[PAA-Discuss] URGENT: All out for Weiner and Kucinich

[Bill Crosier]

This is really important for real health care reform.  Please call 
TODAY.  Details are below.

Call both Nancy Pelosi, and your Congressperson, and ask them to 
support both the Weiner and Kucinich amendments to HR2500.  Support 
single-payer, Medicare for All!

You can call Congress toll-free at any of these numbers:
800-828-0498
800-459-1887
800-614-2803
Just tell the operator which Congressperson's office you want.

Bill


At 7:51 AM -0400 10/29/09, Juli3 at aol.com wrote:
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><http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2008-02-29-14-19-42-misc.php>
>There's some back-pedaling going on
><http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971>Call 
>Speaker Pelosi Today!
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>Dear Juli,
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>We're coming down to the wire on the house vote for the Weiner 
>amendment-- sources tell us the vote is imminent, assuming that 
>Speaker Pelosi allows the vote as she promised. 
><http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971>Call 
>Speaker Pelosi in support of the Weiner amendment.
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>Pelosi will announce tomorrow the introduction of the final House 
>bill-no amendments will be allowed. Apparently, the bill does 
>contain a public option with reimbursement rates tied to insurance 
>rates-not Medicare rates as the CPC's version does, along with 
>provisions more closely resembling the Senate's bill.
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>To make the challenge even harder, the Kucinich amendment has been stripped.
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>When single-payer advocates were excluded from the White House 
>meeting on healthcare reform, we kept pushing. When the mainstream 
>media blacklisted discussion of single-payer as a viable solution, 
>we kept pushing. When Senator Baucus said "Single-payer is off the 
>table," we kept pushing. It's time to push some more.
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>Please contact Speaker Pelosi, ask her to fulfill her promise and 
>allow the vote on the Weiner amendment, and demand that the Kucinich 
>amendment be reinserted. 
><http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971>Click 
>here.
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>While the future of single-payer healthcare hangs in the balance in 
>Washington, we will continue the single-payer fight in the states.
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>grows daily. It appears Congress will have to be forced to follow 
>the lead of states like Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Ohio and 
>Massachusetts-all working to implement single-payer healthcare at 
>the state level.
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>Our ultimate goal is to pass Medicare for All (HR 676) at the 
>federal level because we believe healthcare is a human right. But 
>first we must pass it in the states--help us in this fight-we need 
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