Reply #132: Just MAKE SURE that the KUCINICH AMENDMENT gets added back in...... [View All]

[demodonkey]

Canada's system started in ONE Province. It worked and soon and spread nationwide. That's the best bet for single-payer here in the US, too.

DK's Amendment will allow individual states to proceed forward with their own SINGLE-PAYER systems. With his amendment stripped, insurance companies will use ERISA to sue the states that pass single payer.

If we are ever to have a single-payer system nationwide it will probably come after states start adopting single-payer one-by-one -- IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO.

Please call one or more of these House leaders (especially Hoyer & Pelosi) and ask them to put the Kucinich Amendment back into the Manager's Amendment of the bill (the final version they are bringing to the floor):

Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Washington, DC, office [phone]; San Francisco office [phone]

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: Washington, DC, office [phone]; Greenbelt office [phone]; Waldorf office [phone]

Rep. Henry Waxman: Washington, DC, office [phone]; Los Angeles office [phone]

Rep. Charles Rangel: Washington, DC, office [phone]; New York office [phone]

Rep. George Miller: Washington, DC, office [phone]; Concord office [phone]; Richmond office [phone]; Vallejo office [phone]