Will your fax be the one to make Pelosi put single-payer back in play?

[Karmadillo]

This comes by way of Corrente. If you click on the link, you can send a free fax.

http://www.1payer.net/campaigns/efax-pelosi-single-payer-agenda.html

PUT SINGLE PAYER ON THE AGENDA
Dear Ms. Pelosi and Others,

You have stated, "In our caucus, over and over again, we hear single payer, single payer, single payer. Well, it's not going to be a single payer." Your legislative aide, Mr. Bernal, claims that you have long been a single payer advocate but simply need the American people to give you the political backing to enact single payer. He said "Speaker Pelosi has been in favor of single-payer for a long time. . . . Now make us do it." Mr. Bernal asked "Where are the meetings with Sen. Baucus and other key . . . members? Where are the phone calls, e-mails and faxes in support of single-payer?" Let me address these points seriatim.

First, if you are a single payer advocate as Mr. Bernal says you are, then why do you not have the courage to stand up and say so? Why are you so vehemently ruling out single payer health care when 59% of American people and 59% of American doctors want it, according to a February 2009 CBS/NYT poll. Are you afraid of being Harry-and-Louised? Why not look at what will happen if you don’t stand up? You will be ‘Miked.” Take a look at the Mike Farrell videos at http://www.1payer.net/videos/medicare-for-all.html

Second, you know very well where the meetings with Sen. Baucus and other "key" members are. They never happened because Sen. Baucus, like you, has ruled out single payer from the very beginning. He refuses to meet with single payer advocates. He refuses to put single payer on the agenda for discussion.

Third, your aide asked, "Where are the faxes?" The faxes and calls and emails have been coming to you but you and your colleagues have been ignoring them. You are comfortable with your Federal Health Plan while we have to suffer. We will no longer suffer in silence. You may have decided to stick your fingers in your ears and sing “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you” again and again, but I wager you will hear us loud and clear in the next election if you disappoint us now on health care.

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[Captain Hilts]

1. President Obama needs to receive some faxes on this also. nt

[Fireweed247]

3. yes!

ALL of them all the way to the top :applause:

[Fireweed247]

2. Thank you!

Here is another place where you can send a free fax to all of your 'representatives'

www.faxzero.com

Just thinking about this swine flu, how many already poor people without insurance will go to the hospital our of fear, put the charges on their credit card at 30% interest....

[Catch22Dem]

4. Fax? Is this retro night?

Am I walking into some joke I don't know about or what?

[RC]

5. e-mails get totally swamped out with their shear numbers.

To contact them with a chance of it actually being read, use hard copy and a stamp. It takes a little more effort and they realize that.

[Jkid]

6. About sending them letters to Congress via snail mail.

I thought sending them via snail mail would involve waiting about 4 weeks because each mail has to be scanned for foreign material? (such as anthrax).

[Earth_First]

7. Gladly! K&R

[Earth_First]

8. Gladly! K&R