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

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

600 in 241 districts

Campaign milestone:
June 27 600 participants in 47 states
in 241 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
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 spread the word, please go to the following pdf files and print the two-page (double-sided) information card and quarter sheet (double-sided) handouts and give the set of them to as many people as you possibly can.
http://www.medicareforall.org/files/InfoCard.pdf
http://www.medicareforall.org/files/Need_and_Need_to_Stop.pdf
For more information and a link to suggested procedures for how to spread the word, go here:
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

550 in 226

Campaign milestone:
June 16 550 participants in 43 states
in 226 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
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 spread the word, please go to the following pdf files and print the two-page (double-sided) information card and quarter sheet (double-sided) handouts and give the set of them to as many people as you possibly can.
http://www.medicareforall.org/files/InfoCard.pdf
http://www.medicareforall.org/files/Need_and_Need_to_Stop.pdf
For more information and a link to suggested procedures for how to spread the word, go here:
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

300 in 160

A campaign milestone:
---- 300 participants in 38 states
in 160 U.S. Congressional Districts

- Bob

Help the Take Off

For anyone wondering about the status of the Million Letters for Health Care campaign, whoever reads this can start spreading the word at a faster rate and contribute to the campaign's take-off to the one million mark.

Announcements had been limited, because final preparations had been in progress for this truly grassroots campaign.

Obama Recommends Letters

There's a new web page available today that provides one video and four audios. They document the very strong and very clear request by citizens (including audience clapping multiple times) during the Presidential campaign at Barack Obama's own health care meeting that he initiated and conducted. The requests during the meeting were for non-profit single-payer national health insurance, which is simply called "single-payer," for which he very strongly supported in 2003.

President Obama's recommendation for action when he was campaigning for the U.S. Presidency at that time is very clear: send a couple of thousand letters to every U.S. Representative, which he referenced as every U.S. Congressional District.

Go to "Obama Recomments Letters".
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Five Months Left

An original emphasis of this website was the date 9/9/2009, which happens to be significant now due to what is occurring in Washington DC. Now it's 4/9/2009, so there are 5 months left ...

Members of the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and the White House Office of Health Reform are focusing on getting national legislation prepared for a new health care law by this summer or this fall. This is a very scary time for Americans who know the facts.

A good place for any American to start is to participate in the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign by going to www.medicareforall.org.

In the meantime people in other countries will continue to be amazed. They ask Americans why we continue to deny ourselves the advantages of non-profit national health insurance:

● All necessary care.
● Everyone included, pre-natal to the end-of-life.
● Dramatically less bureaucracy = lower cost.
● No more rationing based on ability to pay.
● Freedom to choose doctors, medical facilities, professions, jobs, and employers.
● Physician impact: lower costs to run private practices; more time for patients.
● Lower business costs = recovery & creation of jobs.
● A healthier workforce. Our life expectancy is 30th in the world; we rank 19th of 19 countries in minimizing deaths due to preventable diseases! When people can get to a doctor, we'll do better!

Campaign's First Day

The Million Letters for Health Care Campaign starts today.

As some word got out before today, people had already started signing up all over the country

See here for what happened at the pace of people signing up for monthly reminders:
Graph of Number of Participants