Single Payer Now Phone Tree Callers Needed for SF May Day March

                                 Single Payer Now Phone Tree Callers

Needed to Build Healthcare Contingent

On May Day Workers and Immigrant Rights

March and Rally in SF

 

Dear Healthcare Phone Tree Specialist,

 

We need your help calling our action alert list to build our Healthcare Contingent on May Day in SF.   

Assembly starts at 3pm at 24^th St BART and marches to Civic Center for a 5pm rally.

We will be carrying banners saying Healthcare is a Human Right.

I will send you a suggested script and local names.  We have found calling to be the most effective way to build events.

Please let me know how many names you can call.  Some people take 10 names, some 25, some more.

___ Yes, I can call 10 people.

___ Yes, I can call 25 people.

___ Yes, I can call ____ people

 

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

Fwd: SF March on May Day for Healthcare

March for Immigrant and Worker Rights Healthcare is Human Right May 1, Wed 3pm SF - Assemble 24th St BART on Mission March to Civic Center for 5pm Rally I hope you can march with us in SF on May Day. We will assemble at 24th and Mission at 2:45 and march to Civic Center. We will be carrying banners that say Healthcare is a Human Right Support HR 676 Medicare for All We also will be collecting postcards to expand Medicare. This is especially important as President Obama is proposing to cut Medicare. HR 676 includes healthcare for immigrants while the Affordable Care Act bans immigrants from receiving healthcare. We need help carrying banners and collecting postcards. For every 5 people who can help make a banner, we will make a banner. We encourage you to forward this alert. Please let us know how you can help. ___ I can help carry a banner. ___ I can help collect postcards at 24th St and Mission at 2:45pm. ___ I can help collect postcards at Civic Center at 5pm. ___ I have forwarded this alert. ___ I can help make a financial contribution to defray expenses. To make a contribution, click here. Or you can send a contribution to: Single Payer Now PO Box 460622 San Francisco, CA 94146. I look forward to seeing you on May Day. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 Cell 415-810-5826

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SF,CA--->Tell President Obama to Expand Medicare - Don't Cut Medicare

President Obama Expand Medicare - Don't Cut Medicare Support HR 676 5 to 6:30pm Wed., April 3 in SF Corner of Divisadero & Pacific Ave (#24 Divisadero goes to Jackson which is one block south of Pacific) Please join us on Wednesday, April 3 to tell President Obama that we want national healthcare that delivers healthcare to everyone without the interference of the insurance industry. Obama will be fundraising in SF at a $5000 per person dinner. President Obama is under tremendous pressure to cut Medicare. The March 29 NY Times reported that he is willing to raise the deductibles for Medicare. He needs to hear a strong message that we want healthcare for everyone. Under the best case scenario, the Affordable Care Act still leaves tens of millions of people without healthcare. We want to pass HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. HR 676 would spend resources wisely, whereas the health insurance bureaucracy wastes 31¢ of every health care dollar. HR 676 would deliver healthcare to everyone, while the insurance industry attempts to avoid the sick, deny claims and pass expenses on to others. Please let us know if you can attend, hold a banner, carry a sign, make phone calls or make a contribution for rally materials. ___ Yes, I plan to attend the April 3 rally. ___ Yes, I can hold a banner. ___ Yes, I can make phone calls to help build our rally. We will send you names and a suggested script. ___ Yes, I have forwarded this alert. ___ Yes, I want to make a financial contribution to defray rally expenses. To make a contribution, click here or a contribution can be sent to Single Payer Now PO Box 460622 San Francisco, CA 94146. I hope to see you Wed. April 3 at 5pm. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 Cell 415-810-5826

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SF,CA EVENT->Tell Obama we need Medicare For All - HR 676

Rally for Medicare for All - HR 676 5 to 6:30pm Wednesday, April 3 in San Francisco Tell Obama We Want National Healthcare Minus the Insurance Industry Corner of Divisadero & Pacific Ave Please join us on Wednesday, April 3 to tell President Obama that we want national healthcare that delivers healthcare to everyone without the interference of the insurance industry. Obama will be fundraising in SF at a $5000 per person dinner. President Obama is under tremendous pressure to cut Medicare. He needs to hear a strong message that we want healthcare for everyone. Under the best case scenario, the Affordable Care Act still leaves tens of millions of people without healthcare. We want to pass HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act. HR 676 would spend resources wisely, whereas the health insurance bureaucracy wastes 31¢ of every health care dollar. HR 676 would deliver healthcare to everyone, while the insurance industry attempts to avoid the sick, deny claims and pass expenses on to others. Please let us know if you can attend, hold a banner, carry a sign, make phone calls or make a contribution for rally materials. ___ Yes, I plan to attend the April 3 rally. ___ Yes, I can hold a banner. ___ Yes, I can make phone calls to help build our rally. We will send you names and a suggested script. ___ Yes, I want to make a financial contribution to defray rally expenses. To make a contribution, click here or a contribution can be sent to Single Payer Now PO Box 460622 San Francisco, CA 94146. I hope to see you Wed. April 3 at 5pm. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 Cell 415-810-5826

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CALIF - YOU NEED TO CALL NOW TO RENEW SPYR LEGISLATION!

