NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY
Thursday, January 15
Call Congress tomorrow to support HR 676 — Single Payer Healthcare
United For Peace and Justice encourages you to join this nationwide Congressional call-in day. This is the second such call-in day, organized by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare-National Single Payer Coalition. The first call-in day on December 22 was a tremendous success, and thousands of calls were made. In fact, by 11:00 AM that morning, Senator Kennedy’s office reported to have already received over 1,000 phone calls in support of HR 676 which calls for more than the Massachusetts-style healthcare reform.
Now is the time to expand this effort. Everyone is being asked to make their calls to the Washington, D.C. offices of the House of Representatives.
HR 676 has been reintroduced in the 111th Congress — there are 86 cosponsors in the House from the 110th Congress who have been sworn into the 111th session. The goal set by the National Single Payer Coalition is to double those sponsors through this massive call-in on Thursday and other efforts.
Here’s how you can be part of this Call-In Day:
If you do not know who your Representative is or how to reach her/him, click on to congress.org — and then enter your zip code on the upper right corner where it says “Find Your Officials”. The Congressional call-in number is 202-224-3121.
When you make the call, be sure to ask if your Representative is already a sponsor of HR 676. If they are, thank them and urge them to do all they can to help it pass.
If your Representative is not yet a sponsor, urge them to become one now. See below for Talking Points to help you make the case. They can also attend a briefing on HR 676 that will be held on Wednesday, January 28 from 3-5 PM in the halls of Congress.
If you can make one more call, please call one or both of your Senators to support companion legislation to HR 676 in the Senate.
UFPJ participation in actions like this is crucial to our building our “Beyond War, A New Economy is Possible: Yes We Can Campaign”, linking the ending of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to changing our government’s focus from warfare and militarism to healthcare and other social programs and community needs. Check the UFPJ website for more information on this campaign.
Finally, we hope you will take a moment to make a financial contribution to UFPJ. Your donations make it possible for us to keep doing this important work — we hope we can count on you!
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Talking Points
1) Former Sen. Tom Daschle, President-Elect Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, called for “a government-run insurance program modeled after Medicare” in testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as part of the solution to our healthcare crisis. His plan also includes health insurance corporations. We already have a public-private system which doesn’t work.
2) In August of 2005, the National Coalition on Health Care found in a fiscal analysis of health care reform that “the single-payer model would reduce costs by over $1.1 trillion over the next decade while providing comprehensive benefits to all Americans.” Single-payer is the only reform proposal that can claim cost savings and comprehensive health care for all.
3) I understand that only HR 676 would implement a sustainable, fair, and cost-efficient solution to the healthcare crisis. Reject for-profit health corporation-friendly bills, which put private profits over public health and will not and cannot solve our healthcare crisis.
4) Some argue that HR 676 is “not politically feasible,” but that’s a facile truism, not an acceptable position. We elect our Congress to serve the public interest, and the public overwhelmingly supports a national health plan.
5) HR 676 would help control costs by emphasizing prevention and universal access to basic care instead of reliance on emergency room care–the most costly and least efficient method of healthcare delivery. We can’t afford not to adopt HR 676.
6) HR 676 would improve healthcare outcomes and eliminate racial, geographic, and other disparities, which currently plague our nation.
7) All the other advanced democracies adopted national healthcare, none have seriously considered eliminating these systems, and all enjoy better health care results than we do, including: longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality rates, fewer work-days lost to illness, and many other measures of health and wellness.
It’s time to stop funding the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and start making sure the health care needs of our families are met!
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National Call in Day for Single Payer Health Insurance
NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY
Thursday, January 15
Call Congress tomorrow to support HR 676 — Single Payer Healthcare
United For Peace and Justice encourages you to join this nationwide Congressional call-in day. This is the second such call-in day, organized by the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare-National Single Payer Coalition. The first call-in day on December 22 was a tremendous success, and thousands of calls were made. In fact, by 11:00 AM that morning, Senator Kennedy’s office reported to have already received over 1,000 phone calls in support of HR 676 which calls for more than the Massachusetts-style healthcare reform.
Now is the time to expand this effort. Everyone is being asked to make their calls to the Washington, D.C. offices of the House of Representatives.
HR 676 has been reintroduced in the 111th Congress — there are 86 cosponsors in the House from the 110th Congress who have been sworn into the 111th session. The goal set by the National Single Payer Coalition is to double those sponsors through this massive call-in on Thursday and other efforts.
Here’s how you can be part of this Call-In Day:
If you do not know who your Representative is or how to reach her/him, click on to congress.org — and then enter your zip code on the upper right corner where it says “Find Your Officials”. The Congressional call-in number is 202-224-3121.
When you make the call, be sure to ask if your Representative is already a sponsor of HR 676. If they are, thank them and urge them to do all they can to help it pass.
If your Representative is not yet a sponsor, urge them to become one now. See below for Talking Points to help you make the case. They can also attend a briefing on HR 676 that will be held on Wednesday, January 28 from 3-5 PM in the halls of Congress.
If you can make one more call, please call one or both of your Senators to support companion legislation to HR 676 in the Senate.
UFPJ participation in actions like this is crucial to our building our “Beyond War, A New Economy is Possible: Yes We Can Campaign”, linking the ending of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars to changing our government’s focus from warfare and militarism to healthcare and other social programs and community needs. Check the UFPJ website for more information on this campaign.
Finally, we hope you will take a moment to make a financial contribution to UFPJ. Your donations make it possible for us to keep doing this important work — we hope we can count on you!
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Talking Points
1) Former Sen. Tom Daschle, President-Elect Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, called for “a government-run insurance program modeled after Medicare” in testimony before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as part of the solution to our healthcare crisis. His plan also includes health insurance corporations. We already have a public-private system which doesn’t work.
2) In August of 2005, the National Coalition on Health Care found in a fiscal analysis of health care reform that “the single-payer model would reduce costs by over $1.1 trillion over the next decade while providing comprehensive benefits to all Americans.” Single-payer is the only reform proposal that can claim cost savings and comprehensive health care for all.
3) I understand that only HR 676 would implement a sustainable, fair, and cost-efficient solution to the healthcare crisis. Reject for-profit health corporation-friendly bills, which put private profits over public health and will not and cannot solve our healthcare crisis.
4) Some argue that HR 676 is “not politically feasible,” but that’s a facile truism, not an acceptable position. We elect our Congress to serve the public interest, and the public overwhelmingly supports a national health plan.
5) HR 676 would help control costs by emphasizing prevention and universal access to basic care instead of reliance on emergency room care–the most costly and least efficient method of healthcare delivery. We can’t afford not to adopt HR 676.
6) HR 676 would improve healthcare outcomes and eliminate racial, geographic, and other disparities, which currently plague our nation.
7) All the other advanced democracies adopted national healthcare, none have seriously considered eliminating these systems, and all enjoy better health care results than we do, including: longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality rates, fewer work-days lost to illness, and many other measures of health and wellness.
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Help us continue to do this critical work: Make a donation to UFPJ today.
UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545
PO Box 607; Times Square Station; New York, NY 10108
To subscribe, visit www.unitedforpeace.org/email
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