I just took the opportunity of responding to the OFA's latest ATM email to pen a short letter to the president. While not as eloquent and supportive as Teddy Kennedy's final letter to President Obama, it contains my thoughts and now it's on record with the OFA.
Below the fold:
Being a serial entreprenure, access to health insurance is at best a sometimes thing. I was heartened to see your committment to a public option as a sop to my disappointment to universal single-payer being traded away without a fair hearing.
Understand that a robust public option is my bright line for support of your plan. Though you positioned single-payer as a radical solution to the healthcare issue, your plan mandating Americans directly purchase a private product of at best dubious value under government coersion is even more radical than single-payer. The public option is the only systemic part of your plan that has a chance of stemming the possibility of even greater abuses at the hands of the profit seeking insurance companies given this mandate.
The Public Option is the heart and soul of your plan; not some minor feature that can be traded away. Should you trade away a robust public option in the coming months and years of effort to implement this plan, you will have traded away my support as well.
Congratulations on a great speech and please be warned.
Oh, BTW... no money for the OFA, just ActBlue and FDL.