Call your members of Congress today in support of Healthcare reform

Today, Wednesday July 8, is a national day of action for Quality, Affordable Healthcare for All. We need you to take a few minutes of your time and call your representatives to demand that they support the HELP bill that is now moving through the House of Representatives. Click to Call your Representative now below.

Click to call your member of Congress and demand quality, affordable health care!
The Mid-South Peace and Justice Center is working with Healthcare for America Now to push comprehensive healthcare reform in Washington. There is a bill moving through Congress this week that is a critical first step to achieving this. Please click on the graphic below and use our new "Click to Call" system to automatically call each of your representatives (you have three, one representative and two senators). Call today!! Or you can call toll free at 1-888-436-8427.

Who are we calling? We are going to call all Democratic House Members to ask for their support of the House bill that the three committees jointly developed and issued last week. We are going to ask Senators to support the HELP bill that now (as of today) includes a provision about the public health insurance plan.


What's our message? Two points:

1. What do we want? Health Care that looks like the House and Senate HELP bills that includes all the provisions the majority of us care about, including choice of a public health insurance plan and real affordability.

2. When do we want it? Now. We can't wait! The public urgently wants reform and expects Congress to fix the health care problem by the end of the year!

Background:
President Obama and leaders in Congress have laid out a very ambitious timeline for passing bills off the floor of the House and Senate. According to this timetable, the House and Senate would pass bills by the end of July that would then go to conference immediately following the August recess. That means that there is less than one month for the bills to go through the amendment and debate process and a vote of each chamber-there are many steps to pack into one month, especially since there's no bill out of the Senate Finance Committee yet. We are going to have to build extreme urgency to help drive this timetable from the field.