The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to debate Rockefeller's Amendment to the Baucus Bill that would include a strong public option in health reform.
I just sent the following email to friends and family of mine who live in states of Senate Finance Committee members. Please take a couple minutes to send this email to folks you know in the states below as well. I also created a Facebookpage. Let's get the word out!
Dear Friends,
I am writing you to ask you to make an incredibly important call to one of your U.S. Senators TODAY. One of your state's U.S. Senators (see list at the bottom) is on the very important Senate Finance Committee who will be voting TOMORROW on an amendment to the Baucus health care reform bill to include the choice of a public health insurance option, known as a "public option."
I am asking you to please take just 1 minute to call your Senator toll-free at 1-877-264-4226 and tell him or her, "I'm calling to urge you to vote YES on the Rockefeller Amendment to include a strong public option in health care reform. A public option is essential to achieve real reform that ensures quality and AFFORDABLE health care for all."
The insurance industry is spending millions of dollars a week to try to kill real reform that would include a strong public option. All three of the health reform bills passed out of the other Congressional Committees include a strong public option, but the insurance industry is trying to put its profits over our health by blocking this. Your Senator needs to hear from you TODAY so you can remind them they are elected to represent the people of America, NOT to represent the insurance industry.
Once again, please call your Senator at 1-877-264-4226 TODAY, even right now before you forget, to deliver this tremendously important message: "I'm calling to urge you to vote YES on Rockefeller's Amendment to include a strong public option in health care reform."
After you've made the call, or if you're not on the list of states below, please forward this email to people you know in the states listed below to encourage them to make the call also. The insurance industry may have the money, but we have the people power. Thanks!
Senate Finance Committee Members
* ARIZONA, Jon Kyl
* ARKANSAS, Blanche Lincoln
* DELAWARE, Thomas Carper
* FLORIDA, Bill Nelson
* IDAHO, Mike Crapo
* IOWA, Chuck Grassley
* KANSAS, Pat Roberts
* KENTUCKY, Jim Bunning
* MAINE, Olympia Snowe
* MASSACHUSETTS, John Kerry
* MICHIGAN, Debbie Stabenow
* MONTANA, Max Baucus
* NEVADA, John Ensign
* NEW JERSEY, Robert Menendez
* NEW MEXICO, Jeff Bingaman
* NEW YORK, Charles Shumer
* NORTH DAKOTA, Kent Conrad
* OREGON, Ron Wyden
* TEXAS, John Cornyn
* UTAH, Orrin Hatch
* WASHINGTON, Maria Cantwell
* WEST VIRGINIA, John Rockefeller
* WYOMING, Mike Enzi