People in Minnesota and Wisconsin have eagerly signed the statement we are circulating calling for a no-fee public health care system that would be financed by cutting the military budget.
Eight out of every ten people have been signing with many making contributions and offering to help spread the word.
Below is the statement people are being asked to sign:
Health care has two purposes:
1. Keep people healthy
2. Get people well when sick
Join our campaign for real Health Care Reform now!
What we want:
No-fees/No premiums
Comprehensive (cradle to grave)
All-inclusive (general, dental, eyes, physical therapy)
Universal (everybody in; nobody out)
Publicly funded
Publicly administered
Publicly delivered
The United States is the wealthiest country in the world.
Any country that can afford to finance three wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan at the same time; subsidize the Israeli killing machine to the tune of tens of billions of dollars a year; and maintain a vast global network trying to dominate the world with over 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil dotting the globe... Can afford to provide a first-rate, world-class, free public health care system for its own people. Let’s get our priorities straight and build 800 public health care centers across the United States..
Count me in.
I agree and will only vote for, and support, candidates for public office who will pledge, in writing, to support a public health care system as described above. I will talk to my family, friends, neighbors and fellow workers. No public health care; no vote--- simple as that:
Name: _______________________________________________________ / / contact me to help
Address: ___________________________________________________________
City: _____________________________________________________________
State:_____________
Phone: _________ _________ __________________
E-mail: _____________________________________________________
Congressperson/Congressional District:
_________________________________________________________
Health care reform now! Everybody in. All the profiteers out.
Initiated by:
Minnesotans for Peace & Social Justice
Health Care for People Not For Profits (Wisconsin)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (Kent County, Michigan Chapter)
Mark Twain Readers Circle (Missouri)
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
Funded in part by the:
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council & your generous contributions.
Contact and make checks payable to:
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-554
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net
I would encourage people to use this as the basis for their own Letters to the Editors of local newspapers and to create their own leaflets, petitions, etc... let's get a good public discussion going.
Below is the Letter to the Editor I have been submitting... so far the Grand Rapids Herald in Grand Rapids, Minnesota has agreed to publish the letter. They called me on my cell phone to thank me for dropping the letter off assuring me it will be published:
Letter to the Editor; submitted for publication.
Our country is embroiled in controversy and debate over health care reform. Focus on the purpose of health care has been lost. Health care has two purposes:
1. Keep people healthy.
2. Get people well when sick.
Our public officials squander our limited and scarce resources--- during a period of a crumbling economy--- financing wars in three countries; subsidizing the Israeli military machine; and spending trillions of dollars financing 800 U.S. military bases on foreign soil dotting the globe; and then they tell us there is no money for health care. Instead, we should be building 800 public health care centers stretching out across the United States providing a public health care system which includes:
• No-fees/No premiums
• Comprehensive (cradle to grave)
• All-inclusive (general, dental, eyes, physical therapy)
• Universal (everybody in; nobody out)
• Publicly funded
• Publicly administered
• Publicly delivered
The United States is the wealthiest country in the world.
We can afford to provide a first-rate, world-class, free public health care system for our own people--- if we get our priorities straight.
We need health care reform based upon: Everybody in; all the profiteers out.
Health care is supposed to be about people, a human right; not about profits.
Representing workers employed in smoke-filled casinos suffering from cancers and heart & lung problems, I know a little something about why we need health care reform now.
Alan L. Maki
Director of Organizing,
Midwest Casino Workers Organizing Council
58891 County Road 13
Warroad, Minnesota 56763
Phone: 218-386-2432
Cell: 651-587-5541
E-mail: amaki000@centurytel.net