Education and Communications

Education and Communications.

What the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign is all about. 

Education. Millions of Americans becoming informed about Improved Medicare for All basics: facts, testimonials, and frequently asked questions.

In case some Americans want more, we provide much more: links to more facts, more testimonials, a very large set of answers to questions and concerns and a commitment to continuous improvement of what we provide to you.

Communications.  Millions of informed citizens, communicating monthly to the U.S. Congress, is more powerful than the opposition's lobbyists and media!

It's time for the United States to implement the best health-care-for-all system. Other countries implemented theirs between 1883 and 1975, giving the U.S. over 100 years to do the same. Now it's our turn. Ours will be the best of all.
Sign Up Now.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate, on behalf of the Americans who have contributed in an excellent teamwork manner to bring you the Medicare for All website and the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign.

6 Supporters in U.S. Senate

Five U.S. Senators
(and possibly 6)
identified as supporters for
Improved Medicare for All
via single-payer health care.

Challenge. Since no U.S. Senator actively supports and promotes and educates Americans regarding Improved Medicare for All via single-payer health care ... with ONE plan and ONE payer ... and the handful are waiting for some demonstration that there is more "political will", it has taken much time and research to identify the handful of supporters.

Good News About 5.  The good news is that we now have the highest number of supporters ever recorded in the Senate section of the single-payer movement's Support Monitor. 

We need to confirm the 6th.  Note: we will check with Senator Bernie Sanders to confirm that he would vote for a one plan and one payer health-care-for-all system.

How to Get 67 to Establish the Political Will.  To help get the necessary 67 U.S. Senators who will be needed to help ensure that the best law is developed for the best health-care-for-all system, Americans can join the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign.

It's time for the United States to implement the best health-care-for-all system. Other countries implemented theirs between the 1880's and 1980's, giving the U.S. over 100 years to do the same. Now it's our turn. Ours will be the best of all.

Sign Up Now.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate on behalf of the members of the Medicare for All Teams who bring you the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign and the Medicare for All website.

1/11/11 to 11/11/11

1/11/11 to 11/11/11: 10 months of 2011

By 11/11/11 we will be
on quite a "roll" of progress.
It will take some months to start-up one of the biggest citizen actions ever seen in the United States.

Our special investigation team completed its section-by-section analysis of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. The results confirmed what we expected. See the report.

We are going to add even more testimonials between now and 11/11/11. We are adding the testimonials of citizens of other countries, such as the 12/29/2010 testimonial of an Australian asks a simple question of all Americans: Can you do (this) in the States: receive exceptional, extensive care and walk away "not paying one cent"?

But most of all what we're going to do between now and 11/11/11 is to finish the required foundation to launch a robust promotion of the letters campaign.


It's time for the United States to implement a health-care-for-all system. All other free-market countries implemented theirs between the 1880's and 1980's. Their timing gave us 100 years to implement ours, and we still don't have one.

We'll get the ball rolling during 2011 and into 2012. Then the incumbents and their challengers for the November 2012 election will know from the people that they need to not only support but also promote Improved Medicare for All.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate on behalf of the hundreds of Americans who have invested the thousands of hours that got us to this point in history to this major accomplishment for our society.

1-1-11

We hope that you have a Happy New Year. 2011 is a great opportunity for more Americans to learn about Improved Medicare for All. .

1/1/11 A Sign Up Opportunity
help get Peace of Mind

We already had testimonials of Americans living and working in other countries. Starting now we are adding the testimonials of citizens of other countries. It is time for Americans to get the peace of mind that those citizens have. See the 12/29/2010 testimonial of an Australian who does not "understand why people in the States seem so frightened by (a health-care-for-all system) and why there are so many scare stories going around that you can't get treatment when you get sick." She goes on to write about an experience she had this year when she received extensive care. "The care has been exceptional and I've walked away not paying one cent."

Know the Difference

Know the difference between what we have today and Improved Medicare for All.
Click here to see what will be our "before" and "after" (the complexity and the simplicity).

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate on behalf of the hundreds of Americans who have invested the thousands of hours that got us to this point in history to this major accomplishment for our society.

Scary time: need simplicity

We hope that you have a Happy Halloween, but all Americans should be scared of what is coming regarding health care: sky-rocketing premiums and out-of-pocket costs plus higher taxes at all levels of government (to pay for expanded government plus the health care costs of employees) ... and school board taxes (to pay for the higher health care costs of employees there).

