Votes for Single-Payer
MOST RECENT VOTING OPPORTUNITY, at change.org, ended on January 15, 5 p.m. EST.
The results of that voting are below.
Vote Monitor for change.org
Last day of voting in January 2009
| Jan 15 11 am | Jan 15 2 pm | Jan 15 4 pm | Jan 15 5 pm | Final Count | |
| Legalize Marijuana | 18890 #1 | 19060 #1 | 19400 #1 | 19520 #1 | 19530 #1 |
| Sec. of Peace | 14280 #2 | 14500 #2 | 14900 #2 | 14984 #2 | 14994 #2 |
| Single-Payer | 12890 #3 | 13150 #3 | 13800 #3 | 13907 #3 | 13928 #3 |
| Make the grid green | 11810 #4 | 12100 #4 | 12720 #4 | 12894 #4 | 12913 #4 |
| Get FISA Right | —– #7 | 11610 #7 | 12020 #7 | 12150 #7 | 12285 #5 |
| Save Small Bus. | 11430 #6 | 11630 #6 | 12150 #5 | 12257 #5 | 12280 #6 |
| Health Freedom | 11580 #5 | 11690 #5 | 12000 #6 | 12051 #6 | 12062 #7 |
Please Vote Before 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15
Please ask 2 Others to Vote.
Please help them vote to help ensure
that their voting is successful.
- Register If you are not already registered at change.org, then:
- Know what you are voting for
- If you know nothing about non-profit single-payer national health insurance … or you want to know more, start with the explanation
- Vote
- Select the “Free Single Payer Health Care” idea
- Select the Vote button at immediate left of the title (“Free Single Payer Health Care”)
- Important notes
- Please do not be bothered by the word “free” in the title or the imperfect wording of the “NOTE”
- The important thing is that this “idea” refers to H.R. 676, which is what we want and need for the United States. Refer to the explanation about single-payer for further information.
- Spread the word
- Tell 2-3 other citizens - or many more!
- Communicate the this web page’s link to others in either one of the following formats, which each go to the same place (to this “Votes for Single-Payer” web page):
- www.medicareforall.org/pages/Votes
- Please be certain to thank them for voting. They are doing a critical activity for which millions of Americans will be grateful.
- FYI: voting is until Thursday January 15 at 5 p.m. EST
Non-Profit Single-Payer National Health Insurance
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The Calendar
| Jan 15, Thu. | End of voting 5 p.m. EST |
| Jan 16, Fri. | If we get many Americans to vote, then … at the press conference Americans will hear an announcement of an advocacy project for single-payer health care and look forward to having the single-payer advocacy topic have the largest number of votes, indicating the highest amount of public support. |
(last) Status Report
Today, January 15, was the last day. Voting occurred until 5 p.m.
Vote Monitor Part 2 — for change.org
The numbers below are rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Morning of January 7: | 4,000 |
| Afternoon of January 7: | 5,000 |
| Morning of January 8: | 6,000 |
| Afternoon of January 8: | 6,000 |
| Morning of January 9:
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7,000 |
| Afternoon of January 9: | 7,000 |
| Morning of January 10:
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7,000 |
| Afternoon of January 10: | 8,000 |
| Morning of January 11: | 8,000 |
| Afternoon of January 11: | 8,000 |
| Morning of January 12:
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9,000 |
| Afternoon of January 12:
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9,000 |
| Morning of January 13:
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9,000 |
| Afternoon of January 13:
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10,000 |
| Morning of January 14:
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11,000 |
| Afternoon of January 14:
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12,000 |
| Morning of January 15:
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12,000 (slipped to 3rd) |
| Afternoon of January 15:
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13,000, then went up to 13,928 |
Press Conference
“The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case Foundation. At the event we will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign behind each idea in collaboration with our nonprofit partners to turn each idea into actual policy.” – change.org
Purposes
- Obtain a Higher Degree of Advocacy for Single-Payer via the “launch of a national advocacy campaign by those who sponsored the voting.
- Achieve Another Demonstration that Americans Want Single-Payer
- Increased Awareness by More Citizens. This voting activity can be a contributor to having new additional citizen contacts about single-payer
- Giving Supporters an Easy Way to Make Another Contribution to the Cause.
Acknowledgment
This Million Votes activity would not be possible without the creation of the Ideas for Change in America website. “Ideas for Change in America is a project of Change.org, an online community and media network for social issues, in partnership with more than 50 leading organizations, including MySpace, techPresident, the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, Declare Yourself, Student PIRGs, Voto Latino, HeadCount, and Change Congress.” The website’s support team is currently “currently compiling a press page with overviews of each of our dozens of nonprofit partners.” - change.org
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