Dear Healthcare-NOW! Supporter:

Dozens of people held a sit-in at Senator Lieberman's Capitol Hill office this morning to demand that Senator Lieberman pledge to stop taking health insurance company campaign contributions and free up funds so they can be used to pay for patient care. For 30 minutes, demonstrators requested to talk to Senator Lieberman and chanted "Patients not Profits, Medicare for All." Nine members of the Mobilization for Health Care for All sat down in the office lobby until forcibly removed by the police.

Since 1989, only 10 other current senators have brought in more cash from the health sector than Lieberman, who has collected $2.6 million in that time.

Take Action NOW!

1. Sign the petition urging Lieberman to stop taking insurance money. Click here to sign the petition now. Urge everyone you know to sign the petition.

2. Make a donation to support the Mobilization. Donate for bail money for those sitting in Lieberman's office.

3. Call your representative to support the Medicare for All amendment that is being put forward by Congressman Weiner.

Since beginning just over one month ago thousands have signed up to participate in "Patients before Profits" sit-ins and over 920 have signed up willing to risk arrest. By the end of this week the Mobilization will have held 32 sit-ins in 28 different cities with more than 150 arrests and over 220 risking arrest. We started out wanting 100 people to risk arrest at "patients before profits" sit-ins and now more than 920 have done so. The Mobilization needs to continue to grow in order to make the impact the people desperately need - Medicare for All.

Thank you for your support. Please take action now.

Thanks for all that you do,
Healthcare-NOW! National Staff

For the World March for Peace and Nonviolence, the largest human peace sign in the world was performed in Lucena, Philippines, by 12,000 students of the QUEZON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL on October 7th, 2009.

In a matter of hours, the House of Representatives will vote on the issue of abortion in the new health system.

Congress is set to vote on abortion in the new health system TODAY.

We can’t let the anti-choice movement win, because women could lose access to abortion care.

Contact your member of Congress right now to help us stop this attack. 
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Women’s coverage for abortion services rests in the hands of Congress – and that vote is going down to the wire. 

Contact your member of Congress immediately to help us defeat this attack -

This amendment would have devastating consequences for women.

Right now, more than 85 percent of private-insurance plans cover abortion services. That’s the status quo.

The proposal we’re fighting, led by Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan and Republican Rep. Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania, would make it virtually impossible for private insurance companies that participate in the new system to offer abortion coverage to women.

As a result, women who currently have a private plan that covers abortion care could lose that coverage.

We can’t let women lose access to abortion care. Contact your rep today.  https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Rep. Stupak’s proposal is dangerous and based on outright lies.

Here are the facts: The health-care-reform bill maintains the system we have now. It would allow insurance companies to decide what services to cover, and it blocks federal money from paying for abortion. Yet, Rep. Stupak is jeopardizing the entire health-care reform effort by making it virtually impossible for health plans to offer abortion coverage in the new system. 

Now we need you. Ask your member of Congress to oppose Rep. Stupak’s anti-choice amendment. 

The vote will be extremely close. One vote could make the difference.

Thank you for speaking up for women’s access to abortion today.

Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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My note; this bill passed with the Amendment intact. A few votes were gained by doing so. I think the strategy is to get the Senate version to pass without it, and then reconcile the two versions by eliminating this amendment on the House side... 

Even if it passes both sides with this kind of anti abortion amendment, I think the public pressure from women who lose something they fought for many years to get, will force legislators to change it even after it becomes law.. So in the end, all works for the good, in God. 

"A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that of the 36 children who died from H1N1 from April to August, six had no chronic health conditions. But all of them had a co-occurring bacterial infection.".....