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Based on the enthusiasm and excitement expressed so far it looks like the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign will be one of the biggest grassroots activities that the United States has ever seen.

The first official month of the campaign is April, during which time I and others will be notifying many more Americans about this opportunity to do the following 10 Minutes-a-Month Activity:

1 letter in the U.S. Mail to 1 person (U.S. Representative) 1 time per month after getting 1 reminder on the 1st of the month.

We need to work in our districts to get 2,299 in each district to sign up for the campaign by Getting Monthly Reminders.

The 2,299 participants in each of the 435 U.S. Congressional Districts equals a total of 1 million people.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Get Ready, Get Set ...

Status of Education -- it will happen naturally.

For a long time I thought the need was to educate as many Americans as possible FIRST ... and THEN get those Americans to write letters to their U.S. Representatives.

We've run out of time for that kind of ideal focus. [Although we DO need to try to have answers to questions and know which website is going to have those answers.]

As a brand new activist in Missouri observed to me this week in an e-mail, "... education is great, and will happen naturally (and by always having your great handouts with us!) when we're out talking to people to get names." (The handouts are being developed.)

Status of Contacting Affected Americans -- it must happen now.

Mentally prepare to get your track shoes on. (Get Ready, Get Set ...)

We must move very fast to contact the people who are most affected, which is not the "rich" (those comfortable with their situation, that is) and not the poor. It's the uninsured, the under-insured, the individuals whose costs are skyrocketing the most, the small businesses who hire those individuals and cannot afford to provide benefits. It's the couple in Massachusetts who implemented mandated health insurance and are faced now with a $7,000 per year premium and a $42,000 per year income!

"While the employee of a regional electric utility is complaining about monthly payroll deductions for his family that now exceed $500 or more on a $60,000 annual salary, the longtime employee of a local small electrician is looking at monthly payroll deductions for his family of $1,500 on a $35,000 annual salary. His apprentice is younger, and so is "fortunate" to have monthly deductions for his family of only $900 on a $20,000 annual salary. The electrician's helper making $9/hr can't afford even his half of the premium for just himself." --- as written by a health insurance agent

That same insurance agent wrote: "It is all of these folks (and there are tens of millions of them), coupled with those who have already been priced out of the market altogether, who will fuel the fire for radical reform."

But, unless we get our track shoes on, we will never contact those people who are suffering the most. Unless we find a handful, and then get referrals to other people, we will never reach them. Ask for their names, then contact them. Just this afternoon a friend called me. Before we finished the chat, I asked for and was given the name and information of an uninsured person in Michigan in another city.

So get mentally ready, because I will be ready to give you some "tools" to use on or before April 1, 2009.

Regards, Bob Haiducek
Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Confirmation

The conclusion has been confirmed again:
that over half of Americans want non-profit financing of health care.

You can feel solid that Americans want this.

See the updated version of the homepage with the confirmed information on it.
Chart of Americans' Support

Regards, Bob Haiducek
Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Vote by Jan 15, 5 pm

I recommend you going to the following web page and voting as it indicates there. Then, afterwards, act on the suggestions related to telling others about single-payer and about this voting opportunity.
A Million Votes for Single-Payer
(where million means as many as possible as fast as possible, since the deadline is January 15 at 5 p.m.)

This is an opportunity to spread the word about non-profit single-payer national health insurance and H.R. 676 and to get people to
learn or learn more.

Regards, Bob Haiducek
Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Status end-of-year 2008

The Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! campaign has been ready to help people communicate to their U.S. Representatives (and optionally others) since late 2007.

Broader implementation. I invite my fellow Americans to join me for the full-blown strategy, which is to first educate citizens to prepare for the change, answer all of their questions and comments, and then ask those citizens to get reminders to do the communications. If any questions, please contact me.

- Bob

2 Months

It is now less than 2 months before the next session of the U.S. Congress.

I am more concerned than ever about what I wrote at my "4 months" posting at this blog. I have refined my thinking about the details, wrote up a description of the strategy, and shared it with activists from around the country.

Pardon the repetition of the posting of comments titled "4 months", but we must educate our fellow Americans. Education will be one of the main factors that contributes to our success.

We need to ask those educated Americans to get reminders and to follow the Schedule as part of each of them communicating to their U.S. Representative.

-- Bob

4 Months

There are 4 months before the next two-year session of the United States Congress. I am still a possibility thinker when it comes to accomplishing non-profit single-payer national health insurance. No matter what happens in the next 4 months and during the next 12 months (by 9/9/2009) I believe that there is more required activity than just getting people aware and excited about the need for single-payer. We need to educate each other so that as many people as possible are prepared for the positive change to our society. I call it having enough knowledge to be focused on the goal, the vision, of the future. Another person calls it being immunized. No matter what words are used, we Americans need to have our minds solidly on the goal and not have our opinions sway in the breeze when we hear or see any campaign activity that involves anything besides the elimination of for-profit bureaucracy and government bureaucracy. We must achieve simplicity and efficiency so that we can do a significant accomplishment that will help recover businesses, jobs, health and the unnecessary loss of lives.

Status August 2008

The Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! campaign has been ready to help people communicate to their U.S. Representatives (and optionally others) since late 2007.

Broader implementation. I invite my fellow Americans to join me for the full-blown strategy, which is to first educate citizens to prepare for the change and then ask those citizens to get reminders to do the communications. If any questions, please contact me.

- Bob

Notes and Votes Update

The Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! Notes and Votes campaign has been improved, including being simplified.

Get Knowledge at Single-Payer Education.

Communicate to your U.S. Representative (U.S. Congressperson)

• See the Schedule for monthly communications via writing (or e-mailing) notes and making phone calls -- to Washington, D.C.

• The instructions provide all the information you need, including the option of also communicating to your U.S. Senators and to U.S. Presidential candidates.

Notes and Votes

Suggested Actions on the Notes and Votes Schedule to Help Get Single-Payer

Educating of ourselves and others and communicating to our U.S. Representatives are the two most important activities that can be done to help get Health Care for All with non-profit single-payer national health insurance.

Write a note each quarter --- and send it to Washington, D.C.

• Write to your U.S. Representative via a personally-composed note.
  
• Send it via the U.S. Mail (recommended) or optionally by e-mail
• Send it on (or near) the 6th or 7th of the month (9th of each of the following months or sometime during these months ... March, June, September and December.
• The instructions provided when provide all the information you need to also communicate to your U.S. Senators and to U.S. Presidential candidates
  

Call the other 8 months --- to the Washington, D.C. office

• Call your U.S. Representative's Washington D.C. office via a toll-free number in each of the following months ... Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Jul, Aug, Oct, Nov

Spread the Word to others