Last Call For Weiner (Medicare 4 All) & Kucinich (State's Choice) HCR Amendments. Vote may be today! Call your Rep today!

 

From PDA

Progressive Democrats of America:

The Weiner and Kucinich Amendments

We need you to act now!

The vote in the House on healthcare reform is imminent.

Through our Healthcare NOT Warfare campaign, PDAers 

have sent emails and faxes, signed petitions, and made 

phone calls and office visits to our members of Congress. 

We’ve had lobby days on the Hill, protests in the streets, 

and forums in cities and towns across the country. 

PDA has never wavered in our support of single-payer

healthcare—and we never will. 

Call you representative—today!

The powers-that-be took single-payer off the table,  

but our diligent persistence helped keep it alive. 

This week, perhaps as early as today (Tuesday, October 13),  

the House will vote for the first time in history on the  

Weiner amendment --Medicare for All!  

This is a victory worth celebrating.

Our friend Dennis Kucinich successfully added an 

amendment to allow states the right to create their own 

single-payer healthcare systems.  

The Kucinich amendment must be retained in the final 

legislation so states can more easily implement single-payer 

systems.

Our job now is to let our representatives know that there is 

still great support for Medicare for All and to encourage them to vote to support the Weiner and Kucinich amendments.

Take action here.

Unfortunately, it is unlikely the Weiner amendment will pass

in this Congress, and it will be difficult to retain the Kucinich 

amendment as well.

Don’t be discouraged—we have a Plan B! Canada created their national health system province by province. We can do the same here—state by state.

Pennsylvania may become the first state to do so. There’s a 

bi-partisan bill working it’s way through the legislature right 

now, and PDA is already working to help pass it. Join us 

(if you can) for the Healthcare4allPA Rally in the Harrisburg 

capital rotunda on October 20.

When Governor Rendell signs the Pennsylvania single-payer 

bill, they will have created a model for other states to follow.

If this Congress passes “health insurance reform,” it will be 

only a matter of several years before they’re back at the 

drawing table. 

During those years, we have excellent opportunities to

help pass single-payer legislation in Pennsylvania,

California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio. That will

certainly change the debate.

After all of our hard work, it is easy to become discouraged, 

even despondent, over the current reform.  

Now is not the time to give up—call your representative today and prepare to win single-payer healthcare in the states.

It’s only a matter of time until our elected officials admit what we already know—Medicare for All is the best and only solution to what ails our American healthcare system.

In solidarity,

Tim Carpenter

P.S. Medicare for All supporters across the country have 

been sitting-in at healthcare industry corporate offices. 

PDA’s own Lorin Klugman and Jim Rhodes were arrested 

at Cigna in Chicago earlier this week—check it out.