...over 2,600 signatures with our written petitions.

To President Obama, Congress, The Office of The Governor, The New York State Legislature, The New York City Council, and The Office of The Mayor:

There are over 1.2 million New York City residents without health insurance. Those who are insured all too often are burdened with the high costs of a for-profit health care system. Employers are routinely forced to lay off workers and close factories due to the costs of insuring their employees. But despite the price tag, the quality of our health care system is still woefully inadequate for too many New Yorkers.

We cannot afford to wait for Washington politicians and insurance company lobbyists to give us true health care reform. New York City is the financial capital of America - if we were a nation we'd have the 17th highest GDP in the world. We can lead the charge for real health care reform in this country if we take action at the state and local level.

I, the undersigned, hereby call on Congress, Albany, and the New York City Council and the Mayor to work together and pass a single-payer health care program at the national, state or local level. There are currently 400,000 uninsured Brooklynites and countless more who are underinsured. Spiraling health care costs have a crippling effect on local businesses, and we need to pass legislation that moves us away from the current for-profit, employer-based system of health insurance and towards a single-payer system if we're going to get our economy back on track. The health of our communities and the viability of our economy depend on real reform now!