We need to move
from the Scary (Complexity)
to Peace of Mind (Simplicity)

The final touches are being made on what will be the completion of a four-year development of the foundation of the Million Letters for Health Care campaign. The development started in the first quarter of 2007, and the final set of projects are scheduled to be completed during the first quarter of 2011. When those projects are completed, we will establish the organization of a set of contacts for each of the 435 U.S. Congressional Districts, after which we will promote the Million Letters for Health Care campaign. The four years of gradual preparation, followed by the establishment of the organization, is intended to be well prepared for the possibility of the promotional efforts causing a widespread and rapid activity of Americans informing each other about Improved Medicare for All with the solid information provided at this website.

The campaign will help accomplish the change to simplicity by helping get the support of the U.S. Congress.

In the meantime:
Know the Difference

See the charts. Click here to see what will be our "before" and "after" (the complexity and the simplicity).

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate on behalf of the hundreds of Americans who have invested the thousands of hours that got us to this point in history to this major accomplishment for our society.

3 Steps and New Goal

Three Steps to Success
... and a Goal for Each Phase

Three Steps. See the new home page. It has the three steps that we can each do to make a major contribution to getting Improved Medicare for All.

UPDATE about phases and goals: the plans are being updated. The campaign goals and plans will be communicated when the robust promotion of the letters campaign occurs ... after the final projects are done in 2011.

Who Will Achieve Improved Medicare for All. Success is in OUR hands ... in other words, we all need to be informing other Americans.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob Haiducek, Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate
on behalf of the hundreds of Americans who have invested
the thousands of hours that got us to this point in history
to this major accomplishment for our society.

Forever Grateful

CONTRIBUTIONS and MOTIVATORS
We are forever grateful.

This is a campaign status blog, and here is part of the status ...

One of the continuous aspects of the status of this campaign is the set of contributions that have been made during the three years it's taken to get to this point. There's been help from a whole lot of Americans, including one who lives and works in Japan.

I will be forever grateful for those contributions. It's been quite a team effort.

Another one of the continuous aspects of the status is how I and others are motivated. There are so many reasons that a person could use to quit this cause. One thing that motivates is thoughts of all those hardships which literally never occur in other countries, because individual citizens don't go into medical debt, which is unheard of. They don't have medical bankruptcies, suicides and other varying degrees of horror. Another thing is the receipt of so many messages over time of appreciation of our work and encouragement to keep on going with the efforts.

We who have worked and contributed to this effort will be forever grateful for those contributions.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Six Countries

SIX COUNTRIES

Six countries with 244 years of success at providing high quality health care at a low cost relative to the United States.

GO HERE to see the results of my recent data analysis of the USA compared to the six countries.

Comparisons: bar chart comparisons of:
the USA performance for its 310 million citizens
compared to the average performance of the other six countries for their total of 370 million citizens.

The Countries. The following countries are superstars when it comes to minimizing deaths under age 75 due to preventable diseases, thus having a low rate of amenable mortality:
Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Italy, and Spain.
those countries are at the top out of a list of 19; the USA is at the bottom.

My very best regards,

Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

P.S. About the 244 years of experience:

Australia 36 years, Canada 38 years, France 65 years
Japan 49 years , Italy 32 years, and Spain 24 years.

GO HERE to see the current health care situation in terms of health care outcomes and health care costs.

Fantastic Video

FANTASTIC VIDEO

As the letters campaign grows, there's a chance that the number of views of the video will go from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Click HERE to see the video (or read their comments) of eleven Canadians. In one part they express their laughter about any American trashing the Canadian system, which produces better health and economic outcomes: longer, healthier lives achieved WITHOUT the burden of co-pays or major medical bills and WITH freedoms of medical choices and lifestyle choices not imaginable by many Americans.

SPECIAL NOTE: If you CANNOT play videos on your computer then you CAN read the selected excerpts of what those Canadians say on the video.

EXTRA: Incredible AND Fantastic

What's both incredible and fantastic is the Million Letters for Health Care Campaign. We are about to have "in our hands" an incredible array of promotional materials, starting with an information card, a full-sheet handout, a half-sheet handout, a web page, and window treatment.

And THAT is just the BEGINNING!

Reviewers are hard at work now reviewing and refining these promotional materials.

The answers (the other blog posting of today) and the promotional materials are the last two steps of the development of a solid foundation for the letters campaign.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All,
especially with the major contribution of the
Million Letters for Health Care campaign:
a massive grassroots activity of individual Americans.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
TO STAND UP FOR
SINGLE-PAYER
HEALTH CARE
... the basis for
IMPROVED MEDICARE
FOR ALL

Incredible Resource

INCREDIBLE RESOURCE

The first two reviewers of the expanded Answers web page happened to use the same word to describe it: "Incredible!"

Even more content will be added that provides more answers to more questions. Some of the "answers" are replies to comments that you may hear that are often myths.

The reviewers and all of us hope you agree with their initial reaction of INCREDIBLE. We'd appreciate any feedback that you have about it.

Click here to check out the Answers.