From Healthcare - NOW

Here are some of our plans for the coming fall and spring, and we hope you will help us succeed:

1. A National Roadshow featuring the DVD of SiCKO, will invite people to caravan with us to the next city and urge people to come to the Road Show, tell their healthcare story on video tape (which we will send to Michael Moore) and to hear about the solution to healthcare in this country – a guaranteed, national, single-payer healthcare system for everyone, guaranteed – for life! We will also be talking about and demonstrating how we can get from here to there. You are invited to come along with us and even join us as an organizer or a driver, a camera person or a short order cook along the route. We plan to launch the Road Show in November.

2. A SiCKO Action Guide is in the works -- something that you can use in meetings, house parties, your church, your union, your student group , or with business associates, anywhere you intermingle with other people to discuss the issues raised in “SiCKO” and your own experience with the healthcare system – We’ll also be talking about solutions on this power point/ pamphlet.

3. Our new Washington advocacy office can help you with meetings you’re your Congress person in D.C. or at home in your home district. She can supply information on your Member of Congress and information on how you can help get at least 100 Members of Congress signed onto H.R. 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act. We now have 78 co-signers and we are shooting for 100. Call Elyse Seigle at our D.C. office -- 202-488-5650

4. Truth Hearings in communities nationwide. Pull together your community. Tell the truth about the system and talk about the solution – everywhere. If you are organizing a Healthcare-NOW truth hearing, be in touch with our office or look at the ACTION pages on our website, and get some organizing help and lists of speakers.

5. Creation of ads for key television markets to help people understand how a national healthcare system would work.

YOU CAN HELP!

It is entirely possible that we will win a national single payer, guaranteed healthcare system during the next few months. We must work to elect a progressive congress – a huge majority in 2008 and we must build a huge constituency for single payer guaranteed healthcare during the next 14 months. That Congress will be expected to lay a single payer health plan, H.R. 676, in front of the newly elected president in order to get it implemented during 2009.

Since you are a part of Healthcare-NOW, we hope you will pick up a part of this task. Look for progressive candidates. If you have a Member in your District who is supportive of our goals, be sure to get that person elected.

You are one of 50,000 people on this list now – people who see the need for a national healthcare system. We have support from virtually sector of the society.

The people want it.