[GPCA Updates] GREEN PARTY ACTION: Bring Medicare for All Back to the Table

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      ***ACTION ALERT for Single Payer***


  *Write Your Representative Today!*

It's time to take action for SINGLE-PAYER NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!

The media are focusing on the debate between Democrats promoting Obamacare
and 'Tea Party' activists who are determined to block any health care 
reform at all.  Whether Obamacare gets passed in Congress or Republicans 
succeed in defeating reform legislation, the for-profit health insurance 
companies will win and the rest of us will lose.

These are the worst economic times since the Great Depression and we 
need healthcare that is cost-effective for ALL.  Single-Payer will 
reduce health care costs by as much as a third and reduce 'rationing' -- 
no more for-profit insurance company overhead, administrative costs, and 
skyrocketing CEO salaries.  Single-Payer will allow everyone to choose 
their physicians and hospitals, and no American will ever again face 
financial ruin over an illness or injury.

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Tell your legislators that Single Payer makes economic sense and 
business sense.   Here are simple talking points you can use in messages 
to your congresspersons.

    * Single-payer will boost the ailing US economy and provide relief
      for businesses large and small, because it will cancel the high
      expense and administrative burden of employer-based health care.
    * At 3% administrative costs, Medicare (which would become universal
      under single payer) is very efficient compared to the 15-30%
      administrative costs of for-profit insurance.
    * Single-payer will relieve cities, towns and school boards from
      having to bear the cost of providing health insurance to
      employees, allowing responsible officials to reduce their budgets
      and lower local property taxes.
    * Single-payer gives government and citizens a stake in preventive
      medicine and promotion of good health habits to keep costs down.

Don't let Democratic and Republican politicians destroy hope for real 
health care reform.  Don't be fooled: Obamacare won't provide health 
care for all Americans.  It will drive up heatlh care costs and impose 
'mandates' that result in multi-million-dollar taxpayer-funded subsidies 
to insurance companies.  Obamacare is not the solution.  The only real 
solution to America's health care crisis is Single-Payer.  Please write 
your representative 
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and tell them we need Medicare for All.

More information:
http://www.gp.org
http://www.healthcare-now.org
http://www.pnhp.org
http://www.singlepayeraction.org/

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stands firmly for a Single Payer Health Care System, and for health care 
as a right as the most practical way to ensure our nation's health 
security.  Your gift of any amount will strengthen the Green Party's 
voice for Single Payer.

Sustainers are our base of support, enabling us to count upon a base 
level of income each month to pay staff, sustain our Washington DC 
office, and support advocacy of issues like Single Payer.  Many people 
find that it is more affordable to spread their donation out monthly.  
During our time together in Durham, we called for an increase in monthly 
sustainers from 250 to 500.  With your help we can meet the $10,000 per 
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