Bipartisan PA Single Payer Bill Introduced in House

Dear Healthcare Leaders:

Please extend your heartiest thanks right away to Reps. Tony Payton (tpayton@pahouse.net) and Dave Steil (dsteil@pahousegop.com ) for co-introducing the Family and Business Healthcare Security Act into the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. This is a huge step for our single-payer movement, and its significance should not be lost on anyone -- especially when you realize the degree to which certain individuals have tried to forestall our legislation while paying lip service to single-payer and our citizen lobbying efforts.

On the lobbying front, social workers on Tuesday, and medical students and medical providers on Wednesday pitched more than 100 legislators and legislative aides on the remarkable attributes of the Family and Business Healthcare Security Act. Not one approach was rebuffed; members and staff wanted to learn more; common ground was discovered even with the most conservative legislators -- all of whom recognize the same fault lines in the medical industrial complex. As always, follow up is the key to securing commitments.

Keep on organizing, speaking, writing, contributing, blogging, and educating! Now is another very good time to remind your state representative and state senator to co-sponsor (or thank them for co-sponsoring) the Family and Business Healthcare Security Act.

Also, please go check out our improved web site, where you will find new and valuable resources available to all... Plus we have upcoming meetings in Pittsburgh (this good-luck Friday the 13th) and in State College (Saturday the 21st). Details are at www.helpfundpa.org.

Yours in solidarity,

Chuck

Chuck Pennacchio
Executive Director, Health Education & Legislative Progress (HELP) Fund of PA www.helpfundpa.org
chuck@helpfundpa.org