Dear Health Care Reform Advocate,

A little about what a Single Payer health system would look like:

•Everybody contributes to fund health care based on ability to pay – No financial barriers.
•All medically necessary care is covered.
•Simplified administration saves money.

•Choice of physician and treatment.
•Focused on preventative and timely care.

•Transparency and Accountability to the public.
•It would create a unified risk pool – everybody in, nobody out!

Single payer health care legislation has come to Oregon. The ​​Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Act has been submitted to the House by Representative Michael Dembrow as HB 3510 and to the Senate by Senator Chip Shields as SB 888. You can learn more about these bills at ​http://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2011/HB3510​.

House Health Care Committee Co-Chairs Mitch Greenlick (D) and Jim Thompson (R) both agreed to give HB 3510 a hearing, for which they deserve our thanks. Senate Health Care Committee Chair Laurie Monnes-Anderson has not scheduled SB 888 for a hearing.

You can provide critical help to Oregon’s single payer legislation in several ways. Please consider at least one of these contributions to health care reform in Oregon:

 Sign our petition! Please add your own story to the petition as well.

Or send your own E-mail or make a phone call to your state representative and state senator (​http://www.leg.state.or.us/writelegsltr) telling them you support single payer health care and you want them to support these two bills. Let them know that health care reform is an important way to reduce our state budget deficit, create jobs, improve Oregon’s business climate, and provide health care for all Oregonians.

This is a unique opportunity to make a difference. Please do what you can to give this legislation the attention it deserves from our legislators, our media, and our neighbors.

Thank you!

Sisters Of The Road