<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">"RootsAction, Aimee Allison" <<a href="mailto:info@rootsaction.org">info@rootsaction.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica">April 4, 2012 11:38:07 AM CDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><b>Resurrect Medicare for All</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" color="#000000" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 18.0px Helvetica"><<a href="mailto:info@rootsaction.org">info@rootsaction.org</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#80a4a4"><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 25px; padding-left: 10px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(128, 164, 164); "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td><img border="0" alt="GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header" src="cid:AE645601-F968-417C-BD22-71463518C850"></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><table width="580" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" align="left" colspan="3"><table width="228" cellpadding="8" align="right" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(5, 125, 203); border-right-color: rgb(5, 125, 203); border-bottom-color: rgb(5, 125, 203); border-left-color: rgb(5, 125, 203); background-color: rgb(234, 236, 236); margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><table width="212" cellpadding="8" style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(216, 128, 38); border-right-color: rgb(216, 128, 38); border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 128, 38); border-left-color: rgb(216, 128, 38); background-color: rgb(43, 104, 104); "><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><p style="margin-right: 5px; "><strong>A right. Not a luxury.</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-right: 5px; "><img src="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/womanandsign200.jpg" alt="sign"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JsbYLtzXVuNNstZaTsXeGz5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><br><img border="0" alt="GRAPHIC: Sign here button" src="cid:AA785644-A984-47CF-A64F-552604E496C4"></a></p><div style="margin-right: 5px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nuAlwyuIzcGZSLlqYFl0dT5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="25" height="25" border="0" align="absMiddle" alt="" style="margin-right: 5px; " src="cid:5914F77D-2546-45CE-B9E4-37B1956E22AF"><span style="font-size: smaller; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Share this action on Facebook</span></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: left; "><p style="margin-right: 5px; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tKAbX1Mq7iFpX%2FKJddfQHj5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="25" height="25" border="0" align="absMiddle" alt="" style="margin-right: 5px; " src="cid:5D0554A4-7006-4C8A-AEAA-FAF4EFDAB79D"><span style="font-size: smaller; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Share this action on Twitter</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-right: 5px; text-align: left; ">Dear C. G.,<br><br>Did you follow the recent deliberations at the Supreme Court? What may die is the individual mandate. What could be reborn is single-payer "Medicare for All." Already 11,000 have signed onto this call for a real healthcare solution. Please join us!<br><br>-------------------------<br><br>If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects the individual mandate for healthcare this summer (and even if it doesn't), we should be aware that this was never a real solution and that something better is available. We should make Congress and our state legislatures aware now.<br><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Q1p2VPd0E%2FnQiwvufSyUIz5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><b>Tell them single-payer healthcare is the way.</b></a><br><br>Most rich countries spend much less on healthcare and provide it for everyone without mandating the purchase of health insurance from private corporations. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>They use non-profit systems like single-payer that cut out the middleman, the bureaucracy, the advertising, and the profit motive.</b><br><br>Congress has the Constitutional right to pass laws "necessary and proper for carrying into execution" its powers, including providing for the "general welfare." <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Medicare and veterans' healthcare are single-payer systems that could easily be expanded to include everyone.</b> It is arguably not "necessary and proper" to require people to buy an expensive, inadequate product from a private corporation.<br><br>If the individual mandate ends, let's not lose heart. Let's seize the opportunity. States are moving ahead with single-payer, but Obama's healthcare law included measures aimed at making it harder for states to act. Vermont has passed single-payer and is struggling with these hurdles now.<br><br>An amendment to fix this was passed in House committee during the 2009 healthcare debate but then unceremoniously stripped out by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<br><br><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4y1b9BYcc1b1G29P8We8DT5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><b>Tell Congress to allow states to create single-payer now.</b></a><br><br>Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.<br><br>Signed,<br>Aimee, David, Jeff, Sarah<br>and the Roots Action Team<br><br>P.S. Our small staff is supported by contributions from people like you;<a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E50uydz3Y1CTMk%2FQpv5xYz5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; ">your donations are greatly appreciated</a>.<br><span style="font-size: smaller; "><br></span></p><p style="margin-right: 5px; "><span style="font-size: smaller; "><b>Resources</b><br><br></span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TMSr%2BhVbXzC4LGFL7LKpij5Q05p2ZjVR" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: smaller; ">The Nation: Can We Have Health Reform Without an Individual Mandate? Yes, It's Called 'Medicare for All'</span></a><span style="font-size: smaller; "><br><br></span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1JGFWibZpaeVHyL6Hsv5QD5Q05p2ZjVR" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: smaller; ">Huffington Post: Pelosi: Single-Payer Amendment Breaks Obama's Health Care Promise</span></a><span style="font-size: smaller; "><br><br></span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZEEVSKZpOkyzCh%2FsyPVh0D5Q05p2ZjVR" target="_blank" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><span style="font-size: smaller; ">New York Times: Letter on "The Health Care Mandate" by Arnold S. Relman</span></a></p></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ObED1HSrqA6QgWSmcYLSiD5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" border="0" alt="Donate button" src="cid:C3BDC5B5-2A9D-41DC-A4BC-7E4D1CC7CFAF"></a></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ux6G5XrDhE6rkbId3g3V%2FT5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" border="0" alt="Facebook button" src="cid:163A419B-941F-4937-BAD7-F856D986F426"></a></td><td bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ykMdWlfeK0bLNsorgV0czj5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img width="52" height="52" alt="Twitter button" src="cid:55A9FBCB-6A96-4F0D-9CE0-AF859F3F8151"></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="600" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td align="center"><br><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=A8ky2CA1FfWViyGbhtuWpz5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">Click here</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to unsubscribe and stop ALL email from RootsAction.</p><p style="margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">To modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile, visit your subscription management page at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bxv11eam3oRhGvmBprAyaD5Q05p2ZjVR" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; ">http://hq-salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/profile/</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.salsalabs.com/?email" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(43, 104, 104); text-decoration: none; "><img alt="empowered by Salsa" border="0" src="cid:F927E873-0876-4EE7-B9D2-BEF72F2F7D86"></a></div><img width="1" height="1" src="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/TrackImage?key=1048143023"><diaemailid='1048143023' thread="374606"></diaemailid='1048143023'></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>