Brainstorming:
We need a theme song, easy to remember on point lyrics, catch tune, keep the protestors energized and make our point clearly.
Teach-ins at local gathering places, outside of Congressional Reps. local offices, outside insurance company offices -- medical professionals and people who have been denied coverage speeches, seminar style and lectures.
Sick-ins -- again in public areas, outside Reps and Ins. Co. offices
medical pros set up mini-clinics where people w/o insurance can get consultations
Street Theater
Impromptu rallies with really impressive artistically rendered signs, singing our theme song(s), shouting slogans, open mike
Letter/postcard flooding campaigns to elected reps, government healthcare officials, insurance lobbyists, President Obama, news media, most especially groups organized to oppose healthcare reform
Also call-in campaigns to those people
Bumper stickers, lawn signs, t-shirts
more brainstorming
Here's a suggestion someone else gave on another forum:
"We need a "slogan" to turn the tide toward a demand for health care that actually works. I suggest, that criticism of the single-payer option as "socialized medicine" should be answered by saying, "Not socialized medicine, but how about civilized medicine?"
This leaves open a discussion of what "civilized medicine" might accomplish to the end that any sane person can see that what has been in place is broken and that urgent action is needed to fix it, that a simple "more of the same" approach is not rational and will not work. Then we can start talking about what would be the civilized way to provide health care."
http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/
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Comments: 24
Market pressure to reward bad, costly health care is crazy!
The whole effect of this empty measure never even gets to the cost of health care, it only addresses premium prices.
Time to get rid of the parasites known as insurance (racket) companies.
Keep big corperate out of my government!!!
Rule #1: The legislators (ALL of them, from Prez O & fam to the junior congressmen in your neighborhood...) should ALL have the save coverage.
ALL.
Just watch at what happens then.
Wilka
And, what I think is a great theme song is here found here
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Send Your Medical Bills to Max Baucus!
No ego. No more national pride.
Only national "price."
We rank at Number Thirty-Seven.
We are the 37th, in the race to give healthcare to it's citizens.
The Nations that out rank us, regarding the care it gives it's people:
Here's the list: read it, egotistical "America First Repubs" and weep:
These nations care more about it's children, than we do:
WHO rankings:
Rank Country
1 France
2 Italy
3 San Marino
4 Andorra
5 Malta
6 Singapore
7 Spain
8 Oman
9 Austria
10 Japan
11 Norway
12 Portugal
13 Monaco
14 Greece
15 Iceland
16 Luxembourg
17 Netherlands
18 United Kingdom
19 Ireland
20 Switzerland
21 Belgium
22 Colombia
23 Sweden
24 Cyprus
25 Germany
26 Saudi Arabia
27 United Arab Emirates
28 Israel
29 Morocco
30 Canada
31 Finland
32 Australia
33 Chile
34 Denmark
35 Dominica
36 Costa Rica
37 United States of America
38 Slovenia
39 Cuba
40 Brunei
41 New Zealand
42 Bahrain
43 Croatia
44 Qatar
45 Kuwait
46 Barbados
47 Thailand
48 Czech Republic
49 Malaysia
50 Poland
Put your money where your mouth is...
Wilka #38 is next.....Then, #50.....
Then?
WE ARE Number Thirty-Seven...
http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
Read it and weep.
But, Daime! We gotta save the billionaire insurance moguls! Glen Beck sez so!
Wilka