Fwd: Friday: Crucial Vote on Single Payer Healthcare

One week ago, we eagerly anticipated a crucial vote on single-payer Medicare for All ( H.R.676 ) in the House Energy & Commerce Committee, sponsored by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). But then seven BlueDogs waged a highly-publicized war against a "robust public option" and the vote was delayed for a full week. We just learned the vote will be tomorrow ( Friday ). Based on all of your calls, we have nine single-payer Democrats: Tammy Baldwin, Michael Doyle, Eliot Engel, Anna Eshoo, Gene Green, Edward Markey, Janice Schakowsky, Anthony Weiner, and Peter Welch. Lean Yes Diana DeGette CO01 202-225-4431 Jane Harman CA36 202-225-8220 Christopher Murphy CT05 202-225-4476 Frank Pallone NJ06 202-225-4671 @FrankPallone Bobby Rush IL01 202-225-4372 Five more Democrats are leaning single-payer but still uncommitted. Please call each one and give them one crucial reason to support single-payer from our petition: http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-petition?cid=ZGVtczU3Mzc0NmRlbXM= (Be sure to sign our petition and forward it if you haven't already.) Be concise and practice in advance so you can speak quickly (or leave a voicemail) because they are getting swamped. Report the results of your calls here: http://www.democrats.com/single-payer-committee-whip Public Option Only (or Won't Say) Rick Boucher VA09 202-225-3861 Bruce Braley IA01 202-225-2911 G.K. Butterfield NC01 202-225-3101 Lois Capps CA23 202-225-3601 Kathy Castor FL11 202-225-3376 John Dingell MI15 202-225-4071 Charles Gonzalez TX20 202-225-3236 Jay Inslee WA01 202-225-6311 @RepInsleeNews Doris Matsui CA05 202-225-7163 Jerry McNerney CA11 202-225-1947 John Sarbanes MD03 202-225-4016 Bart Stupak MI01 202-225-4735 Betty Sutton OH13 202-225-3401 Henry Waxman (Chair) CA30 202-225-3976 If you have more time, these 14 Democrats support a "public option" at best. But that "public option" (a new government program to compete with private insurance) was disastrously weakened this week by the BlueDogs. They banned the use of Medicare pricing to reduce costs and thereby expand availability. Try to persuade these 14 to vote for single-payer instead of a worthless BlueDog "public option." Don't let anyone tell you single-payer can't pass: the Kucinich Amendment for a single-payer "state option" passed by a shocking 25-19 bi-partisan majority in the House Education and Labor Committee on July 17. The Weiner Amendment will pass on Friday if enough Democrats vote for it! A victory on the Weiner Amendment would make a huge difference. Please call as soon as you get this - night or day. Thanks for all you do! Bob Fertik ##### Let's bring the Twitter Revolution to the USA! Follow Bob Fertik: http://twitter.com/bobfertik Follow David Swanson http://twitter.com/davidcnswanson Follow our Activist Alerts: http://twitter.com/democratscom Follow AfterDowningStreet http://twitter.com/afterdowningst ##### Forward this message to everyone you know! Subscribe to our email Activist Alerts by creating a free Democrats.com account: http://www.democrats.com/user/register Unsubscribe from our Activist Alerts: http://archive.democrats.com/unsub.cfm?email=singlepayercentral@gmail.com&fieldname=L16 Unsubscribe from all Democrats.com email lists: http://archive.democrats.com/unsub.cfm?email=singlepayercentral@gmail.com&fieldname=L1