Thursday! I'll bring the cookies.

Laura

1. PROPOSED AGENDA
for 2/7/2008 Healthcare Work Group meeting

Report on state-wide conference call and state-wide organizing

Review of Sicko/Oprah House party
Schedule other house parties (and give survey to participants)?

Coalition for Democracy
- 501 (c) 4 and donations, Alice Richardson is treasurer
- Annual meeting in April
- quarterly meetings hosted by workgroups
- workgroups: environmental, and voting machine, clean elections, Iran/Iraq, healthcare
- more surveys

Follow up on Gillibrand letter/letter to Arcuri

Next Meeting is Thursday, March 6 at 5:30 p.m.
When is following meeting?

Our own tabloid newspaper/magazine
- Grant
- Article list
- Name of tabloid (please see below for ideas to start us off)
- Volunteer to type recipients by mail (we also need cover note for those getting by mail)
- Response from Quickway; free and paid circulation
- Postal requirements volunteer
- Editor and General Manager
- next meet: advertising, subscribers, distribution

2. NEWSPAPER NAME BRAINSTORM

Please come to the meeting with ideas for a name for our newspaper. To help kick off our discussion, Michael & I came up with the list below, which ranges from serious to slightly wacky. Most of them go better with a tagline, so we've included one.

Health Crisis
of Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

DOC
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Delaware, Otsego & Chenango Counties

What's Up, DOC?
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Delaware, Otsego & Chenango Counties

Heartbeat of Central New York
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Delaware, Otsego & Chenango Counties

Cure
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Cure-All
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Get Well Soon
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

All In
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

SOS
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Life Support
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Upstate Health
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Recovery of Central New York
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Covered
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Central New York Messenger
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Health of Central New York
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Delaware, Otsego & Chenango Counties

Get Well Soon
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

Simple & Free
Solving the Healthcare Crisis in Otsego, Delaware & Chenango Counties

3.  MINUTES OF LAST MEETING

My notes were unusually sketchy last time, so please let me know if you have corrections or additions.

Notes from Healthcare Work Group Meeting
January 17, 2008

Next meetings:
- Thursday February 7 at 5:30 at Methodist Church
- Thursday, March 6 at 5:30 at Methodist Church.

We finalized details of the viewing and discussion of Oprah tape for the following evening (January 18)

Mary will participate for us in a January 23 conference call of single-payer activists around the state.

Laura presented an updated chart comparing the presidential candidates' positions on healthcare.  She has sent it to Walter Vom Saal to post on the CfD website.

Michael outlined the budget for our proposed healthcare reform newspaper. We plan to publish at least two issues in 2008, and print 3000 copies of each. Newspaper will be an 8-12 page tabloid. Ideas for content: 

- Personal stories (eg, Sandy's) about local people's experiences with the healthcare system
- Graphs and other visuals
- Interview with Dr. Chalfin
- Description of candidates' positions on healthcare
- Counties that have adopted resolutions in favor of single payer
- Distribute survey and petition through the newspaper
- Who we are and what we do

Make sure to send newspaper to our elected officials (Arcuri, Gillibrand, Schumer, etc)

Mary will find out about applying for a small grant from the Methodist Church to support the newspaper.

We discussed Rep. Gillibrand's reply to our letters in support of HR 676.  Michael is drafting a response.

(Kathy?) reported on a conversation with Chris Wilcox, Rep. Michael Arcuri's aide, who said that Arcuri was sympathetic to HR 676 and was friends with Kucinich. We need to send a letter to Arcuri.

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