Million Letters for Health Care Campaign

Print Your Letter(s)

Our current campaign actions:
        Primary:     We print/prepare/send our letter to our U.S. Representative.
        Optional:    We optionally do one or more "extras", such as the "Extra #1":
                             Print/prepare/send letters to our two U.S. Senators.

1. Review the list of suggested notes from your current monthly reminder.
2. Print your starting point letter: a prepared, addressed letter to your U.S. Representative.

   Access your letter, below, by selecting your state, then district.

3. Add a short hand-written note to change the simple form letter into a much more powerful personal letter. If you use one of the suggested notes, feel free to change it to make it uniquely yours, but the shorter the better.
4. Complete and mail your letter.
   • Date it, and sign it.
   • Print your name and address.
   • Mail it via the U.S. Mail to your U.S. Representative at the address on the letter.
5. Consider this: doing the "extras". These "extras" have instructions also that help to minimize your time, money, and effort in doing each of them.

DIFFICULTIES? CONCERNS? I
— If you are unable to print & send a letter monthly because you have an access difficulty (such as normally having no printer), please go here.
— If you have any questions or concerns about sending letters by U.S. Mail to the U.S. Congress, please go here.
— If you have any other questions or concerns or difficulties about the above instructions, please contact us.

Guide to the information in the table below:

• U.S. Congressional District
• U.S. Representative Name
• Link to a printable, pre-addressed letter for your U.S. Representative
         (in pdf format, viewable in Acrobat Reader)
• Links to printable, pre-addressed letters for your U.S. Senators
         (in pdf format, viewable in Acrobat Reader)

Also see the Importance of These Letters to U.S. Representatives as they relate to President Obama, where you will also see How to Also Send a Letter to the President

• If necessary, find your U.S. Congressional District number.
• Members of the U.S. Congress whose names are green are single-payer supporters.

Select Your State, then District (U.S. Representative):

AL AK AS AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA GU HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MDMMI MN MP MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA VI WA WV WI WY

If selecting your letter's link, below, does not cause a download of the pdf file, then you may need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. You can download a free copy by clicking on the following image:

Importance of These Letters Being Sent to U.S. Representatives as they relate to President Obama.

Alternative title for the following information:
    How to Get Millions of Dollars of Media Attention for Free

Sending a thousand to two thousand letters to U.S. Representatives is the specific suggestion that Barack Obama promised would get results regarding health care policy. He stated that on April 3, 2007, at his health care meeting in New Hampshire. Immediately after the meeting Barack Obama used the word "mandate" when he indicated to a New Hampshire reporter that he requires action by the American people (if Americans want the health care policy that was expressed so very strongly by the New Hampshire residents: single-payer national health insurance). Thus, it may not be critical to also send a letter to President Obama every month when you send your letter to your U.S. Representative. I suggest that also sending a letter to the president is not a critical action. However, if 50% of the participants decide to take this additional step, then there will be not only 1 million letters going to the U.S. Congress and at least a few hundred thousand also going to the White House each month. Wow ... now THAT will get us millions of dollars of media attention for free!

Go to Obama recommends letters to see a video and listen to short audios of what occurred on 4/3/2007.

Extra Actions to Consider Taking

These possible actions are in order of priority.

Please do #1 first, then consider doing #2, then #3 ...

Following this 1,2,3,4, ... order of priority is important for us to have the greatest impact.

1. Send a letter to each of your two U.S. Senators, as per the second and third links to the right of the name of your U.S. Representative. See above.
2. Send a copy to President Obama at the White House.
   
   About #3 and #4: It does no harm to do Extra #3 and Extra #4 now, prior to Phase 3. But #3 and #4 become important to do in Phase 3, we will have the numbers that will make those phone calls a powerful additional force of daily action ... an addition to our MASSIVE ONCE-PER-MONTH FLOOD of envelopes that Congress will be experiencing.
3. Make a short toll-free call(s) on "your day of the month" to your U.S. Representative and consider making calls to additional persons that are provided as "targets".
4. Send free fax on "your day of the month" to the White House Office of Health Reform.

