A Healthcare Call to Action by Ram Das (John Iversen)

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam todos,

 

you can also find this call to action at:

www.spiritualprogressives.org, thanks to Rabbi Michael Lerner

and www.pdamerica.org (Progressive Democrats of America

 

if the spirit of healthcare for all moves you, please forward widely

and take the actions I request. now is the time. Blessings and

health, Ram Das Singh (John Iversen)

 

 

Silence = Death: A Healthcare Call to Action by John Iversen

 

Decisions in the coming weeks will affect the delivery of healthcare in

America for decades to come. We are at a crossroads.

 

On Thursday, October 29, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled Dennis Kucinich's

(D-OH) state single payer (Medicare for All) initiative amendment from the House

bill with no notice, no discussion and no vote. This is what Pelosi's democracy

looks like. Pelosi is probably well aware that Canadians obtained their

national health system province by province. God forbid states like Vermont,

Massachusetts, Minnesota and California should lead the way to a similar system

in the U.S!

 

I was lucky enough to be born into the first American healthcare

co-operative started by local unions in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1944, and be

covered by it for my first 21 years. The Two Harbors model was a precursor to

HMOs such as Kaiser and Medica. Recently the Two Harbors Community Clinic/First

Plan was bought out by Blue Cross as they were too small to compete. Larger

groups such as Group Health in Minneapolis also buckled under the competition.

So the Max Baucus (D-MT)/Kent Conrad (D-ND) co-op idea is a failed one and

either shows their lack of knowledge or disingenuosness to sabotage a strong

public option that includes state single payer (Medicare for All) initiatives as

supported by Kucinich, John Conyers (D-MI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

 

As a person disabled by AIDS and arthritis in 1991 I've had the good

fortune of receiving Medicare. Every American should have access to the care I

had growing up in the first medical co-op and for the last 18 years with

Medicare.

 

So what groups are on the ball and supporting the Conyers-Kucinich-Sanders

amendments? I've been taking attendance and here are a few: Progressive

Democrats of America (pdamerica.org), Tikkun Magazine (tikkun.org), Califonia

Nurses Association (calnurses.org), Physicians for a National Health Program

(pnph.org), alliancefordemocracy.org, Network of Spiritual Progressives

(spiritualprogressives.org), centerforpolicyanalysis.org, healthcarenow.org,

healthcareforall.org and the California State Employees Association.

Progressive media such as Democracy Now!, MSNBC, and the Ed Schultz Show have

also given the issue coverage. Local and state organizations can be found at:

healthcare-now.org and www.uhcan.org <http://www.uhcan.org>

 

Noticeably absent from class are most labor unions, single issue groups,

all national LGBT, people of color and women's groups. They are resting on

their laurels of passing Medicare for All resolutions and then doing nothing to

back it up.

 

What distresses me most is the steely silence of supposedly progressive

large internet groups. Here is their contact information: most notably Move On:

healthaction ; info ;

act,alerts , activist@ democrats.com. Please

ask these groups to put out alerts asking folks to call Pelosi's San Francisco

office: 415-556-4862. Calls to her DC office are rerouted like a hot potato

once they ascertain you do not live in her district. As Speaker of the House I

think she owes an ear to all of us. She needs to support rather than sabotage

the movement for Medicare for All at the state level. Also consider donating to

the groups present, and boycotting those absent on this timely and important

issue.

 

 

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is accepting calls from everyone

at his DC office: 202-2243542. Rep. Joe Stupak should also be called at his

Michigan office: 906-228-3700 or FAX: 202-225-4744. Ask Pelosi and Reid to

appoint John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders to the Joint

Senate/House Conference Committee on Health Insurance Reform.

 

If we are to progress we must ACT UP and make a joyful and thunderous

noise throughout the land NOW. Silence does indeed equal death for 45,000

Americans annually under the present broken system. As Bill Moyers says. " This

is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Get busy. " So email the abstaining

internet groups, call Pelosi, Reid and Stupak, call your union, church or any

group to which you belong. To quote another Minnesota boy, Bob Dylan: " Let us

stop talking falsely now, the hour's getting late. "

 

John Iversen is an internationally known, honored and proclaimed

AIDS and health activist from Berkeley, CA, and has been HIV + for 29 years.

