CALL FOR ACTION FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE

[Anne Pritchett]

CALL FOR ACTION FOR SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE

HeartlandHealthcareForAll.com invites you to join a lobbying campaign for SINGLE-PAYER national health insurance. Insurance lobbyists interact continuously with powerful legislators to keep their business interests on the table. So we, citizens, must have an organized campaign to keep our interests on the table, too!

Heartland Healthcare For All will make it easy for you to place calls by sending weekly TALKING POINTS, names of policy-makers and phone numbers.

WE ARE ASKING YOU TO MAKE FROM 1 TO 4 CALLS PER WEEK TO KEY POLICY-MAKERS. Since we’ll provide updated Talking Points, names and phone numbers each week, making all 4 calls should take no more than 12 minutes of your time. If you have time for only 1 or 2 calls, that’s fine—though 3 or 4 would be great!

We want to have some idea of how many calls are generated by this campaign, so please reply to the person who sent you this email to give your total number of calls. And PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL to any friends who might join this campaign—and add their calls to your total.

With hundreds of committed citizens joining together in this campaign, we will make a huge impact on health reform!!

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Recommendation on policy-makers to call Week of June 8:     (all can be accessed by calling the US Capitol toll free 800-828-0498):

1.       Your representative in the US House of Representatives: 800-828-0498 toll free US Capitol switchboard will transfer you to your rep’s office, even if you don’t know his/her name (Direct line numbers are listed below.) (Thank Rep. Cleaver for cosponsoring H.R.676)

2.     Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) 800-828-0498

3.    Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) (member of Senate Finance Committee) 800-828-0498

4.     President Obama’s comment line: 202-456-1111

TALKING POINTS for your calls:

Provide your name, mention, if you are a constituent, and mention if you are a health care provider. HR 676 and Senate Bill 703 are the only health reform proposals that meet all of President Obama’s requirements. SINGLE-PAYER national health insurance will lower costs, assure quality affordable health care for all Americans and allow us to choose our doctors. I support a SINGLE-PAYER plan.

 

LEGISLATORS’ OFFICE PHONE NUMBERS (or you can use the toll free switchboard number listed above)

 

MO     

            Rep. Sam Graves       DC office: 202-225-7041   Local office: 816-792-3976

            Rep. Ike Skelton       DC office: 202-225-2876   Local office: 816-228-4242

            Rep. E. Cleaver          DC office: 202-225-4535   Local office: 816-842-4545

            Sen. Claire McCaskill            DC office: 202-224-6154   Local office: 816-421-1639

            Sen. Kit Bond             DC office: 202-224-5721   Local office: 816-471-7141

 

KS       Rep. Dennis Moore    DC office: 202-225-2865   Local office: 913-383-2013

            Rep. Lynn Jenkins     DC office: 202-225-6601   Local office: 785-2345966

            Sen. Pat Roberts       DC office: 202-224-4774   Local office: 913-451-9343

            Sen. Sam Brownback            DC office: 202-224-6521   Local office: 913-492-6378

 

BACKGROUND INFO:

President Obama says he is committed to enacting comprehensive health reform this year that lowers costs, guarantees choice of doctors, and assures quality affordable health care for all Americans.

Only SINGLE-PAYER national health insurance will accomplish all of President Obama’s requirements. Other proposals in Congress involve private insurance companies and result in bloated administrative cost for hospitals ($120 billion/year would be saved with SINGLE-PAYER) and doctors ($95 billion/year saved). Those savings are over and above  health care dollars the private insurance companies waste in their administration costs, underwriting, sales and marketing, inflated executive compensation and large profits ($130 billion would be saved). Everyone in America could be covered by the savings that would be realized if a SINGLE-PAYER National Health Insurance were enacted and private insurance companies were dealt out.

House Resolution 676, the United States National Health Care Act, would so dramatically lower costs that everyone would be covered and could choose their own doctors. Health care would be publicly funded and largely privately delivered.