July, 30th, 2009, Washington, DC, Lobby and Rally
Celebrate Medicare’s 44th Birthday by showing Congress and President Obama the people, unions, doctors, nurses, seniors, faith groups, and Americans of every stripe support a single-payer system.
As President Obama says, “We must build on what works and leave out what doesn’t.” Medicare has
successfully provided care to seniors and people with disabilities for almost half a century. Medicare is a truly American-made system that other health care systems around the world have since been modeled after. With little over 3% administrative overhead, we must look to this American solution to our health care crisis.The best way to save this system is to expand it and make it a truly single-payer system by removing the for-profit interests.
Polls consistently show that the public supports a Medicare for All system, and 59% of physicians support it. In the face of inadequate reform to our health care system, we want Congress to make sure our voice is heard.
The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care is launching a rally and lobby day on Thursday, July 30th in Washington DC with concurrent actions around the country to bring this message to Washington DC and the Congress.
The Rally and Lobby Day in DC are currently being planned and logistics will be announced soon.
We urge you and your organization to help support this important action in any of the following ways:
1) Cosponsor the event in DC by providing a donation to the effort or providing buses and/or accommodations for your members or supporters to join us for the day. Please complete the cosponsorship form below.
2) Provide a speaker for the rally planned in Washington DC.
3) Personally deliver a message to your Members of Congress on July 30th in DC and/or in the home district of your Representatives that you support expanding and improving Medicare for All.
4) Join the planning committee of this event to add support to the many things that must be done in preparation.
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We won't give up.
Ya know, a couple of near and dear ones, Obama supporters naturally, said to me yesterday that they assumed that I would be giving up on going to this event because of the President's latest statement on single-payer.
But it's not my role to give up advocating for what I believe in. That's the role of the politicians who pursue the goals politicians do pursue, whether it's reelection, consensus, their place in the history books, money, a larger policy agenda, or something else too complicated for my tiny single-payer-advocate-brain.
Policy not party!
the whole strategy
has been to persuade us to give up, and we keep not giving up.
We don't know how
... don't know how* to give up, that is!
We're single-(payer)-minded that way.
* reference to "they don't know how to pass it." Wimps.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!