Urgent Healthcare Alert Call Legislators Today to Encourage Authorship of Single Payer Legislation We need you to make brief, polite phone calls today to encourage an Assemblymember to author and introduce single payer legislation in the Assembly by Friday, February 22nd. If the bill is not introduced in time, there will be no single payer legislation this session, which lasts two years. Background: Senator Mark Leno authored the single payer legislation, SB 810 in the past two sessions (four years) and the bill failed last year by only two votes. At the end of last session, Senator Leno declined to author the bill again and suggested we seek an author in the Assembly. Despite concerted efforts, we have not been successful in finding an Assemblymember to introduce the bill. We are told that the legislature is focused on implementing the private health insurance exchange mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Tell our Assemblymembers they can work on both the implementation of the ACA and the California Universal Healthcare Act. A single payer system cannot be implemented until 2017 - the date the Affordable Care Act allows states to go beyond the ACA and set up their own healthcare systems. We can both implement the health exchange this year and get California ready for single payer in 2017. Calling Tips: Please call the following legislators today and request that they carry the single payer legislation. Ask for the legislative aide listed below. If they are not available, please ask for their voicemail and leave a brief message. If voicemail is unavailable, simply leave your message with the person who answers the phone. *Be sure to mention if you happen to live in the district. List of legislators to call (with the name of their aide): 1. Paul Fong (28, Sunnyvale) - Andrew Medina (916-319-2028) 2. Bonnie Lowenthal (70, Long Beach) - MJ Gascon Flores (916-319-2070) 3. Rob Bonta (18, Oakland) - An-Chi Tsou (916-319-2018) 4. Shirley Weber (79, San Diego) - Crystal Quezada (916-319-2079) 5. Mariko Yamada (4, Vacaville) - Robert McLaughlin (916-319-2004) 6. Mark Stone (29, Monterey, Santa Cruz) - Arianna Smith (916-319-2029) We also need help calling our phone tree to alert activists without email to call. Please let us know if you have called. ___ I have called _____________ ___ I can help call our phone tree. ___ I have forwarded this alert. Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 Cell 415-810-5826

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CAN YOU VOLUNTEER TO MAKE A FEW CALLS?

Single Payer Now Phone Tree Callers

Needed for Sunday February 10

Annual Potluck

 

Dear Phone Tree Specialist,

 

We need your help calling activists for our Single Payer Now annual potluck on Sunday, Feb 10 at St Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco.

We have great speakers lined up.  See leaflet attached and pasted below.

 

Calling activists is the best way to build a meeting.  And 55% of our activists do not have email.

Please let me know how many names you can call.

Some people take 10, some 25, some 50 or more.  I will also send you a suggested script.

___ Please send me __ 10 names, __ 25 names, __ 50 names, __ more.

Thank you.

Don Bechler

Chair – Single Payer Now

415-695-7891

Single Payer Now's Yearly Healthcare Potluck

Featuring Presentations

On the Need for Universal Healthcare

Minus the Insurance Industry

 

With the passage of national healthcare legislation (the Affordable Care Act), 2013 presents both political challenges and opportunities for movement growth.   Under the best case scenario, the Affordable Care Act will still leave 3 million Californians uninsured.  The ACA will also deliver different levels of care to different classes of people and the insurance industry will still be stealing 20 billion dollars from Californians. 

 

Both nationally and in California we are working to pass legislation that would deliver healthcare to everyone and exclude the insurance industry.

Come learn why single payer healthcare is so important.   And enjoy a great meal.

Speakers include:

Ben Day: National Organizing Director for Healthcare Now.  Ben is past director of MassCare, Massachusetts's state advocacy organization.

Mike Casey – President of Local 2 UNITE HERE.  Local 2 represents 12,000 hotel workers in San Francisco.

Jodi Reid – Executive Director of the California Alliance for Retired Americans.

Roxanne Sanchez – President of Service Employees International Union 1021.  SEIU 1021 represents 54,000 workers in Northern California.

Sunday, February 10

3pm to 5pm

Doors open at 2:30

St Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco

1111 Gough St. @ Geary

Easy Parking in the Cathedral Parking Lot

Sponsored by Single Payer Now

For more information, call 415-695-7891 or email dbechler@value.net

 

Support the California Universal Healthcare Act

Support HR 676, the U.S. National Healthcare Act

Labor donated  posted Feb 1, 2013

San Francisco-->Feb 11 - Rally for Single Payer in Sac

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Rally for Single Payer Healthcare Sacramento, Mon. Feb. 11 Reserve a Seat on the Bus From SF or the Ashby BART I hope you can rally for Single Payer Healthcare with the California Health Professional Student Alliance and the Campaign for a Healthy California. Buses will be leaving from San Francisco and the Ashby BART station. You must reserve a seat. The buses will be full. The SF bus leaves at 9am sharp near the main library. The Ashby BART bus leaves at 9:15 on Adeline. Call me at 415-695-7891 or email me to reserve a seat on the bus. In Sacramento, you can choose between marching with the students from the Embassy Suites hotel or you can help us deliver 2000 postcards in support of the California Universal Healthcare Act to various legislators. At noon, we will rally with the students on the north steps of the capitol. At 1pm, we will march 2 blocks to the California Assn. of Health Plans to protest their existence. At 2pm, we will return to the Bay Area. Both buses should return to Berkeley and SF by 5pm. Snacks and lunches will be provided. We will past the hat to defray expenses. Whatever you can donate is in the plus column. This will be a great way to kick off our lobbying effort for healthcare minus the insurance companies. Please let us know if you attend. __ Yes, I want to reserve a seat on the SF bus. __ Yes, I want to reserve a seat on the Ashby BART bus. __ Yes, I can help call activists who do not have email. __ I can help carry a banner in the student march. __ I can help deliver postcards to legislators. __ I want to make a contribution to help defray expenses. To make a contribution, click here. Or you can send a contribution to: Single Payer Now PO Box 460622 San Francisco, CA 94146 Thank you, Don Bechler Chair - Single Payer Now 415-695-7891 Cell 415-810-5826

Single Payer Now survives on the generosity of our supporters. Please consider making a donation. www.SinglePayerNow.net | 415-695-7891 | dbechler@value.net