Single Payer is ON the table. Take that Baucus!

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 8:39 PM PDT

2009/07/31 · 20:39

So I spent the morning making calls and continued making calls while watching the House Energy & Commerce Committee Health Care Markup meeting on CSpan2 - waiting and waiting for this moment... around 2:30 when Rep Anthony Weiner introduced his Single Payer Amendment:

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SarahLee

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Monday May 18, 2009 · 7:47 AM PDT

2009/05/18 · 07:47

Details about the National Day of action below, but first....

Today, Monday May 18th the Diane Rehm show will focus on Single Payer.

Proponents of a single-payer plan argue it is the best solution for the nation’s health-care system. But chances of such a program making it into law appear remote. How a single-payer plan might work and why it faces an uphill battle in Congress.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Dr. David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program (PNHP) are among the guests.

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Read, Rec and act on slinkerwink's diary, "Please Call Today To Support The Public Option!

Now follow me below the fold for info about the May 30th Action

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I am taking Action for Single Payer

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I am taking Action for Single Payer

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I am taking action for a Public Option

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ACTION ALERT: Single Payer Actions - Lobbying, Demonstrations and More

SarahLee

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Tuesday May 12, 2009 · 12:10 PM PDT

2009/05/12 · 12:10

Below the fold you will find a long list of actions and groups to support Single Payer Health Care. If I left anything out, I hope readers will add information in the comments.

But first - for those who believe that single payer is off the table so we should move on to supporting the best public option, I urge you to still support the call for single payer as the grassroots option for getting the best public option possible.

Anyone who has negotiated contracts will tell you that you go in knowing you have to ask for more than you pragmatically know you will get. If you start from a compromise position, then you already lost ground you cannot recover. I have not negotiated contracts, but did participate in negotiations for legal settlements for over 20 years, and I know the principle held there as well.

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I will take some action for Single PayerYes

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I will take some action for Single PayerYes

Yes

63 votes

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Action Alert: National Call-In Day for Single-Payer Healthcare

SarahLee

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Thursday February 12, 2009 · 1:23 PM PST

2009/02/12 · 13:23

Celebrate Lincoln's birthday by supporting single-payer healthcare.

Thursday, February 12th is the third National Call-In Day to support real universal national health care, single-payer healthcare, HR 676!

Call Congress and the White House. Every call counts!

If you don't know your Representative, or want a script, all of the information you need for a successful call is here on HealthCare-Now's National Call-In Day page.

If you know your Representative, the Capitol Switchboard number is 866-338-1015.

Ask to be connected to your Representative, and then ask him or her to co-sponsor HR 676.

The White House number is: 202-456-1414.

Please fill out the form on HealthCare-Now's Call-In Day page to let us know who you called.

Learn more about single payer and HR-676 here, and wonk yourself out on it here.

SarahLee

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Friday January 30, 2009 · 6:25 AM PST

2009/01/30 · 06:25

First:

Listen to the Thom Hartmann Show on today. During the first hour, Thom will talk with Senator Bernie Sanders, who was a cosponsor of H.R. 676 when he was in the House. During the second and third hours, Thom will talk about how we can get single payer through Congress. And he'll ask everyone to do two things on Friday:

Call Congressman James Clyburn and ask him to whip his colleagues for H.R. 676: (202) 225-3315.

Call your own Congress Member and ask them to cosponsor and promote H.R. 676: (202) 224-3121.

You can also help by signing the Healthcare Not Warfare petition.

Hat tip and thanks to David Swanson for his diary on this last night - if you have not read it, please do so. There is some good, current info you will want to know in there.

More info below.

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I will...

Call my Representative

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Call previous Cosponsors of the bill to ask them to Cosponsor again

3 votes

Write a letter to the editor

8 votes

Post something on another blog or forum

4 votes

Canvass my neighbors to get their support

4 votes

Bribe friends and family to write a letter or make a call

3 votes

All of the above

20 votes

Some of the above

59 votes

Something else

4 votes

Nothing

6 votes

Eat Pie

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Dennis Kucinich: "Wake Up America!" Updated again

SarahLee

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 4:01 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 16:01

There have been cries for Democrats at the Convention to start barking about what Republican Rule has done to this country.

Well, Congressman Dennis Kucinich was just on the stage and boy was he hitting it out of the ballpark.

Updated with Video:

Rate it up at YouTube Was waiting for the copy on his site to link, but still isn't up. So many thanks to NCDem Amy for providing it below.

SarahLee

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Wednesday August 06, 2008 · 1:51 PM PDT

2008/08/06 · 13:51

Crossposted from Native American Netroots.

Currently, Native American tribes aren’t eligible for the federal production tax credit available to non-tribal project owners under law.

Without this 2 cents per kWh tax credit, it is much harder for wind farms to get built on reservations.

Action Info Below

SarahLee

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 8:51 PM PDT

2008/07/25 · 20:51

Just posted by Reuters at 10:30pm EDT

Banks are: First National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank NA of California. These two banks were sold to Mutual of Omaha Bank.

Updated with Link - knew I would forget something.
http://www.reuters.com/...

More below

SarahLee

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Sunday May 04, 2008 · 10:44 AM PDT

2008/05/04 · 10:44

iampunha already did a wonderful diary on this heartbreaking anniversary, but it has slipped from the front page and I don't see another. I simply cannot allow this to be in a progressive community.

So I am posting a diary to ask that you go back and read and recommend that wonderful diary. Since it is too late to get that one back up and on the Rec list, I will ask you to recommend this one, just so the day does not pass without our acknowledgment of this piece of our history.

SarahLee

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Friday March 07, 2008 · 10:00 AM PST

2008/03/07 · 10:00

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) is launching a national "Healthcare Not Warfare" campaign to move ahead with a grassroots opportunity to turn from warfare to healthcare for all.

Details below.

SarahLee

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Tuesday December 18, 2007 · 5:43 PM PST

2007/12/18 · 17:43

No open thread since the one at 1:00 central time and no doubt there are others like myself with wee bits of news that want some place to share - put them. Since I have a huge surplus of unused diaries I figured I could volunteer one of mine.

Chat away and share the mojo.

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It was past time for a new Open Thread

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It was past time for a new Open Thread

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Pooties

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Pie

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Conyers: Get me 3 more and I will start Impeachment Proceedings

SarahLee

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Monday July 23, 2007 · 7:47 AM PDT

2007/07/23 · 07:47

Call Congress Today for Impeachment

Just in from AfterDowningStreet's "Impeach Cheney Now!"

We've reached the impeachment moment for Vice President Dick Cheney. We've pushed the cosponsor list for H. Res. 333 up to 14. Chairman John Conyers says that if we get 3 more he'll begin the impeachment proceedings.

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