Event Alert from Dan Hodges

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Dear List Members for ActforSinglePayer/Mobilization for Health Care for All:

Mark your calendar: * Saturday, Jan. 30 * there will be a Big Meeting to gather the whole Bay Area Direct Action for Single Payer tribe to make plans for future actions.

Despite
* the great track record of actions in our brief but glorious history (sit-in at Blue Shield, occupation of Pelosi's office, die-in last Saturday at the Ferry Building)
* the expressed interest of many people from many different organizations and scenes in taking strong action for health care we can believe in, and
* the need for a strong voice for single payer to continue in the coming year,
attendance at our evening meetings has been dwindling.

Meanwhile, whatever mess happens at the federal level, single-payer activists and progressive California legislators will be putting on a big push to pass single-payer in California (a third time) in 2010.

So the spirited group of die-hards that has been coming to meetings is going to plan a lively, interesting, motivating, and inclusive meeting to bring us all together again and get ready for more action. You won't want to miss it! In addition to the 80 or so people on this list, more than 100 (I think maybe more like 200, sorry I don't remember more specifically) Bay Area people signed up to take direct action on single payer through the web site of the national Mobilization for Health Care Now. There are a lot of us -- so let's organize! Tell your friends, comrades, allies, etc. Details to follow in future emails.

In other news:

* January 11 (a Monday) the traditional annual medical and nursing students' Sacramento rally for single payer will be joined this year by lots of other organizations  (Health Care for All California, Single Payer Now, CNA, CTA, CSEA, California Alliance of Retired Americans, League of Women Voters, Council of Churches, Wellstone Democratic Club, and more) to make a huge presence for single payer at the Capitol. Many of us have to work, but if you can possibly attend, it will be a great experience and your presence will make it greater. There will be buses leaving from the Bay Area -- details to follow on that too.

Dan Hodges
Chair, Health Care for All-California

BIG MEETING JAN 30,2010

Dear List Members for ActforSinglePayer/Mobilization for Health Care for All:

The details for our Big Meeting on Jan. 30 to plan our next steps are as follows.

Time: 10 am to noon

Place: South Berkeley Senior Center - near the intersection of Ellis St. and Ashby St.

Nearest BART station: Ashby BART, 2 blocks away from So. Berkeley Senior Center

Dan Hodges
Chair, Health Care for All-California

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Manny invited you to "JANUARY 15 2010  - MARCH FOR CHANGE" on Friday, January 15 at 9:00am.

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Mobilization for HealthCare for ALL Update

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Dear Laura Lynne:

The Mobilization for Health Care for All ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794230/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ) is escalating the effort for real health care reform.

This Thursday, on International Human Rights Day, the Mobilization will have 18 actions in 13 states and Washington, DC ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794231/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ). (Support these efforts by clicking here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794232/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ).)

We are making the point that health care is a human right - that means everyone should have access to health care.

This is not just a nebulous right, but a life and death issue. We all know that 45,000 people die in the United States because of lack of access to health care. And, we know that more than a million have gone bankrupt due to health care problems. If we met the human rights standard of providing health care to all then these problems would diminish greatly.

These Mobilization actions ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794233/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ) will urge support for Sen. Bernie Sander's single payer amendment. And, we are also telling the senate to allow states to put in place a state-level single payer system. We know improved Medicare for All is the solution to the health crisis in America and we will continue to advocate for it.

Please support our efforts ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794234/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ). We are not going to give-up and accept the inadequate bills being considered in Congress. The problems in American health care will continue even if the best of these bills pass. We know that in order to get real health care reform that ongoing organizing will be essential.

We are not going to stop but cannot build the movement needed without your support. Click here to donate now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794235/28803/goto:https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1312/t/10007/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5338 ).

To find an action in your state click here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6557553120/208058568/209794236/28803/goto:http://mobilizeforhealthcare.org/upcoming-actions/ ).

Thank you for your participation and your support.

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HealthCare-NOW EMail URGENT Update

Here is the latest update in its entirety from HealthCare-NOW urging all of US to CALL our SENATORS today, and tell them to Pass Sanders/Burriss/Brown Amendment for SinglePayer "OPT-IN" Reform! Lots of content and great links....Here you go:

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Call Your Senators Today! ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759164/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders )

Call your Senators. ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759163/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) Tell them you want them to vote for Senators Sanders, Burris and Brown's amendment number 2837. Call today ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759161/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). Call now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759160/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ).

Click "Call Now" ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759158/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) to connect to your Senators and find a call script. It's easy and toll free! If you know your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 866-220-0044. To email your Senators, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759165/28803/goto:http://www.change.org/actions/view/please_support_sen_bernie_sanders_single-payer_amendments ).

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Dear Laura Lynne:

The idea of a Medicare for All type, single-payer healthcare system will be heard on the Senate floor.  This week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont filed Senate Amendment No. 2837, and there are two additional original co-sponsors of this amendment, Senator Roland Burris of Illinois and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

The idea that healthcare is a basic human right that could and should be delivered to each and every person in this nation is not a new one.  Our President knows that; our Congress knows that.  But this struggle to reform the broken, profit-driven system has carried us a very long way from the spot that would allow us to finally extend that basic human right to all.

We've drifted off to talking about excise taxes and insurance exchanges and bending the cost curves.  Amendment 2837 brings us back to the basics.

What's in a number? 45,000 people die every year in this nation without access to healthcare.

Medicare has its flaws, but overall it has provided seniors and the disabled with the best access to care that this nation could offer since the 1960s. But the rest of us have not been so lucky with our access to healthcare.  Among those not covered by Medicare or the VA, the numbers of unnecessary deaths have soared; personal bankruptcies due to medical crisis have soared.

What is a number? Poverty among seniors has dropped more than 60 percent since the adoption of Medicare.

The healthcare reform effort has largely ignored the single-payer solution. Public financing and private delivery of healthcare through a Medicare for All type system would be an elegant, cost effective and proven way to fix much of what is broken while retaining that sense of personal choice over healthcare decisions that Americans value so highly. Yet, the discussion has been muted by the powerful profit-based insurance and health industry interests that stand to gain so very much by expanding and entrenching their hold over the U.S. healthcare system through this reform process.

What's in a number? Millions of Americans file for personal bankruptcy - one every 12 seconds - because medical crisis hit them too hard. And of those bankrupt folks, two-thirds had health insurance.

The time draws short to weigh in clearly with your Senators. And with a yes vote on this amendment, Senators send us the message that they heard us, that they will keep fighting with us until the day when this nation no longer leaves the weak, the sick and the poor behind in the delivery of its most basic human rights.

Call your Senators. ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759156/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ) Tell them you want them to vote for Senators Sanders, Burris and Brown's amendment number 2837. Call today ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759162/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/now ). Call now ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759155/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). Insist on a vote for moral and fiscal sanity.

To call and find a script, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759154/28803/goto:http://tools.advomatic.com/35/sanders ). It's easy and toll free! Or, if you know your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 866-220-0044. To email your Senators, go here ( http://e2ma.net/go/6555859480/208056560/209759159/28803/goto:http://www.change.org/actions/view/please_support_sen_bernie_sanders_single-payer_amendments ).

What's in a number? Everything. Senate Amendment No. 2837. Everyone in, nobody out.

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