Health Care Now--Support HR 676

I received this good news from Health Care Now this morning:

H.R. 676 has been reintroduced: Single payer, quality, national healthcare!

This is your chance to help make history! What you do right now will make a huge difference? How can we really get to a quality national healthcare system now, this time around?

Step One: We have a great bill, H.R. 676, that covers our medical needs without continuing to support insurance companies. Improved and enhanced Medicare for All that will save about one third of every dollar we have been spending.

Step Two: We already have 45 Co-sponsors. Three are not yet listed in the official list below.

Step Three: We need YOU -- every one of you – yes YOU – to be in touch with your Congress Member today –by the end of January to be sure that he or she signs onto this bill, H.R. 676, and understands that you are committed to seeing it passed. Visit your Congress Member when he/she comes home; take a delegation with you; call your Member at work 1-866-338-1015 on our toll free number. Do it now. And send them letters from our website www.healthcare-now.org. under “Campaign Tools” and “Write Congress” Or take a big batch of postcards and hand deliver them to his/her office.

Don’t wait for someone else to do this. You don’t want to miss out on this chance to make history.


FREE CONYERS VIDEO
If you send an email to Healthcare-NOW ( info@healthcare-now.org) letting us know that your Congress member is on board, we’ll send you a free 7 minute DVD of John Conyers talking about how we can win. Just let us know. 1-800-453-1305.

Now the next part gets tricky. But it is really easier. If your Congress Member is already listed here, then you only have to call to remind him/her that you are supporting the bill and you need him/her to be sure it gets passed. It is also important to write to Congressman Charles Rangel, and call on him to hold hearings on H.R. 676 during April or as soon as possible. His fax is 202-225-0816. His phone is 202-225-4365. He has already signed onto the bill, so be sure to thank him.

Tell them all that we are sick and tired of waiting for healthcare in this country.
We want it NOW.

WAY MORE SPONSORS Our bill already has a lot more co-sponsors than any other healthcare bill in the House. The pundits and the nay-sayers are still saying it is not possible, just too hard – but they haven’t taken into account the broad and growing movement for a national single payer healthcare plan that says “Yes, we can win this. We can do it together.”

Here’s a really important point. Since the Congress has passed the Pay/Go measure mandating no deficit spending, our bill, H.R. 676, is the only one that can pass muster because it pays for itself. Pay as we go. Single payer is the only way.
By the way, if you want to read the bill, H.R. 676, just go to Thomas.gov, click in Conyers name and scroll down to 676:

OUR NEW CO-SPONSORS LIST:

Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/24/2007
Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - 1/24/2007
Rep Carson, Julia [IN-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 1/24/2007
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/24/2007
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - 1/24/2007
Rep Engel, Eliot L. [NY-17] - 1/24/2007
Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] - 1/24/2007
Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] - 1/24/2007
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 1/24/2007
Rep Green, Al [TX-9] - 1/24/2007
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] - 1/24/2007
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - 1/24/2007
Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] - 1/24/2007
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 1/24/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/24/2007
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] - 1/24/2007
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13] - 1/24/2007
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - 1/24/2007
Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 1/24/2007
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/24/2007
Rep Loebsack, David [IA-2] - 1/24/2007
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] - 1/24/2007
Rep McNulty, Michael R. [NY-21] - 1/24/2007
Rep Meehan, Martin T. [MA-5] - 1/24/2007
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] - 1/24/2007
Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4] - 1/24/2007
Rep Pastor, Ed [AZ-4] - 1/24/2007
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] - 1/24/2007
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] - 1/24/2007
Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille [CA-34] - 1/24/2007
Rep Scott, Robert C. [VA-3] - 1/24/2007
Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] - 1/24/2007
Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33] - 1/24/2007
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] - 1/24/2007
Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] - 1/24/2007
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 1/24/2007
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4] - 1/24/2007

I would be remiss not to say thank you again to all of you who have worked so hard over the past three years to get to this point. We will have hearings, and we will get this passed.

Call us up if you want more information, and go to our website www.healthcare-now.org for more guidance on what else you can do – holding hearings, getting ready for Martin Luther King Healthcare Month, (APRIL) taking an action every 6th and 7th of each month…1-800-453-1305.
If you are not yet a member, please join us now. Health Care Now.

This is a happy day,

Marilyn Clement
National Coordinator, Healthcare-NOW