As the vote on health care reform works its way through Congress, the insurance industry is doing its best to weaken already too weak bills. In fact, the bills Congress is considering will give the insurance industry hundreds of billions in new annual revenue by forcing Americans to buy their overpriced insurance. But, even with this massive giveaway the insurance industry is twisting the screws to squeeze every bit of profit out of "reform," consistently putting profits before patients.
Prosperity Agenda has been urging a different approach, the most popular reform among Americans, a single payer national health care system - improved Medicare for all. We've protested in Congress, written letters, emails, faxes and called. We are not giving up. Our Mobilization for Health Care is going national in two days and is already catching fire.
When we launched the campaign we sought 100 people willing to risk arrest in protests of the insurance industry, already 700 have signed up. We hoped for 3 to 4 cities by this stage, now "Patients Not Profit" sit-ins will be happening in at least 9 cities across the country this Thursday! There is a hunger in America for a vision like this. The incredible response of people has left no doubt - people want to end insurance company abuse. Click here for the list of cities where mobilizations will occur on Thursday, and there will be even more on the next day of action, October 28th (coincidentally, my birthday!). If you have not signed up to participate, please visit
www.MobilizeForHealthCare.org and do so now.
The Congressional leadership took single payer off the table, but we pushed and now we have two important single payer votes before the full House of Representatives. First, this week Rep. Anthony Weiner will be introducing an amendment on the House Floor to replace the current bill with a single payer system. Second, Rep. Dennis Kucinich's amendment, making it easier for state's to pass single payer, will also be voted on in the House. Please
click here to write your representative to urge support for both these amendments and urge the House to not force people to buy overpriced insurance.
We do not expect the Weiner Amendment to pass - there have been no hearings and little public discussion - but it is important that this vote receive as high a vote total as possible. Similarly, the Kucinich Amendment faces a challenge to pass with the insurance corporations working hard to defeat it. But, both of these historic, first-ever votes on single payer health care give us a chance to see who our allies in Congress are and who are our opponents. Push now.
Contact your representative to support these amendments and oppose the requirement forcing Americans to buy overpriced private insurance.
Congress has demonstrated that the multi-payer, private health system cannot work. The plans pushed by President Obama and the congressional leadership will leave tens of millions without health care and not control costs. In fact, the insurance industry issued a report this week that said insurance costs will rise by 111% by 2019 under the reform bill to $25,900 for the average family and $9,700 for the average individual.
Since Congress failed to solve America's health problem, we are also working at the state level. Several states are near passage of single payer systems. When Canada created its national health system it first passed in one province. After it worked there it became national policy. There's a bi-partisan bill working its way through the Pennsylvania legislature right now, and Prosperity Agenda is already working to help pass it. Join me on October 20 in Pennsylvania's capitol rotunda in Harrisburg for the Healthcare4allPA Rally. We're urging everyone in surrounding states to attend so Pennsylvania can create a model for the rest of the country to follow.
Other states - California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio - are also close to passage of a single payer system that rids the nation of the scourge of private insurance.
This year has seen tremendous growth in the vitality of the Medicare for All movement. On October 15th the Mobilization for Health Care will demonstrate a new political force in the American landscape - Americans fed up with the real death panels, the insurance industry who are seeking to end their abuse once and for all. Join us in seeking a health care system that guarantees the right to health care for all. The status quo cannot continue, and current reform proposals simply will not solve the problem.
Sign up to join us on the national days of action this Thursday and on October 28th.Thank you to all who have donated so far - we could not do this without you! If you can make a donation to help build this campaign, please donate now.
Sincerely,
Kevin Zeese
Executive Director
Prosperity Agenda
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