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<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
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color:#364350'>John –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Thanks so much for your ongoing support.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Let me take this opportunity to give you an update as to what's
been happening in recent weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
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color:#364350'>As you all know, the disastrous Republican "health
care" proposals have, for the moment at least, been defeated. They were
defeated because millions of Americans stood up and fought back. They made
phone calls and sent emails, letting members of Congress know how they felt.
They got their friends involved in the struggle by utilizing social media. They
attended town hall meetings. They went to rallies, including some that I
attended in Michigan, Maine, Nevada, Arizona, West Virginia, Ohio, Utah,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>And in poll after poll, an overwhelming majority of the American
people were absolutely clear about their opposition to these destructive plans:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>No. We will not be throwing 32 million, 23 million, 22 million
or 16 million Americans off of health insurance in order to give tax breaks to
the rich and large corporations, and to further the right wing extremist
ideology of the Koch brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>No. We will not be cutting Medicaid by $800 billion, raising
premiums for older workers, defunding Planned Parenthood and making it almost
impossible for people with pre-existing conditions to get affordable insurance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Needless to say, while we have won at least a temporary victory
by defeating horrific Republican proposals, that is not good enough. We need to
go on the offensive, not simply remain in a defensive posture.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>The status quo is not satisfactory. Too many Americans continue
to have no health insurance. Too many are paying premiums, deductibles and
co-payments that are much too high. Too many cannot afford the outrageously
high cost of prescription drugs they need. Too many cannot gain access to high
quality primary health care or dental care, even when they have insurance. Our
goal is not complicated, and it is not radical. It is to have the United States
join every other industrialized country on earth in guaranteeing health care
for all. Health care must not be considered as a privilege or a commodity. It
is a human right to which every man, woman and child is entitled.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Our goal is to create a rational, cost-effective health care
system. Today in the United States, we are spending almost $10,000 a year per
person on health care. This is absurd and unsustainable. We must not continue a
system which is, by far, the most expensive, wasteful and bureaucratic in the
world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Our goal is to put health care dollars into disease prevention
and the provision of health care, not insurance company profits, not outrageous
salaries for health industry CEOs, not advertising, not billing, not lobbying
or campaign contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Our goal is to move this country to a Medicare-for-all,
single-payer system.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Let me be clear. This will be an enormously difficult and
prolonged struggle, and one which will require the efforts of tens of millions
of Americans in every state in this country. It will, in fact, require a
political revolution in which the American people participate in the political
process in a way that we have not seen in the recent history of our democracy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>In order to pass a Medicare-for-all, single payer system we will
be taking on the most powerful special interests in the country: Wall Street,
the insurance companies, the drug companies, the corporate media, the
Republican Party and the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. In
opposition to our efforts there will be a never-ending barrage of TV ads,
editorials, political attacks and lies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>If we are going to be successful in this struggle, we have got
to be smart – very smart. Not only do we need strong legislation (which I will
be offering shortly and an outline of which I will be sending to you), but we
need an unprecedented organizing and educational campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>How do we counter the lies and distortions against
Medicare-for-all that is sure to come? How do we make certain that all of us –
men and women, gay and straight, black, white, Latino, Asian-American, Native
American -– are in this struggle together? How do we bring young and healthy
people to stand alongside the elderly, the sick and the poor?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>The battle that we are undertaking is enormous and unprecedented
in the modern history of our country. Please send us your ideas as to how we
can best go forward. Please give us your vision of what a humane and rational
health care system looks like. Please share your experiences with the current
system. Please help us map out an effective political strategy.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%'><font size=4 color="#364350" face=Arial><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>We are in this together. We need everyone's ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:13.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#364350'>Thanks again for your support and all that you are doing.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:#364350'>In solidarity,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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