[Guest guest]

Yes These times call for Spiritual warriors and warrioresses can't be one or the

other must be both this was something Yoga Bhajan promoted

Active in our larger community. Thank you for this post

 

Blessings

Gurutej

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " John " <johniversen94702 wrote:

>

> Sat Nam todos,

>

> you can also find this call to action at:

> www.spiritualprogressives.org, thanks to Rabbi Michael Lerner

> and www.pdamerica.org (Progressive Democrats of America

>

> if the spirit of healthcare for all moves you, please forward widely

> and take the actions I request. now is the time. Blessings and

> health, Ram Das Singh (John Iversen)

>

>

> Silence = Death: A Healthcare Call to Action by John Iversen

>

> Decisions in the coming weeks will affect the delivery of healthcare in

America for decades to come. We are at a crossroads.

>

> On Thursday, October 29, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled Dennis

Kucinich's (D-OH) state single payer (Medicare for All) initiative amendment

from the House bill with no notice, no discussion and no vote. This is what

Pelosi's democracy looks like. Pelosi is probably well aware that Canadians

obtained their national health system province by province. God forbid states

like Vermont, Massachusetts, Minnesota and California should lead the way to a

similar system in the U.S!

>

> I was lucky enough to be born into the first American healthcare

co-operative started by local unions in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1944, and be

covered by it for my first 21 years. The Two Harbors model was a precursor to

HMOs such as Kaiser and Medica. Recently the Two Harbors Community Clinic/First

Plan was bought out by Blue Cross as they were too small to compete. Larger

groups such as Group Health in Minneapolis also buckled under the competition.

So the Max Baucus (D-MT)/Kent Conrad (D-ND) co-op idea is a failed one and

either shows their lack of knowledge or disingenuosness to sabotage a strong

public option that includes state single payer (Medicare for All) initiatives as

supported by Kucinich, John Conyers (D-MI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

>

> As a person disabled by AIDS and arthritis in 1991 I've had the good

fortune of receiving Medicare. Every American should have access to the care I

had growing up in the first medical co-op and for the last 18 years with

Medicare.

>

> So what groups are on the ball and supporting the

Conyers-Kucinich-Sanders amendments? I've been taking attendance and here are a

few: Progressive Democrats of America (pdamerica.org), Tikkun Magazine

(tikkun.org), Califonia Nurses Association (calnurses.org), Physicians for a

National Health Program (pnph.org), alliancefordemocracy.org, Network of

Spiritual Progressives (spiritualprogressives.org), centerforpolicyanalysis.org,

healthcarenow.org, healthcareforall.org and the California State Employees

Association. Progressive media such as Democracy Now!, MSNBC, and the Ed

Schultz Show have also given the issue coverage. Local and state organizations

can be found at: healthcare-now.org and www.uhcan.org <http://www.uhcan.org>

>

> Noticeably absent from class are most labor unions, single issue groups,

all national LGBT, people of color and women's groups. They are resting on

their laurels of passing Medicare for All resolutions and then doing nothing to

back it up.

>

> What distresses me most is the steely silence of supposedly progressive

large internet groups. Here is their contact information: most notably Move On:

healthaction ; info ; act,alerts , activist@ democrats.com.

Please ask these groups to put out alerts asking folks to call Pelosi's San

Francisco office: 415-556-4862. Calls to her DC office are rerouted like a hot

potato once they ascertain you do not live in her district. As Speaker of the

House I think she owes an ear to all of us. She needs to support rather than

sabotage the movement for Medicare for All at the state level. Also consider

donating to the groups present, and boycotting those absent on this timely and

important issue.

>

>

> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is accepting calls from everyone

at his DC office: 202-2243542. Rep. Joe Stupak should also be called at his

Michigan office: 906-228-3700 or FAX: 202-225-4744. Ask Pelosi and Reid to

appoint John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders to the Joint

Senate/House Conference Committee on Health Insurance Reform.

>

> If we are to progress we must ACT UP and make a joyful and thunderous

noise throughout the land NOW. Silence does indeed equal death for 45,000

Americans annually under the present broken system. As Bill Moyers says. " This

is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Get busy. " So email the abstaining

internet groups, call Pelosi, Reid and Stupak, call your union, church or any

group to which you belong. To quote another Minnesota boy, Bob Dylan: " Let us

stop talking falsely now, the hour's getting late. "

>

> John Iversen is an internationally known, honored and proclaimed

AIDS and health activist from Berkeley, CA, and has been HIV + for 29 years.

