Health Care is a Civil Right - Take Action

I'm posting a letter from Dennis KucinichDennis Kucinich with information on how you can take action to promote access to health care for all Americans, please take a few moments to send a copy to your loved ones, friends and colleagues so we can start a movement to show lawmakers in Washington we won't settle for anything less than they have. After all, we voted them into office and we pay their check so we ALL deserve the same privilege that we granted to them. A note to all politicians: Stop working for the insurance companies and work for those who voted you in!

Health Care is a Civil Right

By Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Global Research, September 9, 2009 Planetary Movement

There is only one true health care public option: Single payer. It covers everyone, all basic health care needs, with doctor of choice. No more premiums, co-pays or deductibles. All health care assets in America would become not-for-profit. The bill already exists. It is HR 676. Congressman John ConyersJohn Conyers and I wrote the bill. Our bill has the support of 85 co-sponsors in the House. And it is backed by a growing national movement of labor, doctors, and nurses. The movement needs you. Please join me for tomorrow’s national conference call at 10:00pm EDT. Please call toll-free 1-800-230-1096.

The hour has arrived to begin anew the Civil Rights Movement, this time for Health Care for All. I am calling upon you to become a force in this movement. Go to Health Care as A Civil Right at Kucinich.us to learn how you can circulate a single-payer petition and organize in your community. Please help fund this effort. Go to Kucinich.us now, contribute.

The Preamble to the United States Constitution and Article One, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution both describe an originating purpose of our United States: to promote the general welfare. Health care is a legitimate function of our government. Health care is a basic right in a Democratic society. It is no more a privilege based on ability to pay than is the right to vote, which was once accorded only to property owners.

Health care is also a moral imperative. Forty seven million Americans are uninsured. Fifty million Americans are underinsured. People are losing their homes, their jobs, their life’s savings, their retirement security and their financial health because they cannot pay medical bills, and despite this calamity Washington looks another way. We must not avert our eyes to this human suffering and this economic injustice.

Let’s prepare a response which Washington will long remember as the time when the people reclaimed their government from the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Join us. Contribute . Together, we can initiate an action plan to intervene and provide health care for all.

A National Health Care for All Conference Call from Washington, DC, at 10 pm EDT, Thursday, September 10th at 1-800-230-1096. Join us, so that we can discuss our new beginning and ways in which we can all help. When you call in and the operator asks, "what conference call?" tell the operator, "Health Care for All."

On-line petition. Please contact your lists, your family and friends. Please sign the petition for a single payer system. I will deliver the petitions directly to your Congressperson.

Petition to download, print and circulate among friends and neighbors - including an instruction sheet.
Health Care Meet-Ups. Coming Thursday September 10 2009.

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I need your help to initiate this action. If you believe, as I do, that we can and must begin a new long-term state-by-state grassroots effort to create a single-payer, not-for-profit health care system, please contribute now at Kucinich.us

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