Time for Universal Healthcare
May 1, 2023
Happy Monday Healthcare Advocates
I’m very thankful for your advocacy for healthcare reform. If there are subjects you’d like to have researched, please send me a note using the comment box at the end of the newsletter.
Good News on May 16th
On May 16th representative Jayapal and Senator Sanders will both present companion Universal Healthcare bills in Congress. It is about time our country took this important step and joined the 35 other industrialized countries with Universal Healthcare. We can make this happen. Take the action below.
Here is the Action
RESISTBOT - learn about it in the resources below
USE RESISTBOT to Text Your Senators and Congressperson and the White House the message below. Use your cell phone messaging app to Text SIGN PZDQVS to 50409 to send this.
On May 16th Representative Pramila Jayapal and Senator Bernie Sanders will be releasing their companion Universal Single Payer Healthcare bills to Congress. I am your constituent and I want you to know I have had enough of the current healthcare system. I am tired of unneeded medical bankruptcies, health care options determined by 900 separate private insurance companies that pick and choose what they think is medically necessary instead of my doctor and over 400 separate bills in each Congress that are all band aids trying to fix little bits of the healthcare system.
We are a major industrialized power in the world and choose to not protect our citizen’s health. Each of our 35 industrialized peer nations has recognized the need to have a healthy population with universal healthcare except us.
Remember every nation’s life expectancy declined during the pandemic, but only our life expectancy continues to decline, theirs are on the rise.
I can go on and on about higher rates of infant mortality, maternal mortality, huge numbers of deaths that are amenable to treatment but people can’t get treatment because they have no insurance or are underinsured.
YOU CAN FIX FIX THIS.
I want you to be an active cosponsor of those bills now.
Resources
Find My Elected Officials
Contact the White House https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Contact State and Federal Representatives
https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/change-your-address
Important Healthcare Resources
League of Women Voters Healthcare Reform Toolkit
Our Newsletter resources including reproductive healthcare Healthcare Advocacy Reading List
Organizations to Contact
Physicians for a National Health Plan
Claims Denials and Appeals & What to Do
Appeal a Healthcare Decision
Appeal/Negotiate a Hospital Bill
Save Democracy
Chop Wood, Carry Water by Jessica Cravens
RESISTBOT
Link to the RESISTBOT site to learn more
Link to Chop Wood, Carry Water Resistbot write up