Improved Monitoring

On behalf of our very small team of volunteers I announce the following new features of the Single-Payer Support Monitor ...

• New chart!
  
• New set of graphs!
• Highlighting of supporters
• Highlighted in bold and dark green
• Supporters get attention at this web site!
• Now --- incumbents, the people currently in office
• Future --- all candidates for office who are supporters and submit their support
  
• Current example of highlighting: When we get a page of addresses during Step 2 at Write!.
  

In addition, local addresses of U.S. Representatives, U.S. Delegates and U.S. Senators are now available, also as part of Step 2 at Write!.

Let the campaign now begin during the 4th quarter of 2007!
Letters start going out during the second week of October!

A firestorm of letter-writing activity across the country is now needed. Such a firestorm is totally reliant on you as individuals and groups to take action. For more of a description about this point, click here.

-- Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

Start-Up Notes

Site is "Live": Planned technical changes have been completed.

Loading of some remaining details will continue during September and into October. Examples include the loading of lists of local addresses. Also, I will obtain additional information on more of the single-payer supporters among U.S. Representatives and U.S. Senators so that they can be documented for the Single-Payer Support Monitor.

Good Health for All

Nine-Oh-Nine! is starting this month --- and today is exactly two years before 9-9-09! It's an opportunity to look forward to not only Health Care for All but also Good Health for All.

Here is a health challenge for you for the period of 9-7-09 to 9-9-09.

If you should lose weight and gain strength, then do it ...
with a medical professional's guidance.

When you read Dr. Bob LeBow's book Health Care Meltdown, you will see his view that Health Care for All "is only the first step towards a larger goal: good health for all." See page 250.

In the spirit of good health I am committed to getting back to a good body weight and a good level of strength.

I encourage you to make a similar commitment: with a medical professional's guidance, please get to a good weight and good level of strength for optimal health, if you recognize a need in either one of these areas. For myself I find that doing a minimum of 1.5 miles or 30 minutes, whichever comes first, is a good "bare minimum" amount of activity every day.

--- Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate

History of the Campaign

First Quarter 2007. After participating in the Health Care for All movement for three years, I conceived the Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! Campaign for Single-Payer National Health Insurance in the first quarter of 2007 and started developing its content.

Second Quarter 2007. A volunteer web developer and I did design and construction of the associated web site during the second quarter of 2007 and contacted national single-payer organizations. I hand-delivered a request for single-payer support, on behalf of the Nine-Nine-Oh-Nine! campaign, to the Washington, D. C., offices of each U.S. Representative and each U.S. Senator in mid-June.

Third Quarter 2007. Now, during the third quarter the web developer is finishing technical details to be done by the end of the 3rd quarter. In parallel I am refining the content as a result of feedback from several people from around the country. We look forward to starting more communications about the campaign during the 4th quarter --- with an initial, small start of the massive letter-writing campaign on December 9.

Take care of yourself!

Bob Haiducek
Bob the Health and Health Care Advocate; Midland, Michigan
Member, Physicians for a National Health Program
Member, Healthcare-Now!