Two over Ten, Will you Do It?

Folks, how much time can you spare to make a real difference? Can you spare two hours over ten weeks? Can you? As you may know, Health Care for All NC is a non-partisan, non-profit group that wants to give the citizens of North Carolina an Up or Down Vote on whether Health Care is a right or a privilege.

[ ] FOR [ ] AGAINST

Constitutional amendment providing that health care is a fundamental right.

Health Care for All NC supports no particular plan for implementing universal health care, that will be a decision made by the best and brightest that our state government pulls together for that purpose. Public-private hybrid, Massachusetts forced care, single-payer. All of these are options.

Health Care for All NC has members throughout the state. Physicians who are members of Physicians for a National Health Program, small business owners who have faced the decision to stay open or to give health care to their employees, retirees who want everyone to have the quality of care they do through Medicare, and church groups who believe that thousands dying from a lack of insurance is a moral outrage. In Two over Ten, all of these people come together, asking you to participate over the next ten weeks in educating your legislators.

If you can spare two hours over ten weeks, then please follow me to the rest of the article.

Thank you.

This education plan is simple.  Through non-partisan groups, networks of "educators" have been created throughout the state.  The goal of each "educator" is to establish a core group of FIFTEEN friends and acquaintances who will agree to help educate their local House member.  Each week a particular action item letter will be emailed to these core groups of supporters.  YOU can become a part of one of these groups, through BlueNC, or you can form your own group of fifteen friends.

When each individual emails the action item letter to their legislator, they will also BCC a member of Health Care for All.  Here is the key.  When that person receives your emails, he will make a note, and then this Raleigh group will follow up your action with a personal, one-on-one visit to that legislator.  They will deliver supporting materials for whatever that week's action item might be.

We here at BlueNC have already made a difference, new sponsors and co-sponsors have stepped up for Health Care for All.  Others have expressed their support for the bill, or have asked for more information, including several Republican House members that were originally skeptical!

Who among our legislators have agreed that agreed that North Carolinians deserve an Up or Down Vote on whether health care is a right or a privilege? This is the latest listing I have seen, but I note that several known supporters are not on it.

Primary Sponsoring Representative

Verla Insko
(Orange)

Linda Coleman
(Wake)

Pricey Harrison (Guilford)

Ty Harrell
(Wake)

Co Sponsoring Representatives (23 so far)

Alice Bordsen
(Alamance)

Cullie Tarleton
(Ashe/Watauga)

Annie Mobley
(Bertie/Hartford/Gates/Perquimans)

Susan Fisher
(Buncombe)

Walter Church
(Burke)

Alice Underhill  (Craven/Pamlico )

Mary McAllister
(Cumberland)

Rick Glazier
(Cumberland)

Margaret Dickson
(Cumberland)

Paul Luebke
(Durham)

Larry Hall
(Durham)

Jean Farmer-Butterfield
(Edgecombe/Wilson)

Lucy Allen
(Franklin/Halifax/Nash)

Earl Jones
(Guilford)

Maggie Jeffus
(Guilford)

Angela Bryant
(Halifax/Nash)

Beverly Earle
(Mecklenburg)

Pete Cunningham
(Mecklenburg)

Melanie Wade
Goodwin (Montgomery/Richmond)

Thomas Wright
(New Hanover/Pender)

W.A. “Winkie” Wilkins
(Orange/Person)

Jenifer Weiss
(Wake)

Larry Bell
(Sampson/Wayne)

So, how do you become involved?  How do you become the next "educator" for our legislature?  First, if you want to start your own network of 15 friends, neighbors, activists, you can email the man behind the plan.  Second, if you want to work within the BlueNC network, you can email me.

Over the next ten weeks, we have the opportunity to fight the corporate noise machine that has millions of dollars to spend, which it will, to kill Health Care for All.  Even as uninsured children continue to die, they will fight for their "right" not to insure them, and they will battle against your right to have health care.  Join in Two over Ten and show that people, not profits, run this state.

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