Unlike Stabenow, not a current Dem officeholder. Unlike either of the Edwardses, has organized grassroots activists on health care as an issue, not in the context of a campaign for anything.
Bradley is a good option as well, given his support of single payer.
http://archimedesmovement.org/Founded in January, 2006 by former Oregon governor John Kitzhaber, the Archimedes Movement works to engage Americans in solving the biggest challenges we face today. We're starting with health.
Each day more Americans are at risk of losing their access to health care. This challenge requires an American solution that invests in our health and guarantees all families affordable, quality health care. The Archimedes Movement is creating the momentum for this fundamental change.
Reframing the Health Care Debate
The mission of the Archimedes Movement is to create a new space for civic engagement outside of our traditional legislative and governance structures so that we can work on solutions to the common problems we face. We're starting with the crisis in the U.S. health care system.
Our health care system was built around policies and programs put in place during the last century. And while they made sense at the time they were adopted, the economic, demographic and natural environment in which they operate has changed dramatically over the years but these polices and programs have not evolved -- continuing to reflect the realities of the past not the challenges of the future.
And the outdated structure of our health care system is protected within the political process by powerful economic interest deeply invested in the status quo. And maintaining these outdated structures increasingly depends on the unsustainable consumption of financial resources that rightly belong to future generations.
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