Please KICK this and ADD your links/comments to LOBBY Congress for National Public Health Care NOW.

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"... a life and death issue, like the Fire Department, like the Police Department" -- Michael Moore

Medicare For All. Whatever we call it, we need the PROFIT OUT OF THIS HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.

We demand that EVERYONE be covered.

We further demand that CONGRESS LOSE THEIR PUBLICLY SUBSIDIZED HEALTH CARE BENEFITS UNTIL the PUBLIC HAS HEALTH CARE.

Thank you.

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"It's the first word in our founding document. WE the People, not ME the People.

"And this will only work when we realize that we have to operate from the We, that we're all in the same boat, that we sink or swim together. And when we have companies, pharmaceutical companies, the greed that's involved here ....

"These companies need to be regulated like a public utility. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with what they get away with.

"Sickness doesn't know Democrat or Republican. It's not a political issue, it shouldn't be made a partisan issue. We should find common ground across the political spectrum." -- Michael Moore

Michael Moore: How "Sicko" Got Its Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stX520pu5qo
"... a life and death issue, like the Fire Department, like the Police Department"

Tony Benn from SICKO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HyK5rB9jY
"...If you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people..."

SICKO Goes to Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9p4WODXM8Q
"We must take the profit out of this health care industry. Health care should not be big business." -- Barbara Lee

SICKO: Film Will Make Health Care Execs "Run for the Hills"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OoWg0Wxn4
"The only way they can provide those profits is to deny care..."

Elizabeth Kucinich talks about Universal Health Care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ag1WsN2_mU
"We know insurance companies make money NOT providing health care."

[Mythsaje]

1. We can talk all we want...

but if something isn't DONE... We're screwed.

[robinlynne]

2. count me in. HR676!

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3. good links here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5644147

I'd also like to thank Michael Moore.

And thank Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, Barbara Lee, Barbara Boxer, Russ Feingold, John Conyers, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, Ray McGovern, Cindy Sheehan, Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich (I'm sorry I don't know her last name if otherwise), DU's own Symbolman, the Congressional Black Caucus and other brave souls who have stood up for the American people when it counted and when no one -- including those foresworn to do to -- when no one else would.

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4. So, when do we march on Washington?

Online petitions and phone calls to Congress just aren't cutting it. And if you belong to an AFL-CIO union, tell the highest official you can reach that simply because Obama cut a deal with the SEIU's head, Andy Stern, not to back single-payer, doesn't mean the AFL-CIO unions need to keep silent on it as well. They've already been shut out of the loop--Stern's been invited to the White House for consultation a dozen times already and gotten his person in as Labor Sec'y, while the AFL-CIO officials were asked once for a signing ceremony. They have nothing left to lose with this President and by continuing to beg around his ankles like a whipped dog, they only further lose his respect. The industries the AFL-CIO have organized desperately need single-payer (witness the demise of Chrysler) to compete w/ those of the other industialized nations that already have a national health care system, not to mention the unions' membership. Unfortunately the AFL-CIO's main office in D.C. doesn't take calls from the public, and they don't answer feedback put on the online form on their political action page. So call the head of your local or whole union if you can find a good phone number, encourage your coworkers to do likewise, and let's swell a march on Washington for single-payer w/ union members!

[winyanstaz]

6. K & R .........People need a date and time......

and why just march on Washington? What about your senators office in your state or the county courthouse if you can't make it to Washington?

[clear eye]

8. Nothing wrong w/ local actions, but

there is no impact like a million people overflowing the National Mall. It means something when so many people are moved to disrupt their lives, find carpool buddies or pay hard-earned cash for a bus, and endure the discomfort of a long ride and many hours of standing and walking and holding placards, to send a message. Lately it might even mean braving the danger of getting shoved around en masse by hostile police, or for reporters, even worse. People with video cameras sometimes become targets. But generally these largest national protests are mostly peaceful for those who don't stray from the pre-approved activities.

The only thing more effective would be a two or three day National Strike. The U.S. is not extensively unionized, and fear of economic retaliation has kept us from engaging in those. I haven't even heard of one in France in the past 5 years, but they used to be common there.

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5. K&R

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