Healthcare-NOW! just sent me this email:
Chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, George Miller (CA), has agreed to hold a hearing on single-payer!
Call your representative and ask him/her to attend. If you know your representative, call 866-338-1015 for the Capital Switchboard. If not, visit votesmart.org to find out. Either way, you can easily email them here.
Here's the information:
Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option
Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Hearing
10:30 AM, June 10, 2009
2175 Rayburn H.O.B
Washington, DC
SECOND - Ask Two Chairmen to Hold Single-Payer Hearings
Please call the chairmen of these committees and tell them that:
"Because the majority of Americans, doctors, and nurses support a single-payer healthcare system, I hope to see a robust debate on single-payer healthcare--with single-payer advocates as witnesses. Please follow Rep. George Miller's lead and hold hearings on single-payer healthcare in your committee."
Call or fax the Committee Chairmen here:
Energy and Commerce Chairman Rep. Henry Waxman
Phone: 202-225-3976 - Fax: 202-225-4099 - Email: here
Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Charles Rangel
Phone: 202-225-4365 - Fax: 202-225-0816 - Email: here
THIRD - Contact Sen. Kennedy
Sen. Ted Kennedy (MA) is holding a hearing on healthcare reform this Thursday, June 11th, at 3pm in Senate HELP Committee. Please call or fax him asking him to include single-payer advocates in this important hearing.
Sen. Ted Kennedy
Phone: 202-224-4543 - Fax: 202-224-2417 - Email: here
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If you are Waxman's or Rangel's constituent
it's especially important to call. These are the committees that are needed to move the bill forward. The Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee (which is holding Wednesday's hearing) appears to be a subcommittee of Education and Labor, which doesn't have responsibility for HR676.
Thanks DCblogger!
Policy not party!
a kick for a good cause
I have not given up on single payer.
We have to fight.
Thanks for the post
Here's a link
to the subcommittee's web site on the hearing. They don't list the witnesses yet, but the grapevine says PNHP's Walter Tsou has been invited to testify.
Policy not party!