Lieberman supports Universal Healthcare - for Israeli’s
The following was sent the my Senators, I urge everyone to use whatever tactics you can conceive of to stiffen the backbone of the Democratic Caucus in the Senate to pass a ‘public option’ and make sure they understand there will be consequences for their spineless approach reaching all the way to the local level!
Dear Senator,
It is imperative that you and the Democratic party realize that Senator Lieberman has absolutely no interest in helping to pass a Health Care bill of any form, he has a history of speaking with a forked tongue. The following should be noted:
Leiberman and Israeli Universal Healthcare
If Senator Lieberman is so antagonistic to Universal Healthcare then he should step forward and criticize Israel for its healthcare system and sponsor a bill to REDUCE the Billions upon Billions of dollars we give to Israel, which ends up indirectly subsidizing their healthcare. Any claim that the money we give to Israel is for defense etc misses the point, if we didn’t give them untold Billions could they afford Universal Healthcare? If the Congress can pass a law to prohibit sex education and abortion in foreign aid then Leiberman et al should step forward and sponsor a bill to reduce aid to those countries with Universal Healthcare.
From the New England Journal of Medicine – Health Care Reform 2009
The Israeli Healthcare system "involves universal entitlement to a set core of medical benefits that is based on medical conditions and indications, not on employment status, place of work, or the level of one’s mandated contributions to the system. Accordingly, the NHIL provides every Israeli resident with a basic package of health care.
Dov Chernichovsky, Ph.D.
http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/...
Note the word "mandated" in the above.
YOU need to stand up for the uninsured in this country and face down Lieberman and his ilk and that means stripping him of his chairmanship and kicking him out of the Democratic caucus. As your party historically lacks the backbone to fight a filibuster, you should use the reconciliation process to force through a health care bill. The Democratic Party’s lack of strategy and wasting the summer in thinking that the Greedy Old Party would even consent to some kind of compromise is appalling in your naivete and willingness to sacrifice principle to get a token Republican on board.
If the Democratic party cannot get a ‘public option’ in a healthcare bill it will be punished in 2010, and I will remember this when ANY Democrat is up for re-election, even though you may not be up for re-election, I for one will remember this fiasco when you do come up for re-election. I will also be voting in local elections against ANY Democrat running for office.
The fact that this President has surrounded himself with graduates of the "greedy league colleges" who prefer to bailout the crooked Wall Street bankers and sacrifice the rest of the country puts the onus on YOU and all the other Democrats in Congress to STAND UP AND FIGHT!!!!!!!!!