>

[Guest guest]

Yes These times call for Spiritual warriors and warrioresses can't be one or the

other must be both this was something Yoga Bhajan promoted

Active in our larger community. Thank you for this post

 

Blessings

Gurutej

 

Kundalini-Yoga , " John " <johniversen94702 wrote:

>

> Sat Nam todos,

>

> you can also find this call to action at:

> www.spiritualprogressives.org, thanks to Rabbi Michael Lerner

> and www.pdamerica.org (Progressive Democrats of America

>

> if the spirit of healthcare for all moves you, please forward widely

> and take the actions I request. now is the time. Blessings and

> health, Ram Das Singh (John Iversen)

>

>

> Silence = Death: A Healthcare Call to Action by John Iversen

>

> Decisions in the coming weeks will affect the delivery of healthcare in

America for decades to come. We are at a crossroads.

>

> On Thursday, October 29, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pulled Dennis

Kucinich's (D-OH) state single payer (Medicare for All) initiative amendment

from the House bill with no notice, no discussion and no vote. This is what

Pelosi's democracy looks like. Pelosi is probably well aware that Canadians

obtained their national health system province by province. God forbid states

like Vermont, Massachusetts, Minnesota and California should lead the way to a

similar system in the U.S!

>

> I was lucky enough to be born into the first American healthcare

co-operative started by local unions in Two Harbors, Minnesota in 1944, and be

covered by it for my first 21 years. The Two Harbors model was a precursor to

HMOs such as Kaiser and Medica. Recently the Two Harbors Community Clinic/First

Plan was bought out by Blue Cross as they were too small to compete. Larger

groups such as Group Health in Minneapolis also buckled under the competition.

So the Max Baucus (D-MT)/Kent Conrad (D-ND) co-op idea is a failed one and

either shows their lack of knowledge or disingenuosness to sabotage a strong

public option that includes state single payer (Medicare for All) initiatives as

supported by Kucinich, John Conyers (D-MI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

>

> As a person disabled by AIDS and arthritis in 1991 I've had the good

fortune of receiving Medicare. Every American should have access to the care I

had growing up in the first medical co-op and for the last 18 years with

Medicare.

>

> So what groups are on the ball and supporting the

Conyers-Kucinich-Sanders amendments? I've been taking attendance and here are a

few: Progressive Democrats of America (pdamerica.org), Tikkun Magazine

(tikkun.org), Califonia Nurses Association (calnurses.org), Physicians for a

National Health Program (pnph.org), alliancefordemocracy.org, Network of

Spiritual Progressives (spiritualprogressives.org), centerforpolicyanalysis.org,

healthcarenow.org, healthcareforall.org and the California State Employees

Association. Progressive media such as Democracy Now!, MSNBC, and the Ed

Schultz Show have also given the issue coverage. Local and state organizations

can be found at: healthcare-now.org and www.uhcan.org <http://www.uhcan.org>

>

> Noticeably absent from class are most labor unions, single issue groups,

all national LGBT, people of color and women's groups. They are resting on

their laurels of passing Medicare for All resolutions and then doing nothing to

back it up.

>

> What distresses me most is the steely silence of supposedly progressive

large internet groups. Here is their contact information: most notably Move On:

healthaction ; info ; act,alerts , activist@ democrats.com.

Please ask these groups to put out alerts asking folks to call Pelosi's San

Francisco office: 415-556-4862. Calls to her DC office are rerouted like a hot

potato once they ascertain you do not live in her district. As Speaker of the

House I think she owes an ear to all of us. She needs to support rather than

sabotage the movement for Medicare for All at the state level. Also consider

donating to the groups present, and boycotting those absent on this timely and

important issue.

>

>

> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is accepting calls from everyone

at his DC office: 202-2243542. Rep. Joe Stupak should also be called at his

Michigan office: 906-228-3700 or FAX: 202-225-4744. Ask Pelosi and Reid to

appoint John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders to the Joint

Senate/House Conference Committee on Health Insurance Reform.

>

> If we are to progress we must ACT UP and make a joyful and thunderous

noise throughout the land NOW. Silence does indeed equal death for 45,000

Americans annually under the present broken system. As Bill Moyers says. " This

is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Get busy. " So email the abstaining

internet groups, call Pelosi, Reid and Stupak, call your union, church or any

group to which you belong. To quote another Minnesota boy, Bob Dylan: " Let us

stop talking falsely now, the hour's getting late. "

>

> John Iversen is an internationally known, honored and proclaimed

AIDS and health activist from Berkeley, CA, and has been HIV + for 29 years.

>