Unions for Single Payer Healthcare: Congratulations! Single Payer Advocates Given Invitations

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/05


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2009
8:24 AM

CONTACT: Unions for Single Payer Healthcare
(502) 636 1551
Email: nursenpo@aol.com


Victories are Good, Congratulations! Single Payer Advocates Given Invitations


WASHINGTON - March 5 - The White House has reversed itself and extended invitations for two single payer supporters to attend Thursday’s Healthcare Summit.

Congressman John Conyers, author of HR 676 single payer legislation in the House, and Dr. Oliver Fine, who currently heads Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), received invitations on Wednesday.

Single payer advocates should take heart and great pride in their role in reversing what had been a refusal to invite any single payer advocates to the Summit. The White House was inundated with phone calls, faxes and emails all urging that the invitations be extended.

A great big thank you is extended to all those who posted, distributed and otherwise spread the word and, to many, many more who actually took the time to contact the White House to object to the exclusion of single payer advocates.

This small victory should give us all hope. It should also send word to any and all who seek to keep single payer “off the table” that single payer advocates must be heard in all the committees and subcommittees of the House and Senate which will be considering healthcare reform legislation.

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HR 676 would institute a single payer health care system by expanding a greatly improved Medicare system to everyone residing in the U. S.

HR 676 would cover every person for all necessary medical care including prescription drugs, hospital, surgical, outpatient services, primary and preventive care, emergency services, dental, mental health, home health, physical therapy, rehabilitation (including for substance abuse), vision care, hearing services including hearing aids, chiropractic, durable medical equipment, palliative care, and long term care.

HR 676 ends deductibles and co-payments. HR 676 would save hundreds of billions annually by eliminating the high overhead and profits of the private health insurance industry and HMOs.

In the current Congress, HR 676 has 62 co-sponsors in addition to Conyers.

HR 676 has been endorsed by 485 union organizations in 49 states including 120 Central Labor Councils and Area Labor Federations and 39 state AFL-CIO's (KY, PA, CT, OH, DE, ND, WA, SC, WY, VT, FL, WI, WV, SD, NC, MO, MN, ME, AR, MD-DC, TX, IA, AZ, TN, OR, GA, OK, KS, CO, IN, AL, CA, AK, MI, MT, NE, NY, NV & MA).

For further information, a list of union endorsers, or a sample endorsement resolution, contact:

Kay Tillow
All Unions Committee For Single Payer Health Care--HR 676
c/o Nurses Professional Organization (NPO)
1169 Eastern Parkway, Suite 2218
Louisville, KY 40217
(502) 636 1551
Email: nursenpo@aol.com
http://unionsforsinglepayerHR676.org 03/04/09

I never know if those things help, but I know they can't hurt.

We gotta keep the pressure on.

to find out a few weeks ago that single payer was off the table.
I am not convinced it is back on the table or the WH is doing this now --once they got hammered by the grassroots advocates.

thanks

know that we support their effort.


I think we should all send them an email (

health care plan is signed or they will be left out again. It's good to know that the Obama adminstration is listening to its citizens unlike the Reich dictatorship we had previously.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/03/05


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2009
8:24 AM


CONTACT: Unions for Single Payer Healthcare
(502) 636 1551
Email: nursenpo@aol.com
Victories are Good, Congratulations! Single Payer Advocates Given Invitations

WASHINGTON - March 5 - The White House has reversed itself and extended invitations for two single payer supporters to attend Thursday’s Healthcare Summit.

Congressman John Conyers, author of HR 676 single payer legislation in the House, and Dr. Oliver Fine, who currently heads Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), received invitations on Wednesday.

Remove the age restrictions from MediCare.

Mandatory For Profit Insurance is NOT Health Care.
It IS a Republican SCAM.

Support a Democratic Plan...HR676

http://www.pnhp.org/publications/united_states_national...

Here is a list of the C0-Sponsors.
I have a BIG PROBLEM with DINOs who are NOT on this list.


Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 2/11/2009
Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 1/26/2009
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 1/26/2009
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. - 2/23/2009
Rep Brady, Robert A. - 2/11/2009
Rep Brown, Corrine - 3/3/2009
Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 2/23/2009
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. - 1/26/2009
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 1/26/2009
Rep Cleaver, Emanuel - 2/23/2009
Rep Cohen, Steve - 1/26/2009
Rep Costello, Jerry F. - 2/3/2009
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 2/23/2009
Rep Davis, Danny K. - 1/26/2009
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 1/26/2009
Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 1/26/2009
Rep Edwards, Donna F. - 1/26/2009
Rep Ellison, Keith - 1/26/2009
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 1/26/2009
Rep Farr, Sam - 1/26/2009
Rep Fattah, Chaka - 2/11/2009
Rep Filner, Bob - 2/11/2009
Rep Frank, Barney - 1/28/2009
Rep Green, Al - 2/23/2009
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. - 1/26/2009
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 1/26/2009
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 2/23/2009
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 1/26/2009
Rep Hirono, Mazie K. - 2/23/2009
Rep Honda, Michael M. - 2/11/2009
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 1/26/2009
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. - 2/3/2009
Rep Kaptur, Marcy - 1/26/2009
Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 2/23/2009
Rep Kildee, Dale E. - 2/23/2009
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 1/26/2009
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 1/26/2009
Rep Lee, Barbara - 1/26/2009
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 2/23/2009
Rep Massa, Eric J. J. - 1/26/2009
Rep McDermott, Jim - 1/26/2009
Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/3/2009
Rep Meeks, Gregory W. - 1/26/2009
Rep Moore, Gwen - 2/11/2009
Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 1/26/2009
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 1/26/2009
Rep Olver, John W. - 1/26/2009
Rep Payne, Donald M. - 3/3/2009
Rep Pingree, Chellie - 1/26/2009
Rep Polis, Jared - 1/28/2009
Rep Rush, Bobby L. - 2/23/2009
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 2/23/2009
Rep Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" - 2/23/2009
Rep Thompson, Bennie G. - 2/23/2009
Rep Tierney, John F. - 1/28/2009
Rep Tonko, Paul D. - 1/26/2009
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 2/23/2009
Rep Watson, Diane E. - 1/26/2009
Rep Welch, Peter - 2/23/2009
Rep Wexler, Robert - 2/11/2009
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 1/26/2009
Rep Yarmuth, John A. - 2/23/2009

If YOUR Rep is NOT on this list, call them and ask "WHY NOT ?"

never has a Democratic opponent so he doesn't even have to work to get reelected or worry about it.