Nation-Wide Local Protests For A People's Bailout & Financial Restructuring On April 11

A new group named "A New Way Forward" is organizing nationwide local protests for a people's bailout next Saturday, April 11, at 2 PM EDT.

Gorbachev took power in 1985, but the fall of communism did not happen until August of 1991. What Obama's election did was shift the national debate. With the deteriorating economic situation the national conversation will continue to radicalize.

National Nurses Movement posting at MyDD

With the final White House Forum on healthcare scheduled Monday, April 6 in downtown Los Angeles, advocates of single payer/guaranteed healthcare have one more opportunity to shake up what has become a dreary conventional wisdom about the presumed acceptable parameters of the debate.

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Regional Healthcare Meeting--Greensboro, North Carolina

The fourth of five regional meetings on healthcare reform following the White House Healthcare Summit.

This town hall forum will discuss bringing down health care costs and expanding coverage. This discussion is especially critical for working families and businesses that need lower health care costs to create and maintain jobs during these tough economic times.

Seating is limited. Click here to request tickets to the event by March 23.

If you would like to share your first-hand stories about health care access and delivery challenges or would like to ask a question for the forum, click here.

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March 26, 2009, Levittown, PA

We Won’t Get the Health Care Reform We Need Unless We Fight For It.

When: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 7:00pm
Where: United Christian Church, 8525 New Falls Rd., Levittown, PA 19067
Contact: Robin Stelly at 267.240.9819

Please bring a non-perishable food item to help the Emergency Relief Association Food Pantry, which assists families who are struggling during this difficult time.

Protesters Rally Outside Health Forum

Supporters of a single-payer system of health care used a special White House forum to send a message to the man in the Oval Office.

"Barack Obama said it at an AFL-CIO meeting in 2003 that he was an advocate of the single-payer health care system," said Dr. Deb Richter, who helped organize the protest. "He said we had to take back the White House and take back the Senate and take back the House, which they've done. Now it's time to get the single-payer bill he promised."

Action Alert: “Sick Around America”

We urge you to reach out to your community and host Sick Around America watching parties on and after March 31st.

Sick Around America, a compelling and timely documentary exposing the serious consequences of getting sick in the United States, will premiere on PBS on March 31st. It is the sequel to the highly acclaimed Frontline documentary, Sick Around the World.

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Who would hold a health care summit and exclude doctors?
Letter from Health Care Now:

White Coats To Crowd the White House Gate Thursday
Doctors criticize exclusion of single-payer advocates from summit

President Obama is holding a Healthcare Summit on Thursday, March 5th. Over 120 are expected to be in attendance, including representatives from Americas Health Insurance Plans, the largest group of private health insurance lobbyists.

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The third Call-In Day on February 12th will target Representatives and the White House.

This Call-In Day has four objectives:
1. If your Rep. hasn’t already, tell them to co-sponsor HR 676.
2. If your Rep. is a past co-sponsor, thank them and urge them to co-sponsor again.
3. Urge your Rep. to attend the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care’s Congressional forum on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm, 2226 Rayburn House Office Building, to explore the serious flaws in the Massachusetts health plan and why it cannot serve as a national model for providing universal and comprehensive care.
4. Tell President Obama that you support national, single-payer healthcare.

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Plan Congressional Visits During Presidents’ Day Recess

Congressman John Conyers re-introduced HR 676 into the 111th Congress on January 26th. The bill keeps the same number, HR 676, as it has since it was first introduced in 2003.

Because this is a new Congress, representatives who co-sponsored HR 676 in the 110th Congress need to sign on again. Plus we need to get many more.

Please make an appointment to see your representative over the Presidents’ Day recess that begins Feb. 13 and lasts until Feb. 22. Representatives will be in their home districts, and we need to ask them to sign on to and speak up for HR 676.

Action Alert: Demo. at National Health Policy Conference
Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 8:30 – 10:00 AM

Where: JW Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC

What
National Health Policy Conference that includes a Congressional Plenary on Tuesday morning starting at 9:00 AM. Senator Baucus and Representative Stark start off at 9:00, followed by Senate and House staff at 9:45 AM.

The Plan
-Gather outside the hotel with banners and signs
-Street theater targeting health insurers, big Pharma and Baucus

Conyers To Introduce Universal Healthcare Bill Today

This surprises me, I assumed there would be a big announcement.

Nick Metel For Fort Wayne, Indiana News-Sentinel: Time has come for single-payer universal health care system

Appalachian Independent: AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL: DOABLE WITH HR 676

There is a Republicans for Single Payer group. Please forward the link to your Republican friends. The idea will seem less threatening if it comes from a Republican voice.

There are many Republicans today who are out of work and just discovering the hard realities of the American Health Neglect System. I am not just talking about unemployed White House or Capitol Hill operatives, I mean rank and file Republicans all over the country. They are going to start bringing their health care nightmare's to their Senators, and with luck that will give us the opening we need.

