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Submitted by James on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 8:36am
Have you contacted Senator Hagan yet? Please do. And please ask her to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem when it comes to addressing our nation's health care needs.
Thanks to Steve for digging up Kay's own words from a live blog here at BlueNC:
I will absolutely work toward the goals of universal coverage. First of all, we are going to have a Democratic President in November, and when we do, we’ll finally be able to address and get results on one of the biggest, if not THE biggest domestic policy issue for millions of Americans.Since 2001, premiums for family health coverage have increased 78%, and now an estimated 47 million Americans are uninsured. Washington is broken.
We need to change the way we deliver health care by standing up to special interests and negotiating lower drug prices and lower premiums. We need to focus on prevention, chronic disease management and implement cost-saving mechanisms such as electronic records.
I’m not going to sit here and make a declaration that we’ll have universal health care plan over night – we won’t. But if you send people like me to Washington, we’ll get there.
Yes, please do.
The staffer who will answer the phone is your equal. Speak to him or her as you would to a coworker.
Just tell the staffer you want Senator Hagan to support a real public option in the Senate health care reform bill. You can say more, but it doesn't have to be more than that. You might throw in that you would jump for joy or do a jig or throw a party if Senator Hagan (or SOMEBODY, fer goshsakes) would actually FIGHT FOR a real public option.
And there is no rule says you can only call once ...
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Goethe
Received a reply...
I did get a 'mass mailed' e-message this morning, which was pretty much non-committal on where she stands. Hopefully, she will see the light! This is a gigantic issue that every office holder should have formed a position by now. Any avoidance of a public option or single payer will be a continuance of paying the racketeers in the insurance industry, and a continuing upward spiral of costs to all of us.
Pretty much non-committal?
I read it as totally non-committal.
Teen girl discovers supernova
How cool is this? Some happy science news for a Friday!
I wonder if that would ever happen in NC
Seeing as we can't seem to graduate more than a half dozen physics teachers in a given year.
I always wanted to be the avenging cowboy hero—that lone voice in the wilderness, fighting corruption and evil wherever I found it, and standing for freedom, truth and justice. - Bill Hicks
I've emailed, called and faxed.
Hagan HAS to know she's being measured on this by her constituents. If she votes against or doesn't support a public option I will work extra hard to see she is defeated in the next election.
Stan Bozarth
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." Frederic Bastiat
Measuring Hagan
Stan,
Don't forget to tell her in your emails, calls, and faxes that "she's being measured on this by her constituents."
Not to worry...in big bold letters that even a Senator
can read.
Stan Bozarth
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." Frederic Bastiat
Faison's weird "logic"
Governing by anecdote
I'm sure Faison means well, but this kind of "logic" simply isn't. We expect better than this, Mr. Bill. Way better.
I went to a school with no AC
sorry heat, leaky ceilings and no computers. I think Faison may be on to something with this idea. We could save gobs of money. We'd have a whole generation of basically uneducated kids, but we'd save a lot of money ... and really, what's more imporant here, huh?
/ snarks and rolling eyes
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Goethe
WTF is a "public option"??
at least Conyers H.R. 576 has some specific language about "Medicare 4 All.
is there any evidence that the workaday majority of Americans favor a "public option" over single payer?
Still looking for evidence that Congress
gives a frak what the majority of Americans favor ... unless, of course, one is looking to deny a minority equal rights.
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Goethe
Here's the best explanation
Here's the best explanation I've seen, but I don't think it really applies in the current debate. The two terms have become conflated.
I personal prefer single payer, which is not a public option but a public plan.