Senators Durbin, Leahy and Schumer just created citizensforapublicoption.com, which already has 69,722 signatures as of 7am PST.
Full text of the petition:
With nearly 50 million Americans lacking health insurance, and premiums rapidly rising, it's time to address the health care crisis in our country. All Americans deserve access to affordable, quality health care -- and today, nearly one-in-six of us don't have it.
I join Senators Durbin, Leahy, and Schumer in their efforts to pass strong health care reform legislation this year. In particular, I support the creation of a public health insurance option that would foster greater competition in the marketplace, create more choices for consumers, and lead to lower costs and better quality for all.
Please reform our health care system this year!
Signed by:
[Your name]
This is WAR, my friends. The results of inaction may well be that we're no better off than we've been since Richard Nixon, while Max Baucus enjoys years of gracious lunches with healthcare lobbyist cockroaches at Olive Garden.
Can you just imagine Senator Leahy before the cameras announcing a million signatories after only a few short days?
Make it so !!!!
UPDATE: Some commentators have mentioned that this website may well have been up for a while. I have responded as follows:
If so, it damm sure should have more than
70k signatories.
Might be the case, but I'll mention that the number just went up by a thousand since I published this diary 10 min ago. Stephanie Miller's morning show is currently promoting this petition site.
With more than 72% of polled Americans favoring the Public Option, I don't see why this number shouldn't reach one million.
UPDATE 2: A humble nod to the community I love so well . . . I am no longer a Rec List virgin. Now let's go make a difference out there !
Update 3: My thanks to NWTerriD - a DIGG link here.