Taking Action on Health Care

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From Kucinich.us

Taking Action on Health Care
The United States National Health Insurance Act is the key legislation calling for single-payer universal health care - Medicare for All - introduced by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and co-sponsored by Dennis Kucinich. 39 other cosponsors have signed onto the bill as of June 2, many within the last two weeks. Do you see your Representative on this list of cosponsors?

Arizona: Raul M. Grijalva, Ed Pastor
California: Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Barbara Lee, George Miller, Fortney Pete Stark, Diane E. Watson, Henry A. Waxman, Lynn C. Woolsey
Georgia: John Lewis
Hawaii: Neil Abercrombie
Illinois: Danny K. Davis, Luis V. Gutierrez, Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Maryland: Elijah E. Cummings, Albert Russell Wynn
Massachusetts: Barney Frank, James P. McGovern, John W. Olver
Michigan: John Conyers, Jr. (sponsor), Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
Mississippi: Bennie G. Thompson
Missouri: Wm. Lacy Clay
New Jersey: Donald M. Payne
New Mexico: Tom Udall
New York: Maurice D. Hinchey, Carolyn B. Maloney, Jerrold Nadler, Major R. Owens, Charles B. Rangel, Jose E. Serrano, Edolphus Towns, Anthony D. Weiner
Ohio: Dennis J. Kucinich
Pennsylvania: Chaka Fattah
Texas: Sheila Jackson-Lee
Virginia: Robert C. Scott
Virgin Islands: Donna M. Christensen
Washington: Jim McDermott
Wisconsin: Tammy Baldwin

If your Member of Congress is not listed as a cosponsor, please call or fax and urge cosponsorship of H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. Explain very briefly in your own words why this legislation is important to you. If your Member of Congress is already a cosponsor, call or fax your thanks and ask what you can do to help. Look up your Member of Congress's contact info by Zip Code at the top of the main House Web page.

The Bill has been referred to the Health Subcommittees of each of the House Ways and Means Committee, the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and the House Veterans' Affairs Committee. To really make a difference, tell each member of these subcommittees why you think he or she should support the Bill.

Discussion Forum contributor Martha Koester suggests that health care should be considered a part of the nation's infrastructure as much as roads and fire departments are. Read Martha's essay on Reframing the Debate on Health Care and add your comments about talking points and useful ways of thinking about the subject. The Forum section on universal single-payer health care currently has 25 active discussions. Get ideas and answers here.

Universal Health Care Action Network has a list of organizations working on state health care initiatives. Find groups in your state and get involved in working to pass local legislation. The California State Senate has just passed a single-payer health insurance bill and citizen action will be needed to help push its passage all the way through.

If health care is a key issue for you, please be sure you have marked it in the Personal Information page of our Signup system. From the main Signup page, enter your email address and password (follow the directions there if you're not signed up) and click Update Personal Information. Soon we will begin to utilize this interest data to mobilize people around specific issues.

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1. BTW, Kucinich has the best website of anyone in Congress

If you haven't been to his website, you ought to check it out.