Did you know it's Cover the Uninsured Week?

I found the following article on the Trenton Times website. Bravo to them for endorsing Single Payer. I'm going to look for specific events related to "Cover the Uninsured Week" and post what I find.

Editorial: Cover the uninsured

Sunday, April 30, 2006
BY EDITORIAL

Tomorrow begins the fourth Cover the Uninsured Week, a nonpartisan, national effort to urge U.S. leaders to make health coverage for Americans their top priority and to facilitate the enrollment of uninsured people who are eligible for subsidized health-care programs. With some 1,000 public events scheduled nationwide, Cover the Uninsured Week will be the largest such campaign in history. Among those who will make the case for national solutions in forums in Washington, D.C., and around the nation will be business leaders who will describe how rising health expenses limit their ability to provide health insurance for their employees and drive up the cost of competing on a global basis. ...

Bravo for the states that are trying. But the problem is a national one and must be solved nationally. Our preference, as we have said many times, is for a single-payer system like Canada's that eliminates the administrative costs that make up such an enormous part of the overall cost of health care. However, any serious attempt by Congress and the White House to cover America's uninsured would be vastly preferable to the indifference they display today.

Read the full article.