Showing posts with label hr 676. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hr 676. Show all posts

August 25, 2009

SINGLE PAYER IS GAINING STEAM!!

CBS has a report about the exchange between Rep Weiner and Joe Scarborough on MSNBC about single payer health care.

"A Single-Payer Plan Makes So Much Sense Even Joe Scarborough Can't Argue With It"

SWEET. Thank GOD that Single Payer voices are starting to be heard in the mainstream.

Be sure to keep the pressure on by pushing for Single Payer in MoveOn.org's photo petition

Read the full article after the jump.

See the video of the exchange described here below:



Universal Health Care Message to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts



"Trying to get there incrementally is like trying to cross a chasm in two steps."

"This is a time for courage and it's not a moment to take tiny steps."

Hey, MoveOn... Move OVER!

MoveOn.org is hosting a photo petition where they want you to use their materials.

Ever the wimps, and always taking their marching orders from the DNC, their photo petition is in support of the public option.

I say we hijack it, and use their photo petition for SINGLE PAYER.

Here's the photo that I submit:



So here's the plan-- contact all the people on your lists, and ask them to do the same.

MoveOn.org is supposedly keeping the DNC honest. (HAHAHA!) Let's keep MoveOn.org honest.

PS: You can totally use the MoveOn.org sign that they have for you to print out:

August 18, 2009

Citizens lobby for HR 676 in Washington DC



If you watch the mainstream press, you will hear that a single-payer health care plan will not be seriously considered by lawmakers crafting reform of the US health care system. Advocates of HR 676, the single-payer health care plan in the House of Representatives, beg to differ. This video follows their efforts at a rally in Upper Senate Park.

July 21, 2009

July 18th Healthcare Rally in Portland, ME



League of Young Voters, SEIU, UVAW, Maine People's Alliance, and other organizers held a rally and march in Portland Maine on July 18th in support of health care reform.

Hundreds of people from all across the state were in attendance, in what was described by the press as the largest rally yet on the issue of healthcare.