**ALERT: NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HEALTH CARE

[biopowertoday]

**ALERT: NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY FOR HEALTH CARE


Lets make a difference. Please call in and pass this around to all blogs.
And email and call your friends and relatives.
It is past time for Congress to move on this.



Action Alert: Today is a National Call-In Day


http://www.healthcare-now.org/2009/02/action-alert-today-is-a-national-call-in-day/


***clickable stories at LINK*

February 12, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
Filed under Call-In, Campaign News, HCN News

The Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Healthcare is encouraging everyone to participate in the next National Call-in Day for HR 676.

February 12, 2009: Call Congress, and the President Congressional switchboard: 202-225-3121 (ask for your representative’s office).

If your member is a current co-sponsor, thank your rep. and ask him or her to stand firm for HR 676 and actively seek additional co-sponsors.

If your member was a co-sponsor in the last Congress, ask him or her to sign on immediately as a co-sponsor in this Congress.

If your member has yet to co-sponsor HR 676, ask him or her to please become a co-sponsor, select one or two talking points here.

Urge your member to accept testimony from panelists to explore the serious flaws in the Massachusetts health plan and examine why it cannot serve as a national model for providing universal and comprehensive care, on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 2:00pm-4:00pm, 2226 Rayburn House Office Building.

For a script and more information, see our National Call-In page.
Tags: Healthcare, HR 676, Single-Payer, universal healthcare

*** ALSO SEE THIS VALUABLE LINK FOR INFORMATION**

**EDIT to add the link
http://pnhp.org/campaign/materials_and_resources/


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[biopowertoday]

1. edited to add the last link.

[biopowertoday]

2. self bump.

[biopowertoday]

3. Talk to Me Like I'm 4: Why

good related article.


Talk to Me Like I'm 4: Why Our Health Care System Failed Us and How We Can Fix It


By J. Goodrich, AlterNet
Posted on February 12, 2009, Printed on February 12, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/126138/

If you could meet a genie in a bottle, free it and receive three wishes about the American health care system as your reward, what would those wishes be?

For most experts, they would be high quality, low costs and universal access: The best medical care possible with the least amount of money to the largest number of people. That, indeed, would be lovely.


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Those plans can be summarized as mostly pro-market or mostly pro-government: Either encourage more competition in the health care markets or supervise and regulate those markets more stringently. It helps to think of such plans as falling somewhere along a straight line where one end-point denotes perfectly unregulated ("free") markets with an almost Wild West flavor, and the other end-point denotes a system of government-owned-and-controlled ("socialized") health care provision. Where should the U.S. system place itself on such a line?

The Obama administration has a chance to make its own recommendations on that placement, although recent rumors hint at nothing much happening during 2009. Obama's campaign Web site tells us, though, that his administration has both pro-market and pro-government plans for fixing the health care system.

Given the new fashion for bipartisanship in politics, and Obama's willingness to compromise with his political opponents, I fear that the conservatives will manage to nibble away at these plans until only the market-based, competition-driven bits remain. This would be a grave mistake, because increasing competition alone will not help us out of our present dilemma of escalating costs and growing numbers of people with no health care coverage......................

[slipslidingaway]

4. Done, thanks for posting...I'm going to post this in GD with a link

to your thread.

Welcome to DU

:)

[biopowertoday]

6. Thank you very much for doing that and

also for the welcome.

This is a very important issue for so many.

best.

[slipslidingaway]

7. YW, although I was hoping to generate a little more interest...

here's the thread in GD.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5038055&mesg_id=5038055

[biopowertoday]

8. thanks for the link. I was hoping people would be interested. I will

yours in GD.

I actally went to look for it earlier but got distracted.

once again, thank you.

[slipslidingaway]

10. YW, I was hoping as well :( n/t

[biopowertoday]

13. I am

very disappointed as we two seem to be the only ones interested in this important topic.



but at least I met up with you:-)

[slipslidingaway]

5. Call today or call tomorrow. n/t

[biopowertoday]

9. Direct phone #s to House reps. thanks to slipslidingaway:-)

I got through, below are the direct phone numbers for House reps

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/mcapdir.html

[slipslidingaway]

11. For the future...

that link is posted in the Congress forum.


Home » Discuss » Topic Forums » Congress

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=308

[biopowertoday]

12. Thanks. I admit

that I have not explored all the forums on DU yet.

You have been very helpful today:-)

[slipslidingaway]

14. Neither have I....

this is a critical issue IMO.

:hi:

[biopowertoday]

15. bump for the evening folks