Call until 8 pm EST: Speaker Pelosi: SF (415 ) 556.4862 • Rep Miller: Concord (925) 602.1880 • Rep Waxman: LA (323) 651.1040

[Joanne O'Neill]

Remember California is 3 hours behind us on the East coast. SO GET ON THOSE PHONES AND MAKE THESE CALLS !!! ;-)

Joanne

 

Message from Pennsylvania Coordinator :

What Speaker Pelosi is doing is a complete outrage.  Not only is she autocratically stripping member-voted amendments (e.g., Kucinich's bi-partisan, single-payer enabling language) and reneging on her promise to provide an up-or-down vote on the only proven method to provide comprehensive, quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans (Weiner Amendment/HR 676) but she is also unilaterally inserting a regressive "healthcare cooperative" provision out of the SENATE (ala Sen Kent Conrad) into the HOUSE bill.  

The Democratic bosses' war on progressive members and ideas -- matched only by their appeasement of conservative Blue Dogs, and Republicans who won't vote for the bill in any case -- must not stand, cannot stand, and will not stand.  We haven't educated, organized, and mobilized so long and so hard to cave in to more money-driven 'politics as usual.'  

Lost in the whole process of this drip-by-drip dilution of meaningful healthcare reform is the fact that there wouldn't even be a bill of any kind if not for the democratically-, morally-, and economically-inspired single payer movement.  On the one hand we're being leveraged by the bosses as the "threat" to be feared by the medical-industrial special interests and, on the other hand, we're being thrown under the corporate-fueled, corporate-steered, and corporate-enabling Democratic Party "bus."

Fight back.  Now!

You can call these California offices until 8 pm EST. 

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi: DC (202) 225.4965 - SF, CA (415) 556.4862 
• Representative George Miller: DC (202) 225.2095 - Concord, CA (925) 602.1880 
• Representative Henry Waxman: DC (202) 225.3976 - LA, CA (323) 651.1040

I thank you, and your children, grandchildren, neighbors and friends will thank you.

Remember, publicly-funded, privately-provided Single Payer healthcare is a centrist solution, a uniquely American solution.  On to victory for PA HB 1660/SB 400, and HR 676/S.703.

Yours in solidarity,

Chuck Pennacchio

www.healthcare4allpa.org

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These are desperate times.  The message is simple:

"Save the Kucinich ammendment and hold the Weiner vote on 676"

People in Pelosi, Miller, and Waxman offices need to hear that message thousands of times today, over the weekend, and Monday...after that the bill should be in it's 72 hour review period.

So, please make the calls whether or not you have already done so

Here they are again:

•Speaker Nancy Pelosi: DC (202) 225.4965 - SF (415) 556.4862
• Representative George Miller: DC (202) 225.2095 - Concord (925) 602.1880
• Representative Henry Waxman: DC (202) 225.3976 - LA (323) 651.1040

If you would like more personal knowledge about why this is important, here's a link to Donna Smith's excellent explanation. 

Donna Smith on Michael Moore's website:

        http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/single-payer-state-option-threatened-house


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Dear Joanne ONeill,   Now that we know what the House version of the "public option" looks like (see the compressed version here), now that we know it is basically an insurance company bailout, now that we know that it is the product of intransigient "blue dogs" who refused to support any real reform, now that we know that it has no hope of making health care a right of Americans -- now that we have had our faces slapped and our eyes opened, what do we do?  The easy answer is :persevere.  The less answer is: get arrested.  But the quandary is still presented: do we accept the 'public option' as a fait accompli and hope for better next time, or do we tell liberal Democrats to dump health reform into the trash can where it belongs and start over.  Russell Mokhiber argues forcefully for the latter.  After all, blue dog Democrats have successfully destroyed any hope of health care as a right by focusing Congress on the wrong question: money.  The real question is not 'how do we pay for health insurance for all' but should be 'how do we get health care for all.' So I need your feedback.  Do we tell Democrats to oppose the health reform bills in the House and Senate, and either do nothing or start over, or do we say "OK, what you have stinks, but it's better than nothing." Take the Poll today. Let Nancy Pelosi and your own Congressperson know what you think of this lying, backpedalling and shameful behavior. Send this fax today. Add your own comments if you wish. Let's call Pelosi out on her lie! Demand Nancy Pelosi Keep Kucinich Amendment Allowing States to Enact Single-Payer Call Speaker Pelosi: (202) 225-4965 Call Bill Floor Manager Rep. George Miller: (202) 225-2095 Call Bill Floor Manager Rep. Henry Waxman: (202) 225-3976

URGENT PHONE CALLS THIS WEEK Let's make sure Speaker Nancy Pelosi hears our pleas for the Kucinich/Weiner Amendments. She has lied to us. Then call your represenative, and make sure he/she knows you support Single-Payer, Medicare-For-All.    All Congressional office numbers are here. Fax System Still Works.  Fax Now and Fax Often! And Fax Pelosi! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can still use our unique and free fax system to fax your federal legislators and various news media with your views.  Remember, one of the faxes is for you to tell your own story.  Use it now. Tell your story to Congress.  Here is the link.  It's quick, easy and free. There are plenty of faxes to choose from.  Now is no time to shut up and get run over.  At least we can make a ruckus. Lets flood Capitol Hill with faxes this week! For instance, as the Weiner amendment to HR 3200 and the Kucinich amendment come for a vote on the House floor, use this fax to urge a vote for Medicare For All.