Now is the time to redouble our efforts. Michael
Moore and his truly revolutionary film have opened up the debate
made possible by the magic of the big screen told through a magic
guru truth-teller and the true stories of the people.
The rest of the media has shut out the truth about the current
corrupt system and the option of a single payer healthcare guarantee
for the last four years
paying no attention to our growing success in building this movement. No matter
how hard we have tried, the media have continued to pronounce that single payer
was not on the table, that Congress would never give up their relationship
to Big Pharma and Big Insurance in order to provide everybody with guaranteed
quality healthcare, that the insurance companies and their cronies would never
allow their profits to give sway to healthcare as a human right. The media
has promoted every possible business coalition, hybrid plan and compromise
that might allow the insurance companies to continue to control the healthcare
system. They have made it clear that the news they report is really owned by
the business interests – the news does not have to be true. It just has
to serve business.
Mostly they have just ignored the single payer guaranteed healthcare movement.
But not any more!
“SiCKO” has turned the tide. If you have not taken a group of people
to see it and started organizing a response in your city, please do it now. Don’t
delay another day. You will be saddened, encouraged and energized.
Now is the time for you to do the most important job that ONLY YOU can do.
You must get your Congress Members signed on as endorsers of H.R. 676. A bill
must be introduced in the Senate. We must reach out for Republicans and Independents,
Blue Dogs and Dem Dogs, conservatives and liberals, incorrigibles and incurable
lackeys for the medicine for profit system. The list of the 75 courageous endorsing
Members can be found at the link below along with a link to your Member of
Congress. You know what to do.
Now is the time to create a new Healthcare-NOW coalition in
your community to share this work. It is time to talk with
your mayor and get him/her to endorse
and to work for H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act.
Mayors are in trouble. Their healthcare systems are crumbling and their unfunded
legacy costs for healthcare and pensions for their workers are growing out
of sight. The only way they can solve these problems is with a national single
payer healthcare system. Hold a truth hearing to educate and organize to
win this. Check our website for
organizing ideas. 
Healthcare-NOW has opened up a small legislative/education
office in Washington, D.C. Our new office can help get appointments
for you with Members of Congress,
finding out their positions on healthcare and plans for hearings, researching
the amounts of money and the sources of funding being received by our members
of Congress from the health industrial complex so you can use those facts
in your campaigning. We will also help you with resources and
information as you
organize meetings in your Congressional District. Send a request for help
to [email protected] There will be special call-in days
and the Bankruptcy
Hearings being organized by Rep. John Conyers that started on July 17th.
Would you like to do Bird-dog training? We will be doing this training in
several regions of the country. This is training for tracking (bird-dogging)
the presidential
and congressional candidates and helping them to see that guaranteed national
healthcare without the insurance industry is what the people really want.
They need to see our massive and determined movement of dedicated voters
so they
can be clear about our plans for healing healthcare in this country. If you
are interested in organizing bird-dog training in your area, please be in
touch with our office. Click
here to contact Ms. Clement and Healthcare-NOW.
Write your Member of Congress. Ask him/her to become a co-sponsor
of H.R. 676:
Congressional
Co-Sponsors
How
to Write to Them
You are terrific. We love you. Keep on!
Marilyn
Clement is the National Coordinator of Healthcare-NOW. Click
here to contact Ms. Clement and Healthcare-NOW.
Click
here to read any of the articles in this special BC series on Single-Payer Healthcare. |
