You can get Single Payer on the table - we just need 1 more senator to help

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From Health Care Now: TAKE ACTION THIS MONDAY

This Tuesday, May 12, the Senate Finance Subcommittee is holding its final roundtable on healthcare reform.

Single-Payer New York met with Senator Schumer , member of the Senate Finance Committee, on Friday evening. He agreed to ask Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus to include a single-payer expert if we can get another Senator on the committee to join him.
If you are a constituent of the following Senators, you can call and ask them to join Senator Schumer to ask Senator Baucus to include a single-payer expert in Tuesday's Hearing:

Stabenow - Washington DC office 202-224-4822=20
Kerry - Washington DC office [phone]
Rockefeller - Washington DC office [phone]

Other Finance Committee members are:

> Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 224-5521
> Maria Cantwell (D-WA) 224-3441
> Thomas Carper (D-DE) 224-2441
> Kent Conrad (D-ND) 224-2043
> Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AK) 224-4843
> Robert Menendez (D-NJ) 224-4744
> Bill Nelson (D-FL) 224-5274
> Ron Wyden (D-OR) 224-524

If you are not a constituent of Senators on the Finance Committee, please
call Sen. Baucus' office in Washington and urge him to extend the invitations
at 202-224-2651, or fax him at [phone].

Background: The California Nurses Association / National Nurses Organizing Commmittee has issued a request to include Roseann Demoro

Executive Director of CNA / NNOC and longtime leader in the single-payer movement. PNHP has formally submitted the names of two outstanding physicians,

Drs. Marcia Angell and Steffie Woolhandler, to testify as expert witnesses. These voices must be heard. Nurses and doctors are on the front lines of our broken health care system, and they should be the first in line to testify on health reform.

As you probably heard, at the last Senate Finance Committee hearing, physicians and single-payer advocates stood one-by-one to ask to have a seat at the table. The Senators laughed and had each one arrested. We need to end the exclusion of the only plan that will be truly universal and contain costs. Our health depends on it

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2. Kicketty.

[sandyd921]

3. I'll call Olympia Snowe tomorrow

She's also on the committee. She's a repuke so it probably won't do much good, but it's worth a try.

[John Q. Citizen]

4. I'll go down to Max's office in Missoula tommorrow morn to see what they have to say for themselves.

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5. K&Aaaaarrrr Matey!

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6. K & R and planning on action tomorow. n/t

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7. K&R

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