URGENT! Healthcare Updates
Joanne O'Neill
Just a few days after 20 demonstrations at Senators' offices across the country in support of Medicare for All, we learned that Senator Sanders' Single-Payer Amendment No. 2837 will be debated and voted as soon as today!
Amendment No. 2837 would extend healthcare as a basic human right to all. Sens. Brown, Burris, and Sanders, the three original sponsors of the amendment, understand that the American people need access to care that is not dependent on wealth or level of private insurance coverage.
Make sure your Senators hear from you in support of this important vote. It sets historic precedence for the future of the movement for improved Medicare for All.
Call your Senators. Tell them you want them to vote for Senators Sanders, Burris and Brown's amendment number 2837. Call today. Call now. Insist on a vote for moral and fiscal sanity.
To call and find a script, go here. It's easy and toll free! Or, if you know your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 866-338-1015. To email your Senators, go here (sorry, if you signed this before, you can't sign it again).
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This is it, Medicare for All,
single-payer advocates. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced last
night that today the Senate will hear several
more amendments to the health reform bill - and one of those amendments is Sen.
Bernie Sanders' single-payer amendment No. 2837. The amendment also
has two other original co-sponsors, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Sen. Roland
Burris of Illinois.
We need you to fax or call the phone numbers below
now. Click here to fax for
free.
We never knew if we'd get to this point. And it is your work and your passion that got the
single-payer effort this far. Let's send this message as loudly and clearly as we can.
So, in a historic turn of events, single-payer healthcare will finally be heard by this Congress. Single-payer is a wonderful idea from the left - public financing - combined with a terrific idea from the right - private delivery, and put together in one common sense plan for all. One single standard of high quality healthcare - everybody in, nobody out.
Our
effort is needed one more time - we need to let Senator Reid know we are pleased
the Senate will hear the amendment, but we must also ask our Senators to vote in
favor of it. The numbers for phoning are:
Make the calls to
Sen. Harry Reid and your U.S. Senators :
Washington, D.C., office: (202)
224-3542
Las Vegas, NV, office: (702)
388-5020
U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202)
224-3121
We need a massive outpouring
of faxes and phone calls to the office of Harry Reid, who is the key to getting
a vote on Sen. Sanders' amendment. Click here to send your
fax now to your Senators and to Sen. Reid urging a vote on SA 2837, the
Sanders single payer amendment.
8:50 p.m. ET, 7:50 p.m. CT, 6:50 p.m. MT, 5:50 p.m. PT
Phone Number: (231) 644-8000, Access Code: 968483#
Please RSVP here. https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/personalopt1.asp?formid=meet&c=1546374
Chat Room: We are expecting a very large call. Please go to the PDA chat room a few minutes before you dial in. In the top right hand corner you can see a gear wheel (see picture below). Please left click on it, delete the nickname provided, and enter your full name. You need to change the nickname to ask questions! You can submit questions to any of our guests in the chat room, and we will pass them along to the call. We will try to cover as many as possible.
Chuck Pennacchio from Healthcare4AllPA will talk about the upcoming single payer hearings on SB400 before the Banking and Insurance Committee. http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/index.htm Hearing is set for tomorrow, read all the details here: http://www.healthcare4allpa.org/index.htm#rss_2009_december_02_01
Banking and Insurance Committee to Hold SB400 HearingWhat: SB400 hearing before Banking and Insurance CommitteeWhen: Wednesday, December 16, 9:00 - 10:30 AMWhere: Room 8E-A East Wing, Capitol Building
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