This post is the first of a series preparing for Thursday's National Call in Day. Some general considerations in contacting politicians:

In a post-anthrax world it is necessary to use the web/email contact form, telephone, or personal visit to the district office. Regular mail is delayed for weeks because of post-anthrax security procedures.

ALWAYS be courteous. It is not possible to over emphasize the importance of this.

ALWAYS be brief and to the point. No one has time to read your flowing periods. That is what blogs are for.

Community-health forum provides input to Obama's transition team

Despite very short notice, close to 150 citizens gathered in the ballroom of the Marriott Residence Inn on Dec. 22 to discuss health-care reform needs in our country.
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President-Elect Barack Obama's transition team, who encouraged communities to hold discussions on the health care system and provide them feedback, inspired this meeting. ...

... Approximately 60 percent of attendees supported a single-payer national health-insurance plan as the best solution. Specifically, the U.S. National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) was widely supported.

Report: Montanans like 'Medicare for all'

As part of a grassroots effort to reform health care, Montanans are sending ideas to President-elect Barack Obama - and, so far, many are saying that a national, ``Medicare for all'' system is the way to go.

``The consensus of (our group) was that we did not see a lot of change coming unless we went to a single-payer, universal health system,'' said Deborah Hanson of Miles City, who organized a meeting of local citizens at the behest of Obama's transition team. ``That was sort of a general consensus - knowing, of course, that may not happen.''

These house parties do not seem to have worked out quite the way Daschle intended.

Residents send health care reform recommendations to Obama

The results are in and the word is out to the Obama-Biden transition team: Sonoma wants sweeping health care reform.
At a Sonoma Valley community discussion last week, part of a nationwide response to invitations from the Obama-Biden transition team to communities throughout the country to speak up on health care, nearly 70 people spoke out individually and worked together in groups to express the problem and recommend solutions to what many described as a broken system.

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Comments on improving health care collected in Portsmouth

Day was among many at the forum who said the insurance system seems fueled by "greed" rather than the desire to keep people healthy.

"It's a disaster in this country ... we need a complete overhaul," Day said.

Many attending the forum said they support a more centralized "single payer" system that would have the government offering guaranteed coverage, like in Canada or many European nations.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazzette interviews Edith Kenna

What was the most interesting comment you heard at the meeting?

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Residents to send health-care statement to Obama

PORTAGE -- Residents concerned about the state of the nation's health care gathered at the Westminster Presbyterian Church Monday in Portage to construct a statement to send to the transition team of President-elect Barack Obama.

The group of about 15 people agreed that the United States is in need of a single-payer health-care system.

National health plan a necessity to some

We gathered in response to Barack Obama's invitation to all Americans to hold health care discussion groups and report back to him. Our input, Obama said, will inform his health care reform agenda. ...

... Everyone raised a hand when asked how many like the idea of a national health plan that would cover all Americans, no exceptions. Congressman John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, is pushing legislation (H.R. 676) to create such a plan.

Wish we had a way to know how many of these parties turned into rallies for single payer.

The single payer's strength is its focus on the general practitioners who are the backbone, blood system and brains of the medical community.

There was unanimous support for the sort of single-payer system, publicly funded and privately delivered, that would guarantee health care for every American

Tell Obama to Push for Single-Payer Health Care

Please use the Obama web site to vote your support for the single-payer position.

Presidential Transition Health Policy Team Community Health Care Discussions
Bloomington
Monday 12/29 @ 7 PM
The League of Women Voters and Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan are sponsoring a Health Care Community Discussion
Auditorium of the Monroe County Public Library 303 E Kirkwood Ave
Contact: Karen Green Stone rstone[@]hchp.info

Fort Wayne
Monday 12/ 29 @ 7 PM
The Northeast Indiana Chapter of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan will host a Health Care Community Discussion at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse 5310 Old Mill Road
Contact: Kirsten Eckert 744-7022 kelise13[@]comcast.net

Indianapolis
Monday 12/29 @ 4:30 PM

Health care reform meeting set in Bellingham

BELLINGHAM — United for National Health Care is sponsoring a forum to gather ideas for health care reform for the Obama administration.

The public is invited to the event, which is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at the Union Hall, 1700 N. State St. (near Franklin Street).

Letters to the Venture County Star

Monday, December 22: NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HR 676, Single-Payer Healthcare

The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare/National Single Payer Coalition Steering Committee has adopted an action plan that includes two national call-in days to Congressional members. PDA is a key member organization of the Leadership Conference on Guaranteed Healthcare with California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, Healthcare-NOW! , and Physicians for a National Health Plan. The call-in days will focus coalition organizations on asking their membership to call individual members of Congress to support HR676.

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Physicians for a National Health Plan has a complete set of talking points for house parties, the better to counter any lobbyists present. The also have the link to hosting a House Party. I hope residents of the Mighty Corrente Building will go and post about their experience.