[Peace-discuss] FW: [IllinoisSinglePayer] what's up with Bernie Sanders and a Senate single-payer bill?

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On Thursday, May 18, 2017 2:53 PM, "Anne Scheetz annescheetz at gmail.com [IllinoisSinglePayer]" <IllinoisSinglePayer at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Sanders can always choose to issue a public statement giving a date when he will introduce a bill.

I don't consider my phone calls a source of accurate information, rather as part of a campaign of pressure. I would argue that no one knows for sure what Sanders will do. We do know that he must be getting pressured against moving single-payer forward. It's up to us to exert pressure from our side, for what we want.

If the HC-N! folks give us reasons why any kind of demonstration will be harmful, I will listen to them. 

These are the practical difficulties I can think of with a demonstration:

*	Some of us will be inside, some outside; but we don't know yet exactly who will be going--some people who applied have not been accepted.
*	As Sonja points out, the venue doesn't lend itself to visibility, and I don't think we know what part of the facility the conference will use
*	We don't know when Sanders will speak; in fact, I don't think any of the schedule has been published
*	A note of thanks I got from HC-N! for a contribution included something about a "single-payer track" at the conference but we don't know any details
*	It's difficult to talk to people about a date and time when we don't know the schedule

I am interested in opinions of all Illinois activists. 

Anne

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Bill Bianchi pdachicago at gmail.com [IllinoisSinglePayer] <IllinoisSinglePayer@ yahoogroups.com <mailto:IllinoisSinglePayer at yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

Well it sounds like he won't introduce a bill before the summit.  I think it would be entirely appropriate to circulate flyers reminding everyone that Bernie promised to do so, and we're looking forward to it with great anticipation.  

My two cents

Bill Bianchi

Illinois Single Payer Coalition

773-636-1927 cell

773-935-3346

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Anne Scheetz annescheetz at gmail.com [IllinoisSinglePayer] <IllinoisSinglePayer at yahoogrou ps.com <mailto:IllinoisSinglePayer at yahoogroups.com> > wrote:

There is some discussion going on among individuals over how to respond to the fact that Bernie Sanders has not yet introduced a Senate single-payer bill. (Emails as well as rumors about such a bill have been circulating since at least the end of March.) I believe this issue requires discussion by anyone who might  have an opinion. 

More specifically, about whether we should take any action, if he has neither introduced the bill nor committed to a date, by the People's Summit, June 9 to 11 in Chicago, at which he is scheduled to speak. We discussed this at the recent ISPC Chicago meeting. 

As you know, an email went out today asking people to call Sanders' office to say we want him to introduce a companion bill to HR 676. (Also to call our US representatives.) The same Take Action is posted here <http://ilsinglepayer.org/take-action-not-gop-health-plan-medicare-all>  on the ISPC website. Two responses: 

Justine James authorized me to share this: 

Just called Bernie Sanders office and was told, in an exasperated tone, that Senator Sanders will be introducing a counterpart to HR 676. Was told that no date for intro would be made public as "...wouldn't the pharmacy companies like to have that information."

I called today as well, and was told that Sanders will introduce a single-payer bill; it won't be a companion bill to HR 676 because Sanders "believes in a different way of writing legislation;" and they don't know when the bill will  be introduced "because the legislative calendar is private." This is the second time I have been told they don't know a date. 

Other people have information and opinions that I don't have permission to share, but that I hope they will contribute to this discussion.

It is too early to decide for sure what we will do at the June conference. (Some people will be inside and some will be outside.) But I believe we should be discussing it; it's only three weeks away. 

When we decided on April 1 on a campaign to persuade Dick Durbin to sign on as a co-sponsor to the Sanders bill and then work for it, we expected it to be introduced in May. That hasn't happened obviously. 

Anne

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