Single-Payer day of action

It started (as near as I can tell) from a post at CorrenteWire, Pelosi aide begs for our faxes on single payer — send a fax for FREE right now linking to a site that makes it easy to send Nancy Pelosi (and other Congressional leaders) a FAX supporting Single-Payer health care:

My local single payer activist passes along the following:

It appears that Congressional leaders are being deliberately dismissive of single-payer to the point of ludicrous statements. It’s like they have put their fingers in their ears and are yelling “I can’t hear you, I can’t hear you.” Here they are in all their Congressional member glory:

Baucus a few days ago: “Everything BUT single payer is on the table. Single payer is off the table.”

Pelosi: “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.”

Pelosi’s aide: “Where are the phone calls, e-mails and faxes in support of single-payer? Speaker Pelosi has been in favor of single-payer for a long time. Now make us do it.”

OK. We are up to the challenge. He wants to see the faxes. Let’s break their damn fax machines with the faxes.

And the challenge has been effective…. This morning’s update from 1Payer.Net is thrilling — The FAX machines were so swamped they actually shut down for some period of time!

But, here’s the truly genius idea – the Action Plan doesn’t stop with just one FAX message.  1Payer.NET has composed several messages so we can keep up the pressure sending multiple FAXes:

WIPEOUT!! WE DID IT!!
Keep up the pressure. Don’t stop now. Let them know what it feels like to be covered in red tape and paper. Let them know what happens when they ignore the voice of the American people. In the words of Cesar Chavez, stolen from him by the current occupant, ‘SI SE PUEDE.’

If you have sent the Pelosi fax already once or twice, then send the “I want Medicare for All Now” fax.

If you have sent the Pelosi fax and the I Want Medicare fax, then send the Stop Obstructing Health Reform fax.

If you have sent all of these faxes, then invite your friends to send faxes too.  Upload your address book here or just forward this email.  Everybody In, Nobody Out when it comes to blowing out Washington fax machines.

There is a place on the form to add your own personal message — to speak from your heart about what the Health Care crisis means to you and how it affects your family.

Please join CorrenteWire, CannonFire, and The Confluence as we make it clear to our Congressional leaders that we want Single-Payer health care to be discussed “at the table”.  Send your FAXes Now!

[UPDATE: For an explanation of the term "Single-Payer" see this article, "Single-Payer National Health Insurance" at Physicians for a National Health Program (which is a leading advocate of the Single-Payer solution)]

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