Send a Note to Your State House & Senate Representatives
Send an email
Writing to elected officials really matters! They tally up how many calls and letters/ postcards they get on a subject.
Ready to Act?
Together, we can build a healthcare system that works for everyone in Michigan and across the country.
How it Works
- Find your Congressional Representative and Senator.
- Copy our sample email text.
- Paste the text and send them your email.
- Share the campaign with your friends and family to multiply your impact.
Make a phone call
Calling elected officials really matters! They tally up how many calls they get on a subject.
Ready to Act?
Together, we can build a healthcare system that works for everyone in Michigan and across the country.
How it Works
- Find your Congressional Representative and Senator’s phone number.
- Use the sample email as a script for your call.
Dear (elected representative name here),
I am writing to you today to ask for your support for ( Choose from list of Bills in Michigan and US House and Senate). Healthcare in the USA and Michigan costs too much and provides too little coverage. I have come to believe that this situation is due to the financial complexity, administrative complexity and the profiteering created by the commercial insurance takeover of American healthcare.
Costs are out of control and over half of Americans are now skipping care due to costs and other system based barriers to care. Our pay is shrinking as more and more goes to health insurance coverage. Loss of a job means loss of your healthcare. Serious illness now includes the risk of personal bankruptcy due skimpy coverage with ever increasing copays and deductibles. Doctors and nurses are being demoralized by the waste of their time trying to get care preauthorized and by the costs and complexity of the billing a multitude of insurers all with their own billing processes. Patients are getting less time and less attention than the computerized record documentation needed to bill. There is less and less choice of physician or hospital due to network restrictions that often result in surprise bills. The more market forces have been brought to bear the worse the healthcare system has performed. Despite spending twice what other rich nations per person, our outcomes are worse than countries who cover everyone with greater simplicity and half the cost.
(Personal story here if you wish. The personal story should relate to the problems noted above.)
What we need is U.S.A. healthcare: Universal, Simple and Affordable.
There should be one universal and simple set of billing rules for the hospitals and doctors with everybody in and nobody out. Multiple studies by health economists and the CBO have shown that this simplicity will save as much as 10-15% of our healthcare dollars now wasted on administrative complexity and profiteering. The money saved is enough to provide everyone affordable comprehensive coverage, eliminate copays and deductibles, allow complete choice of doctor and hospital, keep research and technology advances fully funded and still save tens of millions annually at the state level and tens of billions nationally.
I am appealing to you to study our possible solutions and support legislation to cure our healthcare woes here in Michigan and nationally. I am trusting you as my representative to inform yourself about the solutions offered by legislative action and to support this legislation as my representative. My vote will depend on it.
Sincerely,
(Name and address)
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