Number of Participants:

Need: 2,299 per month
in Every U.S. Congressional District
communicating to the U.S. Representative in that district

U.S. Representatives respond positively when thousands of their constituents communicate a need. U.S. Representatives love to report to the press that very strong input was received from their constituents on a topic and that they responded positively to the input.

Those same thousands of inputs to U.S. Representatives for a given state will influence U.S. Senators, but feel free to communicate to them and the U.S. President also. When you print and send your letter you will see the link to “extras” for communications to more than simply your U.S. Representative.

It is a significant task to get thousands of people in each district to communicate monthly. But the task is doable/feasible. We can and will do this.

Yes, we can.

Uninsured and Underinsured

There is an amazingly high 42% now for the combination of the number of persons under age 65 who are uninsured or undersinsured. This is an average of 186,000 persons per U.S. Congressional District. The reality of possible financial ruin had already started to hit the middle and upper class, but the possibility for them is higher than ever.

How Many Are Underinsured? Trends Among U.S. Adults, 2003 and 2007” – June 2008 report in Health Affairs magazine 27, no. 4 (2008).

Whether a letter represents 10 or 1,000 (below), a letter has a big impact on U.S. Representatives.

• Articles about the impact of communications to politicians.
  • In an extensive Sierra Club article there is mention about the power of a single personally-composed letter and that it carries much more weight than form letters. It also mentions that “every letter or phone call equals eight to 10 (constituents) in the community …”, and I’ve heard one U.S. Representative’s staff say that it represents 100 constituents in their office.
  • This article quotes a U.S. Representative from Georgia that “Legislators estimate that 10 letters from constituents represent the concerns of 10,000 citizens.” – which would be that one personally composed letter represents a thousand citizens.
  • From a Colorado article: “Letters, not money, are the mother’s milk of politics. Especially letters from constituents. … Letters are solid. They don’t disappear over electrical waves, as do phone calls. Legislators especially prize written as opposed to typed or computerized letters. It shows effort, and assuming the penmanship is good, it almost presents a voice. But legislators are going to read your letter, no matter whether written or typed.”

We, the People, Want Support!

Over half of Americans want single-payer!