12-12-12

12-12-12

 
 
For information about the 12-12-12 launch of the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign, go here.


This is very exciting! Thanks to recent help from so many people.

- Bob

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

Still a GO!

Still a "GO!"

 
We are still very much in a "GO!" status for the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign.

What I mean is that we are still moving forward with the preparations for this massive education and communications campaign.

You can believe in this statement:
We can and will get national single-payer health care, Improved Medicare for All.

However, you can also believe this:
- The campaign must have more donors. Please donate.
- The campaign must have more persons to help with the final development work, the final projects. Please contact me.

Thanks!

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

Advance preparation

Examples of advance
preparation activities.

 
In my last post I referred to a conversation that was initiated by a man who noticed my large 3.5-inch Medicare for All button. That man probably noticed it because it is large enough to be seen at a distance. I like it much better than the smaller 2.25-inch button for that reason of visibility.

Here is a combination of actions of what I do in the way of advance preparations, which I started in July:

1. I carry a very small notebook for writing down e-mail addresses and names. I protect it in some way. I either have it in my shirt pocket or I put it in my camera bag, attached to my waist belt, with or without the camera.

2. My increased use of that large button is one of my ways of doing some advance preparations, now that we know we are months, not years, of launching the increased promotion of the education and communications campaign "Million Letters for Health Care".

3. When I am interacting someone ** about another subject ... whether I am wearing the button or not, if the situation and amount of time allows it, I mention that I work on getting health care for everyone in the country. As the subsequent conversation proceeds, I often ask if the person wants me to contact them when the website is ready. If yes, then I write their email address and name in the small notebook. If they have no email address, I just note their name and where I saw them, especially if they are a worker in a store.



** The majority of the time the "someone" is a woman who appears to me to be in her 20's or older. It has been my experience that women tend to be more likely than men to care about health and health care.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

Another no-bills experience

Another no-bills experience.

 
This afternoon an American man sitting in his car at a supermarket parking lot commented about my large (3.5 inch) Medicare for All button.

During the chat he shared an experience of a Canadian young man who was in a horrible automobile accident. One of the results of the accident is that the young man's liver was ripped from his body. After the young man's recovery his friends and relatives in the United States learned that there was no medical bill involved.


The American man, an elderly person, is mad that it seems like Medicare is being taken away from us in the United States, while other countries get health care.

When we ramp up our education and communications campaign, we will then be headed stronger than ever toward Americans having no-bills health care experiences.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

Disbelief

Disbelief.

 
I learned of the experiences of two college teachers regarding health care. They observe that college students are stunned with disbelief when they are told of the health conditions of Americans compared with other countries, such as our relatively low life expectancy.

When we ramp up our education and communications campaign, we will help to change whatever degree of disbelief there is into general knowledge. Progress can be made to get improved Medicare for All via the resulting power of the people's knowledge.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

All is well.

All is well.

 
I had a frightening thought, then recovered. There's no need to panic. We, the American people, will be the ones with the power, not the politicians, not the opposition.

Some activists for health care for all (that is, single-payer health care, improved Medicare for All) are probably very excited. If I recall correctly from my glances at articles during this week of Supreme Court discussions, there has been some degree of comment(s) among Supreme Court Justices that referenced health care for all (as noted). At its extreme, a change of direction the U.S. Congress could establish and pass health care for all -- universal health care -- single-payer health care -- IMPROVED Medicare for All.

If anyone is thinking that, I suggest that you come back to reality as I quickly did. If that passage of a law occurred, the details would assuredly NOT be what we want. Somehow, some way, the members of Congress would mess it up. It certainly would not look like H.R. 676.

Fortunately, any "progress" like that is still not possible ... for the obvious reasons that have been in place for decades. We must establish the power of the people first so that the American people are mentally prepared for change and so that some of those informed citizens (voters) will establish the political will that the politicians say is missing.

Some might call that "fighting". So be it. At the Medicare for All website we word it like this: "Millions of informed citizens communicating: more power than the opposition’s media and lobbyists." We can and will establish that power. The law be what we, the people, want.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".

Lost member

Lost a member among
the Medicare for All teams.

In January 2012 Robin Elizabeth Nadeau died.

From her obituary:
" ... Robin never accepted the possibility that there was not hope, and had indomitable faith that ordinary people, working together, could achieve important things. In inspiring others with her enormous energy and her passion for liberty, equality, justice, and the care of our planet, she proved this to be true."

To Robin: We will maintain hope. Like you clearly knew, we know that we can and will get single-payer health care, improved Medicare for All.

Maintain hope like Robin did!

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of myself and also all the Americans who ... including Robin Nadeau ... have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the education and communications campaign titled "Million Letters for Health Care".