Vision

Vision for an improved Medicare for All
via single-payer health care, the best way to pay for it

VISION STATEMENT: “The United States has improved Medicare for All via single-payer health care, which is contributing to recovering businesses, recovering and creating jobs, improving health, and saving lives. The result is health care justice and equality, peace of mind regarding health care bills, and a major contribution to good health for all.”

ALTERNATE VISION STATEMENT: “The United States has improved Medicare for All.”

See About Vision Statements to understand why the vision statements on this web page are worded as though they were already accomplished.

What to do. Think and feel positive about the future of health care in the United States. Have the thought about having an improved Medicare for All constantly (frequently) on your mind.
… and/or do this: …
Once per day think about the U.S. having an improved Medicare for All plus say, out loud, the vision statement, seen above, or the alternate vision statement above. Doing this does work. It was one of the contributing factors of how Obama got the presidency, as noted in in “About Vision Statements”, below.

Why this will work for this grassroots movement. The coolest, neatest thing of all about this is that we have a very big edge over the opposition in the use of vision statements for these reasons:
1) we have the best alternative, far better than any other option and with much better benefits than the current way of paying for health care;
2) we have the power of knowledge and numbers, which are being accomplished via our strategy and plan;
and 3) people all around the world are rooting for us, including Americans who live and work in other free-market countries.

Related Vision: the flow of a million letters to help get Medicare for All

VISION STATEMENT

“A million American citizens are participating in the Million Letters for Health Care campaign. Our monthly letters via the U.S. Mail establish the support in the U.S. Congress for an improved Medicare for All.

Related Thoughts to Have, especially if you want to develop your own version of a vision statement for the Million Letters for Health Care campaign:

When I prepare my letter I am “one in a million” … one million voices united with one message: we want an improved Medicare for All via single-payer health care.

When I put my letter into its envelope and into the U.S. Mail to go to my U.S. Representative each month it becomes one of a million envelopes that are all flowing at about the same time to the offices of the U.S. House of Representatives.

The largest grassroots movement action that the U.S. has ever seen is reported by the U.S. and international media, which adds even more emphasis on the need for the U.S. Congress to establish the single-payer: the public agency that will be the efficient payer of medical bills.

The Massive Flow of Envelopes

The million letters goes to Washington D.C. each month in a massive flow of envelopes, in the following steps, which take about 5 to 7 days for most mail going in this manner:
— transported in the U.S. Mail to the anthrax detection center
— processed by the detection center
— transported in the U.S. Mail to the U.S. Capitol mailroom
— sorted in the U.S. Mail room
— delivered to the 435 individual offices of U.S. Representatives
— and processed by the staff personnel in each of the 435 U.S. Congressional District offices

Sending a letter by U.S. Mail to the U.S. Congress

When he was campaigning to become president, our President Obama recommended sending letters. That’s a solid source for a recommendation. But will the letters get there? Rumors abound about this! Following is a brief summary:

See About Sending Mail for an explanation about how long it takes to send a letter to the U.S. Congress. It is very important for us to keep the following points in mind:

• Sending a letter in number 10 (business envelope) to the U.S. Capitol takes 5-7 days and does arrive at its destination just fine.
  
• Sending a letter in the U.S. Mail is what Barack Obama’s staff confirmed as what he meant when he recommended letters be sent.
  
• Sending a letter is better than e-mail, which is why Barack Obama recommended it.

About Sending Mail provides more background knowledge about the 5-7 days.

About Vision Statements and Self-Affirmations

The vision statements above are written as what is called “self-affirmations.” It is stating something that you want and visualizing it as occurring as though it was already here, already being experienced. They are intended to be said out loud if possible, at least once per day focused on that future vision. Whether out loud or not and with your eyes closed or not, say it with meaning, say it as though the vision is already being experienced by you and by all other Americans.

Doing this daily action of stating the self-affirmation of a vision is powerful; it helped Barack Obama become the President of the United States, as noted here by Bob:
    The campaign staff was encouraged to visualize Barack Obama giving his State of the Union address in 2009. I read an e-mail internal to the Obama campaign that had the self-affirmation suggestion to the campaign staff. As far as I know, that leak about the vision only occurred one time during the campaign. The leak occurred very early in the campaign. It was an activity internal to the campaign headquarters and never communicated broadly during the campaign.

Also see Mission, Strategy, Goal and Plan