Action Alerts
Action Alert: Congress is Headed in the Wrong Direction
It’s time to tell Congress that it’s headed in the wrong direction – proposing to spend over a trillion more dollars to put band aids on a healthcare system that needs major surgery. Everyone in the LCGHC national coalition and its network of millions of Americans have worked hard and made huge strides toward advancing…
Read MoreAmnesty International USA calls on Senate to Consider Single Payer proposals
Amnesty International USA issued the following email alert. To take action, go to the AI-USA online Action Center: Health Care is a Human Right — Urge the Senate to Have a Real Debate on Single Payer We at Amnesty International believe that policymakers have a historic opportunity to reform a broken health care system. During…
Read MoreAction Alert: Why are Single-Payer Supporters so Furious?
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, said, when asked about the “public option,” “Can you say flat out that it’s just never going to be single-payer health insurance?”: “Oh, I think that’s very much the case. And again, if you want anybody to convince people of that, talk to the single-payer proponents who…
Read MoreAction Alert: Ask Your Rep. to Attend Healthcare Financing Briefing
Please ask your Representative to attend this important Congressional Briefing on financing expanded healthcare. If you know your representative, call 866-338-1015 for the Capital Switchboard. If not, visit votesmart.org to find out. Either way, you can easily email them here. How Do We Pay For It? Options for Financing Expanded Health Care Single-Payer or a…
Read MoreAction Alert: Help Get Single-Payer Hearings in Congress
The House will release healthcare legislation very soon, and the draft bill could even come out next week. From there the bill will go to Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, and the Ways and Means committees for debate. We need you to call, fax, or visit four Congresssperson’s offices ASAP to make sure that…
Read MoreAction Alert: Please Call Now for Single-Payer National Healthcare
It’s National Nurses Week, and there are many single-payer festivities in Washington, DC. Help us celebrate the leading role nurses play in the single-payer movement by joining us in Washington DC and/or making a call to get single-payer experts into the Senate Finance Committee Roundtable discussion! This Tuesday, May 12, the Senate Finance Committee is…
Read MoreAction Alert: Make Single-Payer Part of Senate Roundtable Discussions
We need your help getting a single-payer supporter into Senate Finance Committee roundtable discussions on healthcare reform. The Finance Committee (Led by Sen. Max Baucus – MT) is holding three roundtable discussions on healthcare reform in the coming weeks. The first discussion, titled “Reforming America’s Health Care Delivery System,” on April 21st, had thirteen witnesses.…
Read MoreAction Alert: Get Single-Payer into Congressional Hearings
House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) announced that the Committee will hold another hearing in a series on reforming the health insurance market. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22, and will focus on strategies to reform the health insurance market to ensure greater accessibility and affordability.…
Read MoreAction Alert: We’re Not Covered!
Today, the day of the final White House Regional Forum on Health Reform in Los Angeles, protesters will be demonstrating in front of Congressman Charles Rangels office at the State Office Building in Harlem wearing “limited coverage” hospital gowns that expose their backsides. Leading this demonstration is the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a…
Read MoreAction Alert: “National Lessons for Health Reform”
The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, along with Healthcare-NOW!, is preparing for the third Congressional briefing in Washington, DC titled “National Lessons for Health Reform: An Examination of US Health Insurance.” Thanks to the phone calls, faxes, and emails, the last briefing on Feb. 25 had an unprecedented number of healthcare staffers in the…
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