Published: August 24th 2009 - at 12:27 pm

100k sign NHS petition aimed at Americans


by Chris Barnyard    

Over hundred thousand people have signed a petition aimed at Americans to stop them spreading lies about the NHS.

Organised by the campaign group Avaaz.org – it exhorts American legislators to “ignore the myths about health systems in our country and others that are being pushed by US healthcare companies”.

So far the group has collected over 100,000 signatures that will be sent to the US Congress.

The British health care system isn’t perfect, but we would never trade it for the one in the US.

Yet conservative US politicians and greedy insurance companies are pushing lies about the NHS as a way to scare the American public off national health care – risking Obama’s whole movement for change and threatening his majority in Congress.

Sign the petition below and tell friends – huge numbers of us will cause a stir in the US media and affect the debate, and Avaaz will deliver our message to wavering US Senators this month before they cast their vote in Congress.

Click here to read and sign the petition


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1. Shatterface

Well meaning, but I suspect it will backfire like The Guardian’s letters to Republican voters a while back.

So what of the 70,000 who have signed the petition for the PM to resign? The 300,000 who signed to “reduce fuel duty to bring fuel prices back to an acceptable level” and not forgetting the 1.8m who signed to “scrap the planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy”.

They won’t care, they are too busy fighting for the status quo.

Well meaning, but as Shatterface suggests, counter productive.

Ideally, US citizens need the facts to understand that they are being under served. The haze of US politics means that simple facts are insufficient, and you need to fight propaganda with better propaganda. American propaganda.


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