Contact Your Legislator

You can make a big difference in just a few minutes by contacting your legislator. Oregon is on its way to achieving single payer health care, we can do it! There are important bills in the legislature for 2023 to create the UHP Governance Board, SB704 in the state Senate and HB2558 in the state House of Representatives. Your senator and representative need to know that their constituents support these important bills!

Step 1: Look up your senator and representative
Step 2: Send them a quick email or make a quick phone call to their office. If you prefer snail mail, you can do that too.
It’s that easy! ✅

How to Contact

Look Up Your Legislator
Every Oregonian has a Senator and a Representative. The legislature has made it easy to find who they are and get their contact info by giving Oregonians a look up tool. Just click the link and enter your address where it says “find address or place” near the top. Click on your state Senator or state Representative to get their office’s email and phone number.
➡️ Legislator Lookup Tool ⬅️

📩 Email Your Legislator
You can keep it short and simple, or you can give your own reasons for supporting single payer health care, or tell your own story if you want. The key is that your email is polite, and asks them to support SB704 (if they’re a senator) or HB2558 (if they’re a representative) to create the Universal Health Plan Governance Board. Not sure what to say? Here’s a template you can start with:

Hello [Representative/Senator] [name],
Please support SB704/HB2558] to create the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, because Oregon needs single payer health care. [optional: additional reasons or your story]
Thank You,
[Your name]
[Your city]

Example:
Hello Representative Rayfield,
Please support HB2558 to create the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, because Oregon needs single payer health care.
Thank you,
Jane Doe
Corvallis

📞 Call Your Legislator
You will probably be leaving a voice mail, but if you call during business hours a staff member may answer. They can be very friendly and helpful, please be friendly and polite to them! Similar to the emails above, a voicemail can be really short and simple, or you can go in to as much detail as possible. If you talk to a staff member, you can be equally short and simple and say what you were going to say in your voicemail, or go in to more detail and have a friendly conversation if you want to. Example voicemail:
“Hello Senator Wagner, my name is Jane Doe from Lake Oswego. Oregon needs single payer health care, so I’m asking you to please support SB704 to create the Universal Health Plan Governance Board. Thank you!” 📞