Call-In for Single Payer

[marmar]

from HEALTHCARE-Now!


http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/call/



National Call In Days to Support HR 676
The second Call-In Day on January 15th will target the Washington DC offices.

This Call-In Day has four objectives:
1. If your Rep. hasn’t already, tell them to co-sponsor HR 676.
2. If your Rep. is a past co-sponsor, thank them and urge them to co-sponsor again.
3. Ask your Rep. to attend a Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care briefing on January 28th from noon to 2pm in Room 2237 of the Rayburn Building.
4. Ask your Senators to introduce a companion bill to HR 676 in the Senate.

Please follow the following steps for a successful phone call. It’s very important that you complete step 4 and report to us that you made calls. Thanks!

Step 1–Is Your Rep. Already an HR 676 Co-Sponsor?
Find out if your representative http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR00676:@@@P">supports HR 676.

Step 2–Find Your Rep.’s DC Office Phone Number
If you don’t know your congresspersons’ DC office phone number, please follow these five easy steps:

1. Go to www.VoteSmart.org.
2. Enter your ZIP code in the top left of the page.
3. Click on a congressperson.
4. Click on “Complete Contact Information” under their photo.
5. Their phone numbers and addresses are under their photo.

Step 3–Call Your US Rep. and US Senators
Call, email, or fax your US Representative and US Senators. We prefer that you call over fax or email.

Draft scripts are below (activists should tweak the call scripts as appropriate for their individual groups). It should also be noted that a high volume of calls have been getting through to Congress, so some activists suggested shortening the script as the call-in day progresses.

Ask for the Chief of Staff or Healthcare Aide to leave your message and use these scripts to help shape the message of your call.

If your Rep. IS an HR 676 Co-sponsor:
Hi, my name is ______. I am calling to thank Representative ______ for his/her support of HR676, John Conyers’ National Health Insurance Act.

Conyers already reintroduced HR676 and I want to reaffirm my support for HR676, single payer healthcare legislation and ask Rep. ______ to do the same by signing on again as a co-sponsor working for true reform of this terrible healthcare system.

l also request that the Congress person, or a staff member, attend the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care briefing on January 28th from 3-5pm in room 2237 of the Rayburn Building.

With cost-savings estimated at $1.1 trillion dollars over ten years, plus guaranteed health coverage for every American, single-payer national health insurance must be part of our economic recovery plan.

If you have any questions about single payer or about me, please call me at ______. Thank you.

If your Rep. is NOT an HR 676 co-sponsors:
Hi, my name is ______. I am calling to urge Representative _______ to support of HR676, John Conyers’ National Health Insurance Act.

Conyers already reintroduced HR676 and I want to reaffirm my support for HR676, single payer healthcare legislation and ask Rep. ______ to do the same by signing on as a co-sponsor and working for true reform of this terrible healthcare system.

I request that you attend the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care briefing on January 28th from 3-5pm in Room 2237 of the Rayburn Building.

With cost-savings estimated at $1.1 trillion dollars over ten years, and guaranteed coverage for every American, single payer national health insurance must be part of our economic recovery.

If you have any questions about single payer or about me, please call me at ______. Thank you.

Message to your US Senator:
Hi, my name is ______. I am calling to urge Senator ______ to sponsor companion legislation in the Senate to HR 676, the National Health Insurance Act, that will implement a national single-payer health care system in the United States.

The current health care legislation posed for discussion in the Senate is using the failed Massachusetts reform as a model for the nation. The reform in Massachusetts is leaving thousands uninsured and is far too expensive to be sustained because it leaves profit in the middle of our health care system. In the most recent election, local ballot initiatives supporting single payer and opposing individual mandates passed by landslide margins in all ten legislative districts where they appeared. With almost all precincts tallied, roughly 73 percent of 181,000 voters in the ten districts voted YES in support of a single-payer system.

Say no to Massachusetts style health care, and yes to single payer health care as proposed in HR 676. If you have any questions about single payer or about me, please call me at ______. Thank you.

.....More at: http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/call/

[leftstreet]

1. K&R

[jody]

2. "All individuals residing in the United States . . . are covered under the USNHI Program". That

includes illegal aliens and will be controversial.

[Mojorabbit]

3. I missed this

but will call tomorrow anyway.