So, you actually believe that a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION (as part of health care reform) is dead? Isn't that what all the
talking heads in the MEDIA are telling you? Do you realize that THEY, and also many members of CONGRESS are being bankrolled by the FOR-PROFIT GREED-MONGERS of the health care industry?
The promise of REAL REFORM, including a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION, is only dead if *WE THE PEOPLE* accept that as a fact. Some in CONGRESS actually are still willing to do the work which AMERICANS sent them to CONGRESS to do... and they have called upon Senator Harry Reid to include, and PASS the "public option" through the "reconciliation" process. There are some 54 U.S. Senators who support such a move, if only they would be allowed the opportunity (thus far denied to them) to VOTE on such a measure. It only takes 51 Senators to PASS this measure, through the hoops & hurdles afforded to them, via reconciliation.
Even after being told the PUBLIC OPTION is dead, and after losing Senator Kennedy's seat to a republiCON... there is still HOPE ... but, *YOU* must do your part! Call, Email, and Write to your elected officials... DO IT TODAY (and tomorrow, and every "tomorrow" until they listen)! While you are at it:
SIGN THIS LETTER -- in support of the Polis/Pingree petition for REID to pass the PUBLIC OPTION via reconciliation (as of yesterday, there were FORTY THREE members of the HOUSE who have signed it) ... and CALL your congressional reps (in both the HOUSE and SENATE) telling them to also STAND UP for the AMERICAN PEOPLE! This is no time for APATHY... DO IT NOW!
I called Rep. Glenn Nye's (D-VA) office, asking for *HIM* to not only sign this letter, but to very PUBLICLY announce his support for a "robust public option" to be signed into law as a part of HCR. I made it very clear that during his 2008 run for office, I strongly supported him, and voted for him (to throw that rubber-stamping Thelma Drake, republiCON, to the curb)!
I'm asking that each of you
CALL (once you have selected your state/zipcode and your Rep.'s page loads, clicking the CONTACT link will reveal their LOCAL office+phone number as well as that of their Washington D.C. office)
your congressional rep ... and insist that they too do what I am asking Rep. Nye to do.And while you are at it:
Contact BOTH of your U.S. SENATORS, and the WHITE HOUSE, and tell them that you will settle for nothing less than a ROBUST PUBLIC OPTION as part of health care reform!