Congressman Wiener needs your help on his single payer Medicare For All amendment.

Do it. Thanks.

Dear xxxxx

Congressman Wiener needs your help on his single payer Medicare For All amendment. I just got back from a conference in Boston where Rep. Wiener asked for help on two things:

First, and urgently, he wants people to contact Speaker Pelosi and ask her to keep her promise to allow a floor amendment and floor debate on a single payer amendment to the House bill. Although the Speaker promised such a floor amendment in July , there is a strong likelihood that she will back down on that promise in the very near future unless she gets a flood of emails, faxes or calls. So let's flood Nancy Pelosi's office with faxes like we did once before.

http://www.1payer.net/faxapp/senders/add/cid:40

Remarkably, Speaker Pelosi said in Democratic Caucus "If it were up to me, we would have single payer." Let's remind Nancy Pelosi with a flood of faxes: it IS up to her because she is the Speaker.

Second, Rep. Wiener asked that we flood our Congresspersons with calls and push them to support the single payer Medicare For All amendment. About 100 other Congressmen are solidly behind it now and even blue dogs are wavering, so Wiener thinks a push on Congress will help a great deal. You can send a fax supporting the Wiener single payer Medicare For All amendment right now. Just click here.

You can send a FREE fax to Pelosi very simply and easily.

Here is the link to the fax.

It simply asks Pelosi to keep her promise for a floor debate in the House. The Pelosi fax linked above is very important. You can also call her office at

202-225-4965.

Don't let her back down on her promise of a single payer floor debate in the House.

Thanks for posting.

.... anything that moves the final bill leftward is fine by me.

Besides, the House will need something productive to do while they wait for the Blue Dogs in the Senate to decide what party they're in.

ETA: I also appreciate all of the work that Mr. Weiner is doing.

Thank you Congressman Wiener. :applause:

Dear Speaker Pelosi,

Before the August recess, you promised to allow floor debate on a single payer Medicare For All substitute amendment for the House health reform bill. We heard you make that promise to Rep.Anthony Wiener. We are counting on you to keep that promise.

Before we can have a debate we need the CBO to score the Medicare For All amendment and unless the CBO is pushed to do this as soon as possible there will be no REAL debate.

In caucus you said that "If it were up to me, we would have single payer." Well, Speaker Pelosi, it really IS UP TO YOU. Please keep your promise.

The Democrats are on very shaky ground with me, I am so angry that they have silenced a national health care plan for everyone, paid through taxes, when polls showed that 65% of the American people favored such a system in December 2007.

Once the baby boom generation begins to enroll in Medicare in 2011 the government costs will increase significantly, yet we are told that somehow any Medicare efficiencies will be used to partially fund the current proposals. That does not make any sense to me and there could be serious ramifications in the years ahead, unfortunately the Democrats will deserve the blame.

At the very least you could push for an estimate, give ample time for the public to review the information, then have a debate and vote. The American people deserve to know what the options are before they support a health care plan.

Thank you,

Although I'm going to rewrite that in my own words.

Ditto for my Congressional corporatist prostitutes.

cc: John Boehner

will forward to my grown daughters

K&R

:kick:

text of the amendment?

DC office
202.225.6616

Other phone numbers
http://weiner.house.gov/email_anthony.aspx

Thats not Weiner's amendment.

Wyden is not Weiner

http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090731/hr3200_weiner_1.pdf


Overview of Cong. Weiner amendment:

http://pnhp.org/amendment/Amendment_Overview.pdf

(you can also get the embedded links at the PNHP website below)


These links are from:

Physicians for a National Health Program



http://www.pnhp.org/amendment/

Urge your rep to vote 'Yes' for single payer!

This fall presents a historic opportunity for members of Congress to go on the record in support of single-payer legislation.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) is introducing a substitute amendment to the House leadership’s bill, H.R. 3200, that would delete the language of that bill and substitute the provisions of H.R. 676, the single-payer, Medicare-for-All bill sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised a full floor vote on Weiner’s amendment in the weeks or months ahead.

The Weiner amendment, unlike the House leadership’s bill, assures universal, comprehensive, and high-quality coverage, free choice of doctor and hospital, and no co-pays or deductibles through a publicly financed system similar to Medicare. Because of the massive savings on private insurance overhead and paperwork, the Weiner amendment would entail no increase in U.S. health spending, in contrast to the House bill’s $1 trillion price tag over 10 years.

Write your representative today in support of the Weiner amendment. If you can, arrange a meeting with your congressperson; you can find tips on how to do so here and talking points here. Finally, please write to Rep. Weiner so he knows that he has our support in his fight for real health reform.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) successfully offered an amendment to the House leadership’s bill that, if incorporated into final legislation passed by the Congress and signed by the president, would allow states to adopt their own single-payer system if they chose to do so. Specifically, Kucinich’s amendment would waive certain ERISA provisions that could be used to obstruct such a move.

While PNHP works for a national single-payer program, and while we more specifically supports the passage of H.R. 676, we welcome any efforts to move toward single payer. We therefore encourage you to write your representative today in support of the Kucinich amendment.

Resources

Write your representative in support of the Weiner amendment

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/307/t/9290/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27743