Send a Copy to the President
to flood the White House with
hundreds of thousands of our envelopes

1. Make a copy of your letter that you are sending this month to your U.S. Representative.
2. Write this at the top: "President Obama, FYI"
3. Send it to the following address:

President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500

If you have difficulty printing the letter ...

The primary objective is to have thousands of envelopes going to every U.S. Representative's office every month. Therefore, please consider these options in this order of priority:

1. Display the pdf file and write your letter by hand, as part of doing the steps for sending your letter.
2. Get help from a friend or from your local public library so that you can print a few copies. Tip: do not get more than 3 to 4 copies at a time, because the letter does get a refinement whenever necessary.
3. Call each month instead of sending a letter.

Sending letters via U.S. Mail
to members of the U.S. Congress in Washington, DC
... Fine. Recommended. Critical.

FINE — Sending by U.S. Mail is fine.
It takes a maximum of 5-7 days to process.

Normal Processing of Mail. No matter who communicates the myth about sending letters, please do not be influenced by those who write or say it takes weeks for a letter to get through the U.S. Congress mail room. One rumor is that it typically takes 4-6 weeks -- or as long as 3 months! Another is that some mail will never arrive, and sometimes is destroyed. I made multiple contacts with the U.S. Capitol mail-room supervision: face-to-face in Washington, D.C., then multiple calls to mailroom managers. I learned what the facts are, what the reality is for most of the letters going to Washington, D.C.

Exceptions. There are exceptions in the U.S. Mail to Washington, D.C. If there is a suspected contamination (with poison) with one or more envelopes in a batch, that batch of mail will be stopped and examined carefully. That could take some extra time to resolve, which is likely impossible to predict (Comment: this situation might be analogous to that relatively small number of concerned Canadians who come to the U.S. for health care compared to the amount of health care that satisfied Canadians receive. The normal situation is that Canadians get excellent care and are satisfied. The normal situation for the U.S. Mail to Washington, D.C. is that it's fine, based on my research with the persons who manage the mailroom.)

For an update about this go to my special report that explains what started the rumor: an event(s) that occurred back in 2001.

RECOMMENDED — Sending by U.S. Mail was strongly recommended by President Obama.

Explanation via President Obama's input. As a follow-up to Barack Obama's recommendation to send a thousand to two thousand letters in every U.S. Congressional District, I did some follow-up research. In the early summer and again in mid-winter of 2007 I went to Barack Obama's U.S. Senate office. I later followed up with multiple telephone contacts with his staff. When he recommends letters, he means letters in the U.S. Mail. His staff said that it's the best way to keep track of an input from a citizen and provide a reply.

CRITICAL — Sending by U.S. Mail is critical to the campaign's success.

The sending of a million envelopes in the U.S. Mail results in following items:
— Free media coverage. Due to the very visible impact of having a million envelopes processed by the sniffing machines at the anthrax detection center, then by the U.S. Capitol mailroom, and then by hundreds of staff members in the U.S. Congress
— informed Americans: tens of millions of Americans learning what "single-payer" means in order to accomplish getting a million of them to send a letter each month
— supportive members of the U.S.Congress who want to be re-elected
— Americans ready to mobilize: those Americans who become informed and are willing to invest time each month in this effort will result in some of them being more than willing to rally. Those Americans will consider traveling to massive rallies in each of their states to help make this happen. That will be needed more than ever if the members of Congress don't finally respond after their dismal performance of harming America and Americans, as seen in the world view.

What Participants Get Via This Campaign

— You receive the free service: monthly e-mails which provide the instructions for what actions are suggested for the current month.

When a letter(s) is to be sent, new suggestions/ideas are provided for how to turn the campaign's form letter into a personalized letter.

— You will be counted in the totals, so that we can know and report the following information:
     1) the total number of participants
     and 2) the number of participants in your U.S. Congressional District.
These totals are important to the campaign's success; we need to know how many participants there are in each U.S. Congressional District.

— Special Note. When you receive the e-mails, please read the instructions each time, because they will change over time, according to:
1) the four phases of our campaign's plan and
2) any month during which we have all letters go to one postal address so that they can be hand-delivered to the U.S. Congress' offices.

We WILL get their attention.

We can and will get Improved Medicare for All.