Congress is getting on board for health care!
An update to our congressional calling campaign, in numbers:
- 50% - the percentage of Congress that has received phone calls about health care (251 Members, to be exact)
- 17 - the number of Members who have officially declared they are on our side for quality, affordable health care for all
- 19 - the number of calls it took for those 17 Members of Congress to declare they are on our side
As of today, these are the Members of Congress who have signed on:
Sen. Barbara Milulski, MD -The first to sign on!
Sen. Tom Harkin, IA
Rep. Mike Ross, AR
Rep. Marion Berry, AR
Rep. Raul Grijalva, AZ
Rep. Henry Waxman, CA
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, IL
Rep. Alcee Hastings, FL
Rep. William Jefferson, LA
Rep. Keith Ellison, MN
Rep. Bill Pascrell, NJ
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, NY
Rep. Brian Higgins, NY
Rep. John Hall, NY
Rep. Adam Smith, WA
Rep. Tammy Baldwin, WI
Rep. Steve Kagen, WI
If you live in these people’s states or districts, you can give them a call and thank them. But the real thanks goes to you.
None of this would be possible without folks calling their elected officials and demanding health care for all. Even though we are setting up in-person meetings with Members of Congress, both in their home states and up on Capitol Hill, they will not listen unless they hear from their constituents. As noted above, a few calls goes a long way - only 19 were needed to get the above 17 Members of Congress to sign on.
Take a few moments and make a few quick calls. And when you’re done, spread the word by telling your friends and family about this campaign.
More Congressional sign-ons are coming, and the more you call, the more people we’ll have on our side for the real fight in 2009.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
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- August 28, 2008
McSame's Approach:
McSame's Universal Health Care Approach:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR200804...
Tax employer-subsidized health insurance as income. This will make Joe Sixpack less likely to want employer-subsidized health care (guess who wins? Yup. The ten-figure CEOs).
Then offer up "private" health care policies to all citizens. But without work group coverage requirements, those with chronic conditions will not be able to afford health insurance, and will drop out (who wins? The insurance companies, who want to take your money and give you nothing in return--and their ten-figure CEOs).
Then, when gas goes to $7.50 a gallon after the hurricane bearing down on the Gulf (or after McSame bomb bomb bomb-bomb bombs Iran), those who have shoestring budgets will have to choose between eating, buying gas to drive to work, or paying the health insurance premiums (who wins? The insurance companies, since once the poor drop out of the market, they can charge more for their product--and their ten-figure CEOs).
Then there are all of those who do not have the personal organization skills or the access to the market to research the individual health care choices. They will wind up paying out the nose for some assigned risk insurance policy that gives them essentially nothing (who wins? The ten-figure CEOs again).
And the bottom line is, all of those excluded from McSame's private health care insurance system will wind up in your local ER for their health care, and those of us who pay taxes will wind up paying for all their health care (who wins? The private health care organizations who can turn away people with no insurance).
Bottom line: Crash McSame's plan is socialized health care--just at the local level instead of the Federal level, since you and I and everyone else who pays taxes will have to foot the bill.
And by the way, under this scenario, don't have an accident, since your ER will be too busy treating flu cases to tend to your shattered pelvis. Like Governor Lamm of Colorado (Repugnican) used to say, the sick should die and get out of the way.
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By blogbobAugust 28, 2008 - 2:46pm