About

Knowledge and Numbers

This website and the Million Letters for Health Care campaign are about citizens getting educated about Medicare for All (single-payer) and taking action to get it. The needs are sometimes described as “knowledge and numbers.”

The People Behind This Website and Campaign

Development and maintenance Teams, Advisers and Other Contributors.
— The information, materials and services provided at the website are the result of contributions of teams and individuals.
— None of us are paid, although it would be best to establish a paid, trained staff person to help with the campaign office workload. We look forward to enough people to donate $2/month to $4/month so that a paid staff person(s) could be added as the numbers climb to a million participants.
— Some of the members are advisers who provide guidance and advice, if and as required.
— A few people contributed hundreds of hours in 2007, but are no longer available.
— Others are brand new in first quarter of 2010.
— Still others make a one-time contribution, contacting us by e-mail and/or phone and working with us some hours or a few days to implement their contribution. One example of that is the use of “sign up to stand up …”, but there are either dozens or perhaps hundreds of other examples.
— Finally, many persons have made excellent contributions by communicating a suggestion, comments, problems or questions at the contact web page.
— Summary: this is a truly grassroots activity.

Behind-the-Scenes and Why

Perhaps it’s clear from the situation that we do not publish lists of the team members who are behind-the-scenes. That confidentiality is especially valid now, since some team members’ work is winding down. Frankly, some of them are very seriously worried that announcing their name(s) will cause an overload of requests of them. We, as a group, offer the information, materials and services to you, whether you are an individual or group or organization.

Your Scope

What is in your scope, starting in February 2010. Whether you are an individual working alone or you are a member of a group or organizations, the process of having the Vision and execution of the Strategy are in your hands. We invite you to use the Resources and spend some of your time on this important activity of telling others and getting them to sign up to stand up for single-payer (improved Medicare for All).

Our Belief About Getting Single-Payer … using this website and its letters campaign

We very firmly believe that we can and will have an improved Medicare for All: sooner, not later. Some people in the U.S. have shared that they or someone they know have been trying to get Medicare for All for 30 to 40 years. Clearly it’s time to get moving on educating Americans solidly and provided them with one resource to go for further information. Clearly it’s time to have an excellent one-place resource to provide answers to questions, so that single-payer activists can and will be armed with those answers … or be able to find them … to help make their fellow Americans comfortable with this important change to our society.

The Need: Knowledge and Numbers

Tens of thousands of Americans need to 1) tell their fellow Americans about Medicare for All and its benefits and 2) answering their questions (as provided) and helping them feel comfortable with the U.S. having an improved Medicare for All.

What We Offer … and Our Support for It

We’ve given you our contribution of information, materials and services; see Resources. Since so many of us from around the country have contributed to the information and materials, we hope that you will find the information both useful and accurate. If you see anything for which you feel that we made an error or that you feel is now out-of-date, please contact so that he can either fix it or have a team review and refine/correct it.

About Bob. After several years of doing research about health care policy, our “point person” Bob got the idea about having a letters campaign in January 2007. A few months later he heard Barack Obama communicate his suggestion that a thousand to two thousand letters be sent to every one of the 435 U.S. Representatives, which totals roughly a million letters. His initial campaign title was “Notes and Votes” to represent letters flowing to Washington, D.C. and votes occurring that impact who is in the U.S. Congress. Then he realized by someone else mentioning the same or similar title at a meeting and then later not seeing any follow-up, he realized that he had already initiated a “Million Letters for Health Care” campaign, so he and our technical team switched the name and moved the website content to its new address, this web site.

Invitation

All of us in all of the teams invite you to take full advantage of the website information and tools plus the services provided by the Million Letters for Health Care campaign.

Bob, Who Initiated the Website and Campaign

Bob introduces himself below.

I am retired and devote my life to making contributions to the national single-payer movement. That’s the movement to get Medicare for All: non-profit single-payer national health insurance: an improved Medicare for All. My career was in engineering (research, then manufacturing) and then computer applications. I am accustomed to operating based as firmly as possible on facts. I have personal and family experiences in other countries, registered patients for a year, had significant personal medical experiences, have studied health care policy for over six years, and know single-payer activists and health care policy experts from across the country who give me support by being on the teams mentioned above.

As indicated in the vision statements, I believe that the United States will have single-payer , an improved Medicare for All (not privatized) … when enough Americans learn what single-payer is and then at least a million of those Americans participate and do the “Help Get Care” steps that I and my fellow activists recommend.

Let’s have the FIRST of
the following 2 possibilities:

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
with the Facts

Requirement: About ONE MILLION AMERICANS
communicating to U.S. Representatives
are required
for true Grassroots Action
for Democracy in Action

instead of

CONTINUED CONTROL of OUR OPINIONS
with Sound Bites

Requirement: the TENS of MILLIONS of DOLLARS
have been spent and are being spent
to Influence Our Opinions

We, the People, Want Support!

Take action!

If we don’t act, then elected officials will most likely continue to act in opposition to the will of the people.

Dedication

Refer to the book Health Care Meltdown by Robert H. LeBow, MD. The book’s 2007 update by C. Rocky White, MD. was released in mid-August 2007. This campaign is dedicated to the memory of Bob LeBow. I recommend that you purchase this book; specific pages of it are referenced at this web site. The book is an important resource for the single-payer movement. No financial gain is realized by our group or me when you purchase the book. The book can be purchased at www.amazon.com

Special note about “Real Life Stories” that are included at this website. I hope that you read and listen to the experiences of the two women who are stranded in Canada due to the excellent health care there.

Access to this website is also available by entering www.goodhealthforall.org … which will be devoted to the ultimate objective of having good health for all. In other words, we need to all strive for our good health and the health of our family, friends and neighbors.