Welcome!

In spring, 2009, the Congress finally passed a health care reform bill.  The Affordable Care Act  going to help many people.  It’s going to disappoint many people.  It isn’t enough.  Not near enough.  We’ve got to keep on fighting. 

It will be a three-track fight.

In early 2011, Rep. John Conyers will reintroduce HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act in the House of Representatives.  We’ve got to keep the heat on our congressmen and women to get this kind of legislation passed.  That’s track one.

The Affordable Care Act has a provision in it, in section 1332, intended to allow states to create their own health care systems so long as they’re as good as the federal system.  That section has problems.  We’ve got to work with Congress to get that section of the Act improved.  That’s track two..

And track three?  National single-payer may be years away, but several states have begun to develop state single-payer laws.  We need to listen to voices around our state, listen to our own state’s needs and to our own particular political realities, and to develop single-payer legislation that will be right for Alabama.

We started as a small group but we’ll all get nowhere staying small. To be heard, we have to join with thousands of like-minded people, businesses, organizations.  We have to speak with a million voices.  So here’s where you come in. 

Join us in the coalition.  There are buttons on this page that make it easy. 

But that’s just the beginning.  We need your help to spread the word.  Help us find even more members. We need everyone who thinks as we do, that health care is a human right!  We need everyone to help us find and fight for what’s right for Alabama!  We need YOUR help to find us members!

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