If you’re tired of being the only industrialized country without universal healthcare, sick of medical bills being the reason most people in this country file for bankruptcy, or just fed up with all these drug ads or climbing insurance rates, today is your day to be HEARD.

Health care is high on the list of priorities during the current Congressional session, and President Obama is in favor of a public health care plan. Whether you’re for or against that option, chances are you are for SOME kind of change in our healthcare system. (Around here, we’re fond of saying that our country’s national health plan is “Don’t get sick.”)

Did you know that there are countries where the national health care plan covers everyone—not just children or the disabled or the elderly, but everyone? You walk in, get your treatment, and walk out. No copays, no HMO wrangling, no deciding between going to the doctor or paying for gas that week (a place where many of us have been).

But wait, there’s more—prescription drugs are pretty cheap in many other countries, too. You may have even crossed the border to buy meds in Canada, but did you know that many other countries charge only about $5 for most prescriptions?

Not only that, but all of the drug advertisements we’re bombarded with daily are absent in a lot of these countries, too—why do we need to know about all of these drugs (which list side affects like stroke and death, by the way) anyway? Are we so horribly sick and mutated that we need all of these drugs so much? (I also read the other day, funnily enough, that one of the biggest pet peeves of doctors is when a patient schedules a visit just to ask for a specific drug—as if he or she went to medical school and knows exactly what pile of pills his or her body needs!)

Anyhow, for all of these reasons and more, most of us have some kind of beef with the health care system in America. Today is National Call Congress Day for Health Care, so make sure you do just that.

The House and Senate are adjourning in August, so your comments are needed right away. Drug makers, insurance companies, and other private health companies have spent $126 million this year on lobbyists to bend the collective ear of our Congress people toward their own interests. We may not have those millions, but we do have millions of voices we can use. You can make a call to your Congress member here.