[GPCA Updates] Help Make Single-Payer a Reality

[Green Party of California Updates]

   You Can Help Make Single-Payer Health Care a Reality

What's wrong with the health care reform plans supported by President
Obama and Democratic leaders?  The only winners under these plans are
the insurance companies, HMOs, and drug manufacturers.  Democrats want
Americans to spend billions of dollars extra every year for health care,
rather than just eliminate the bureaucracy, paperwork, waste, and high
CEO salaries of for-profit insurance.  The Democrats' proposed 'mandate'
would mean massive taxpayer subsidies for the insurance industry.  The
'public option' won't reduce health care costs, and would only cover 10
million people out of the 50 million without insurance.  President Obama
and the Democrats have already caved in to drug industry pressure on
re-importing Canadian drugs, on negotiating for lower drug prices, and
on generics.

WE DEMAND universal health care under the SINGLE-PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH
CARE PLAN (HR 676)!

WE DEMAND that single-payer be placed on the table in the health care
reform debate.  (Senator Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance
Committee, says that single-payer is "off the table.")

WE DEMAND that Democrats, Republicans, and the media stop telling lies
about single-payer universal health care.  (Single-payer is NOT
"socialized medicine"!)

WE DEMAND a televised national debate between advocates and opponents of
single-payer, so Americans can hear the truth about universal health care.

WE DEMAND new studies by the GAO and Congressional Budget Office on the
cost of single-payer.  In the 1990s, analyses by these offices showed
that single-payer would save billions of dollars in health care expenses.

For more information on Single-Payer go to the Physicians for a National
Health Program
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J2W16Hx4Wi1kj7hti2i6SvqQKREGzrMb>
website.

/*_How can you help?_*/ Send a letter to the editor of your newspaper.
Below is a sample for you to use as a guideline.  Remember - it is best
to keep letters as brief as possible.

Dear Editor:

What do the Democrats holding town hall meetings and the mobs trying to
disrupt the meetings have in common?  No matter which side wins,
millions of Americans will still go without coverage, hundreds of
thousands will go into financial ruin over health care costs, and
insurance CEOs will laugh their way to the bank.  Don't be fooled by the
Obamacare plan for 'mandates' and promises of a 'public option', which
mean continued skyrocketing health care costs and huge taxpayer-funded
subsidies to insurance companies.

The only real solution to the health care crisis is the single-payer
plan, which covers every American regardless of income, age, or prior
medical condition.  Under single-payer, physicians and patients make
decisions about medical care, not government or corporate bureaucracies,
and everyone can choose his or her own health care provider.  As GAO and
Congressional Budget Office studies have shown in the past, single-payer
will save billions in health care spending, because it eliminates the
administrative costs, waste, and high CEO salaries of for-profit health
insurance.

Single-payer could be Congress's gift to working people and businesses
alike.  Single-payer will boost the economy by relieving businesses
large and small of the costly burden of providing health benefits.

Whether the Obama/Dem plan passes or Republicans get their way and no
health care reform is passed, health insurance companies will win and
the American people will lose.  The health of the American people is
more important than corporate profits.  Let's make health care a right
for everyone and pass HR 676, the single-payer bill.

If your letter is published, please send a link or copy to gpinfo at gp.org.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Help us keep the vision of single-payer health care alive.   Donate
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nql44Zrrpbw%2B9UP1Sh7lyPqQKREGzrMb>what

you can to strengthen our voice so that we can make our vision a
reality.  If you have given recently, please consider giving more.  And,
if you haven't given in some time, please consider making today the day
you give.

If you can only afford a little each month, you can become a monthly
sustainer
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lnzyWvZi0d%2BstTcS9WNKiPqQKREGzrMb>

so your donation can be spread over time.  Help us reach our goal of 500
monthly sustainers by 2010.

Click here
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Gxnz0m154Z6t5FzeyoaZRvqQKREGzrMb>

to help make our voice stronger with your contribution or monthly
donation. Our accountability to future generations depends upon what we
do today.

Donate to GP Fund
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=55BG8lKL9dtDPbKz2VBvlPqQKREGzrMb>

/The Green Party takes no money from real estate companies, investment
firms, or insurance companies. In fact, we don't take any corporate
money because we think corporate money in politics is wrong. If you
agree, please help us today. Your donation to the Green Party will help
make sure we have a strong Green party today and into the future./

Email: gpinfo at gp.org

unsubscribe
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5DhtGhnrjM11rJu4PGQo4%2FqQKREGzrMb>

Office: PO Box 57065 Washington, D.C. 20037 202-319-7191 or toll-free
(US): 866-41GREEN

*/We are not the alternative - we are the imperative. Rosa Clemente/*