Thursday, July 30, 2009

About the Media

Now is an excellent time for this reminder:

Fully appreciate the media's power over opinions:

http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Media

This new web page is linked from the "Real Life Stories" web page.

- Bob for all those who are working to help make the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign a success

Thursday, July 16, 2009

PLEASE DO THIS

Please go here to the Sign Up page and enter your information to sign up.

A special note follows for those who have signed up previously

Sign Up Page: expanded scope. The scope of the Sign Up web page is now to not only sign up for the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign, but also for the following:
-- to give us a little more information that we need to have a strong single-payer movement
-- to give you a selection of what level of participation --- if any (beyond the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign) --- that you want to do within your U.S. Congressional District group within the single-payer movement.

You now have an opportunity to be a coordinator within the movement, such as a coordinator for your precinct/neighborhood ... or
your city/county ... or your entire U.S. Congressional District. Or you can leave the default of "None".

Thanks in advance for taking this step! By doing this you save us time, money and effort.

Bob Haiducek, Million Letters for Health Care Campaign
Wm. Ferguson Reid, MD national contact for the 435 U.S. Congressional District groups

720 in 261 districts

Campaign milestone:
July 16 720 participants in 47 states (plus District of Columbia) and in 261 U.S. Congressional Districts: over half of the 435 U.S. Congressional Districts

List of milestones:



Date
Number of
Participants
Number of
States
Number of
Districts
July 16
720
47
261
June 27
600
47
241
June 16
550
43
226
June 13
520
43
215
June 11
420
41
189
May 31
300
38
189


Note about the June 16 milestone: over half of the 435 U.S. Congressional Districts are now represented among the participants.



As the momentum of this important campaign continues to build, the numbers will grow at a faster and faster rate. Therefore, the reporting of milestones will move from the hundreds to the thousands to the tens of thousands!

Whoever can and wants to spread the word, please go to the following web page to print the quarter sheet (double-sided) (black and white) handout and give it to people, according to the instructions provided. Also use the sign up sheet to get their information to send to the campaign e-mail address and postal address. See all the information, including suggested procedures of how to approach people:
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Resources

We very much need for all Americans to have heard of "single-payer" and to learn at least some key information about what means ... and then have a million or more sign up for the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign ... and have at least 2,299 participants in each U.S. Congressional District. The progress per district is seen here:
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Status_by_District

- Bob

Monday, July 13, 2009

What can I do to help?

Please take a look at the top of this web page:

http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/Resources

Look at the first "critical action" section titled "What Can I Do to Help?"

- Bob for all those who are working to help make the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign a success