Facelift

Our small Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! team has made a key set of changes that I am calling a "Facelift." -- Bob

The Homepage Title is hereby "Health Care for All NOW." This title fits well with the fact that the web site can now be accessed by entering www.healthcareforallnow.org (or www.healthcareforallnow.com or www.99oh9.org).

The Homepage content is now more positive and is more focused on the primary reasons for the web site: U.S. citizens writing notes, spreading the word, using the Support Monitor, voting in the November 4, 2008 election and joining the campaign. The Table of Contents on the left of every web page was updated similarly.

Note-Writing is now the title of the activity rather than letter-writing due to a tip that I received from a fellow single-payer activist in mid-November at the annual national strategy meeting of the Healthcare-Now organization.

After all, the only thing that the U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators need is a personally-composed note of short or medium length that states the input from the constituents (us!)

It is much more important that there be thousands of people in each U.S. Congressional District expressing themselves with a note than in worrying about the size of that note.

Read Our Notes! Watch Our Votes! and Our Notes and Our Votes is now seen in the web site pages due to the change to note-writing.

Candidates in U.S. Elections Who are Single-Payer Supporters can now be entered by me as soon as I learn the information about the candidate. That's a feature that the webmaster and I had been looking forward to providing.

As a challenger for a seat in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate announces their candidacy they can communicate their support ( at "Submit Support" ) by providing a reference on the internet where that support is publicly viewable.

I changed the note-writing schedule to a full month to write letters rather than focusing on only the 9th day of the month. The months are March, June, September and December. Send letters either on the 9th of the month or any day during the month.

I am now using the more conservative and more defensible quantity of "over half" to describe the number of Americans who support single-payer national health insurance. We made that change at the web site and added a chart and the associated details that clearly show the degree of support being over half.

A convenient 1/2 page handout is also now available and is reported separately. See the December 10 Latest News.