Last Sunday's Social Justice Forum on single-payer healthcare was a rousing success! We learned about the significant administrative and economic problems caused by the current private health insurance system and how a single-payer system could improve efficiency and reduce waste while providing quality healthcare for every American. Equally important, we learned what each one of us can do to help make single-payer healthcare a reality.
Tell our story.
Many of us have professional experience in the healthcare and insurance industries. Many of us have had problems with our personal health insurance (or lack thereof) or know someone who has. Legislators who are advocating for single-payer healthcare need to know we support this issue. And those who aren't need to know it too. It’s a tough battle in Salem and Washington D.C.!
Here are some convenient links for contacting your representatives. Do it now!
U.S. House of Representatives - (202) 224-3121
Suzanne Bonamici (D) - District 1 - Beaverton - https://bonamici.house.gov/contact/email
Earl Blumenauer (D) - Oregon District 3 – Portland - https://blumenauerforms.house.gov/forms/writeyourrep
Kurt Schrader (D) - District 5 – Canby - https://schrader.house.gov/contact
U.S Senate
Jeff Merkley (D) - www.merkley.senate.gov/contact
313 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-3753
Ron Wyden (D) - www.wyden.senate.gov/contact
221 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
(202) 224-5244
Oregon Legislature - Follow this link and put in your address to find and contact your state legislator: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/FindYourLegislator/leg-districts.html