is "Universal Health Care."
Please remind MoveOn "Insurance" is not the same as "Health Care," and
we voted for the latter not the former.
Urge MoveOn to explicitly endorse Rep. John Conyers' bill H.R. 676,
Expanded and Improved Medicare for All.
Contact MoveOn here: http://pol.moveon.org/feedback/fb/form.html?tp=suggest
I sent this message:
Thank you for polling us, the members of MoveOn, to determine our top
priorities. I agree with millions of other MoveOn members that universal
health care (as opposed to health insurance) should be our top priority.
Thank you for framing the issue accurately. "Insurance" is not the same
as "Health Care," and we voted for the latter not the former.
Please explicitly endorse Rep. John Conyers' bill H.R. 676, Expanded and
Improved Medicare for All. No other approach is proven to
cost-efficiently, fairly and effectively provide universal health
care--currently to all Americans who qualify by age or other characteristic.
Extending Medicare to all, and improving it by allowing negotiations for
pharmaceuticals, higher reimbursements for doctors and other provisions
in the bill, would indeed guarantee universal health care. Other
approaches cannot.
Thank you!
Mike Hersh
Contact MoveOn here: http://pol.moveon.org/feedback/fb/form.html?tp=suggest
Here's the announcement from MoveOn, with the top four priorities:
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Dear MoveOn member,
Hundreds of thousands of us nominated and voted, and now the results are
in--we know where to focus MoveOn's efforts for the next year.
We asked you to vote for your three top goals, but after looking at the
results, it's clear that four rose above and beyond the rest.
Here's how it worked out, in descending order:
1. Universal Health Care
2. Economic Recovery and Job Creation
3. Build a Green Economy and Stop Climate Change
4. End the War in Iraq
(Check the P.S. for a link to the full results, including the percentage
of folks who voted for each goal.)
The agenda you set is bold, ambitious--and it is exactly the change
America needs. Of course, these aren't the only things we'll work on
together--we'll work on other issues as they come up, too. But the four
big goals listed above will be our top priorities.
Over the course of the week, we received more than 78,000 nominations,
1.6 MILLION ratings and 806,707 votes.
And we also received a lot of emails--stories from so many MoveOn
members who're personally affected by these issues. Notes like the one
below are a reminder of why these goals are so critical.
"I lost a daughter to cancer in July after a fight she couldn't win
because she had no insurance. When President-elect Obama said no one in
these United States should die of cancer because they didn't have
insurance, I knew we had to work to get him elected. My daughter had to
go to a county hospital where they died one by one in Houston, TX, one
of the cities with the best cancer hospitals. That is when I joined
MoveOn and worked with them online and in my city to register and get
out the message to vote. My daughter passed away wishing her death would
not be in vain. Yes We Did." --Martha T., Abilene, TX
Click here to read more of these stories on each of the four
priorities--and to see the full results for all 10 finalists:
http://pol.moveon.org/2009/agenda/results/
So, thank you for lending your thoughts, your nominations, and your
ratings to this process. It's a huge, exciting agenda!
Have a great holiday season, and rest up--because in 2009, we've got a
lot to do.
Thanks for all you do.
--Adam, Adam G., Aisling, Anna, Carrie, Daniel, Eli, Ilyse, Joan,
Justin, Karin, Laura, Lenore, Marika, Matt, Michael, Nita, Noah, Patrick
S., Peter, Tanya, Wes and the whole team
P.S. To see the full results from the voting, click below:
http://www.pol.moveon.org/2009/agenda/results/results2.html
