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<div>This is really important for real health care reform.
Please call TODAY. Details are below.</div>
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<div>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!</div>
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<div>You can call Congress toll-free at any of these numbers:</div>
<div>800-828-0498</div>
<div>800-459-1887</div>
<div>800-614-2803</div>
<div>Just tell the operator which Congressperson's office you
want.</div>
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<div>Bill</div>
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<div>At 7:51 AM -0400 10/29/09, Juli3@aol.com wrote:</div>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>There's some
back-pedaling going on<br>
</b></font><a
href="http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971"
><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Call Speaker Pelosi
Today!</b></font></a><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">Dear Juli,</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">We're coming down to the
wire on the house vote for the Weiner amendment-- sources tell us the
vote is imminent,<b> assuming that Speaker Pelosi allows the vote as
she promised</b>.</font> <a
href="http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971"
><font size="-1" color="#000000">Call Speaker Pelosi</font></a><font
size="-1" color="#000000"> in support of the Weiner
amendment.</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Pelosi will announce
tomorrow the introduction of the final House bill</b>-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.</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">To make the challenge even
harder,<b> the Kucinich amendment has been stripped.</b></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">When single-payer
advocates were excluded from the White House meeting on healthcare
reform,<b> we kept pushing</b>. When the mainstream media blacklisted
discussion of single-payer as a viable solution,<b> we kept
pushing</b>. When Senator Baucus said "Single-payer is off the
table," we kept pushing.<b> It's time to push some
more.</b></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000"><i>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.</i></font> <a
href="http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971"
><font size="-1" color="#000000"><i>Click here</i></font></a><font
size="-1" color="#000000"><i>.</i></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>While the future of
single-payer healthcare hangs in the balance in Washington, we will
continue the single-payer fight in the states.</b></font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">Last week, members of the
PDA national team traveled to Pennsylvania for a</font> <a
href=
"http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/news/2009-10-21-13-00-02-news.php"><font
size="-1" color="#000000">rally at the capital
rotunda</font></a><font size="-1" color="#000000"> in Harrisburg, in
support of</font> <a href="http://healthcare4allpa.org/"><font
size="-1" color="#000000">Healthcare for All
Pennsylvania</font></a><font size="-1" color="#000000"> and their
single-payer bill.<b> The momentum for single-payer healthcare grows
daily</b>. 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.</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">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--<b>help us in this fight</b>-we need to raise an additional
$2000 this month for a materials purchase. Please consider becoming
a</font> <a
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size="-1" color="#000000">Change makes Change</font></a><font
size="-1" color="#000000"> partner for as little as five dollars a
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href="http://pdamerica.org/articles/misc/2008-01-24-01-07-46-misc.php"
><font size="-1" color="#000000">Learn about the benefits
here</font></a><font size="-1" color="#000000">.</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">We know times are tough,
which is one reason we so strongly support Medicare for All. The
savings for individuals and families under single-payer is
significant.<b> Can you help us in this fight by calling</b></font> <a
href="http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/callalert/index.tt?alertid=14249971"
><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Speaker
Pelosi</b></font></a><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b> and
joining</b></font> <a
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><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Change makes
Change</b></font></a><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>
today</b>?</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">Yours in the
movement,</font><br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1" color="#000000">Tim Carpenter<br>
PDA National Director</font><br>
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PDA's advisory board includes seven members of Congress and activist
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<div>Bill Crosier<br>
paa@crosierbiomed.com 713-641-4941<br>
Progressive Action Alliance
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