Happy 48th Birthday Medicare
August 9, 2013
July 30 was the 48th anniversary of Medicare, the most successful and popular health program in America. It is based on the model of single payer financing and private health care delivery. A bill that would extend the principle of Medicare to everyone in America is HR 676, the Expanded and Improved Medicare Act.
On July 30, 4 constituents brought a Medicare birthday cake and visited Congressman Bob Brady’s district office to ask him to sign on to HR 676. After talking with his health aide and after some conversation, Congressman Brady decided to sign on to HR 676. We are grateful to the health activists who brought the cake and made the request!!
On July 30, 4 of us visited Congressman Chaka Fattah’s office and also brought a cake. We made the same request of his health aide and treated the staff to cake. Later this week, we are told, Congressman Fattah will also decide if he should support HR 676. If you live in his district, you can call his Washington DC office 202.225.4001 and ask for Brendon Cheney and ask him to tell Fattah to sign up for HR 676.
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