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SEND A LETTER!

Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Below is a sample letter -- but you should use your own words. If you have a personal story (involving yourself or family member or friend or co-worker) about health care, it'll make your letter even better. Visit the Letters page of your newspaper's web site for information on submitting the letter for publication.

To the Editor,

What do the Democrats holding town hall meetings and the mobs trying to disrupt the meetings have in common? No matter which side wins, millions of Americans will still go without coverage, hundreds of thousands will go into financial ruin over health care costs, and insurance CEOs will laugh their way to the bank. Don't be fooled by the Obamacare plan for 'mandates' and promises of a 'public option', which mean continued skyrocketing health care costs and huge taxpayer-funded subsidies to insurance companies.

The only real solution to the health care crisis is the single-payer plan, which covers every American regardless of income, age, or prior medical condition. Under single-payer, physicians and patients make decisions about medical care, not government or corporate bureaucracies, and everyone can choose his or her own health care provider. As GAO and Congressional Budget Office studies have shown in the past, single-payer will save billions in health care spending, because it eliminates the administrative costs, waste, and high CEO salaries of for-profit health insurance.

Single-payer could be Congress's gift to working people and businesses alike. Single-payer will boost the economy by relieving businesses large and small of the costly burden of providing health benefits.

Whether the Obama/Dem plan passes or Republicans get their way and no health care reform is passed, health insurance companies will win and the American people will lose. The health of the American people is more important than corporate profits. Let's make health care a right for everyone and pass HR 676, the single-payer bill.

Sincerely,
YOUR NAME