Status

Million Letters for Health Care Campaign

Single-Payer Health Care via Improved Medicare for All

Million Letters for Health Care Campaign

Current Status by Campaign Phase: We are currently in Phase 1 with the details of the phases to be explained later.

Monitoring Progress

Campaign Monitor:  A campaign monitor will show the number of participants and the average number of participants across districts for each state. The District of Columbia will be reported separately.

Single-Payer Support Monitor: interim reporting

Number of U.S. Representative Supporters in the U.S. House will be reported here. For now, you can go to the support monitor (U.S. Representatives) for the current level of support.

Number of U.S. Senator supporters in the U.S. Senate will be reported here. For now, you can go to the support monitor (U.S. Senators) for the current level of support.

About the campaign phases and about instructions for milestone months.

Monthly e-mails reminders change over time, providing different instructions, based on what we do in each phase of the campaign.

For example, when we reach a certain milestone (number of participants across the districts, based on every state reaching an average number of participants across their districts), all of us will be encouraged to do some specific "extras" or do some different communications activity.

Example of an "extra": For that month we may have an especially large flow of letters to Washington, D.C. by sending letters to more people in Washington, D.C. One example would be to our U.S. Senators. Another possibility would be to the President and/or his representative: the person who most closely deals with the president regarding health care.

Example of a variation: For that month we may make a call(s) to Congress, organized by our personal "day of the month". Those calls will be efficient and effective by being short and clearly worded via a specific procedure that we created early in campaign preparations. The result will be to flood office with calls with efficient calls that help to minimize the possibility of jamming the phone lines.

Single-Payer Health Care
via Improved Medicare for All

Overall status ...

... as per the proposed legislation for national single-payer health care via improved Medicare for All

Bill in U.S. House: H.R. 676

Bill in U.S. Senate: none (S.915 sponsored by Sanders is not Medicare for All)

... among members of the U.S. Congress

Single-payer health care is considered by most members of the U.S. Congress to have no "political will". That equates to the fact that most members of Congress have never heard from a large number of their constituents in a personalized way via USPS (the U.S. Mail). Until each and every one of them does get personalized communications from a large number of constituents, single-payer health care will remain weak among the members of the U.S. House and weak among members of the U.S. Senate. Overall, it means essentially nothing in the U.S. Congress.

... among Americans

When Americans are asked in polls if they want it,
     somewhat over half say yes.

When Americans are asked for their opinion
     when they are under the influence by the opposition's media campaign(s),
     way over half say no.

Single-payer is not a significant subject of discussion among Americans at the dinner table at home or the water coolers at work.

Overall needs, as indicated by the status ...

Knowledge: Americans need to know what the subject is and be promoting it to each other at home and work

Numbers: Americans who are interested in taking action must communicate in large numbers to the members of the U.S. Congress and must promote Medicare

Current status among Americans: Millions of Americans need to know what the subject is and communicate to the U.S. Congress in order for the subject to have any degree of significance in American politics.