YEAR-END STATUS REPORT ...
THE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL MOVEMENT to get U.S. single-payer national health insurance
Overall in the movement, many people are doing excellent efforts to educate citizens and to get them active in a variety of ways to support U.S. H.R. 676 legislation for single-payer national health insurance. National and state organizations are still active in their efforts.
Criteria for Measuring Progress --- The bottom-line of progress is
- having a good current rate of increase in support by U.S. Representatives
- having a good current rate of increase in support by U.S. Senators
- having a supportive U.S. Presidential candidate
- getting endorsements made by individual states.
Status --- As the year ended, little or no progress occurred across the four measurements during the fourth quarter of 2007.
- U.S. Representatives: 2 more during the last 3 months -- we are now at 19%; we need 67% -- That rate would take us over 25 years to get single-payer. We cannot wait that long.
- U.S. Senators: still zero -- no support
- U.S. Presidential candidate front-runners -- no support
- State resolutions -- 2 of 50 states: Kentucky and New Hampshire, passed resolutions supporting U.S. H.R. 676 in the first quarter of 2007.
Snapshot from the Single-Payer Support Monitor --- The graphical results and the numbers are below. The graph was copied from the second graph of the following web page, where a higher resolution copy can be viewed:
http://www.ninenineohnine.org/pages/Graphs_of_Progress
Current Support Level from the U.S. Congress and U.S. Presidential Candidates
- U.S. Representatives: 84 now, up from 82 three months ago; these are the number of cosponsors of U.S. House Resolution H.R. 676
- U.S. Senators: zero
- U.S. Presidential candidate front-runners: zero
- U.S. Representatives --- 100 is the minimum required starting point: 100 cosponsors are necessary to have the resolution debated on the floor of the U.S. House
- U.S. Representatives --- 292 compared to the current 84 ... to pass legislation
--- 292 votes in favor of the legislation are necessary to get the resolution passed without a supportive U.S. President, since no front-runner candidate supports single-payer national health insurance - U.S. Senators --- 67 compared to the current number of zero ... endorsers of H.R. 676 or cosponsors of a Senate version
YEAR-END STATUS REPORT
... NINE-NINE-OH-NINE! NOTES AND VOTES CAMPAIGN
- The web site was developed with its useful tools, such as the Support Monitor. For some examples of the more recent progress at the web site see the Facelift posting of December 4.
- The 535 members of the U.S. Congress were informed with a hand-delivered notice to their offices in mid-June.
- The 84 supporters of the U.S. Congress were informed of the status with a hand-delivered notice to their offices in early November.
- National organizations were informed.
- Status: a firestorm of Notes and Votes activity now very much needs your participation.
PLANNED NOTES AND VOTES ACTIVITIES BY CITIZENS
- The Power of the People via Notes and Votes
- Writing of personally composed notes in Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec
... plus the start-up month of January '08 - Incumbents and candidates making public statements, press releases and web site postings so that they then get documented in the Support Monitor
- Citizen monitoring of the Single-Payer Support Monitor to know who supports the Will of the People---- both those in office and those opposing candidates who might be taking their places!
- Voting on November 8, 2008 with consideration of who supports single-payer.
Let's proceed to make a dramatic jump in progress in 2008!
References: See the Single-Payer Support Monitor, especially the Supporters by State.
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