President Obama meets with Congressional leaders tomorrow at a public, televised, bipartisan Health Reform Summit. (Insurance reform that is) Mr. President we need HELP, not another corporate bailout.
We are counting on you to succeed, really succeed, for us.
Today's the day. Congress and the White House must hear from the people in a really big way. Aiming for 1.000.000 calls, letters and emails--try faxing a one-page handwritten letter overnight.
Slinkerwink now reports 1,000,000 contacts! Fantastic! Keep calling Congress, but don't forget the White House. I believe President Obama is the head of the Democratic Party, and that Democrats are carrying out his policy wishes, for good or ill.
Jovie131 reports that STUPAK will appear tomorrow, at Republican invitation, unbelieveable. Whatta EGO on that guy, eh?
See a very moving letter to the President that I received, below.
NuevoLiberal commented on Keith Olbermann's Diary that Alan Grayson and Anthony Weiner should be invited to the Summit. Sounds good to me! Keith's diary is important and touching.
This letter was copied to me by someone on my email list, responding to my blast about this week's grass roots Health Reform action:
Julie i sent this from the Whitehouse form
Dear President Obama,
I worked for your election and voted for you. I still hope for better times but I'm worried about your Summit with Republicans, because I'm not sure who you work for any more.
I wanted a Single Payor health system to relieve worry, release people from bad jobs they dare not leave, lower costs and improve our ability to compete globally.
But you took that off the table even before negotiations started.
Then I wanted medicare buy-in and subsidies to relieve worry, prevent deteriation of uninsured and uninsurable people before they turn 65, free people in their 50 from jobs they dare not leave. That's apparently dead too.
I wanted the federal government to be able to negotiate better prices from big drug corps that we taxpayers subsidize. But you dealt that away and then killed the drug reimportation bill too.
Finally I wanted a national public option to reduce costs, inject competition and put the citizen back in the health insurance driver's seat.
Now you have been ALL OVER the map on that one! Where do you stand and who do you stand with now?
Not just in public, but do you really support the reconcilliation effort from Congress and Senator Bennett (+) to get back a public option? Or will you kill that behind the scenes too?
Now, in the name of false and meaningless bipartisanship, I am very worried that you will again give everything good thats left away for a photo op, leaving us with mandates to buy insurance we can't afford for policies we can't afford to use.
Please try to remember that we don't need health insurance, we need health care that we can afford!
So my question is, who do you work for?
Add your voice! Fax, email and call Congress and the White House.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461 , email http://www.whitehouse.gov/...
Senators' contacts here: http://www.senate.gov/... Click on the name, go to Member's site, look for contact page
Switchboard 202-224-3121,
Representatives' contact info here: http://www.house.gov/...
Toll free #s to Congress
800-828-0498
866.311.3405,
800.828.0498
866.338.1015,
866.220 0044
Main Public Option talking points from the Senators' letter to Reid:
- A Public Option Is an Important Tool for Restoring Fiscal Discipline.
- A Public Option Would Provide Americans with a Low-Cost Alternative and Improve Market Competitiveness.
- There is a history of using reconciliation for significant pieces of health care legislation.
- There is strong public support for a public option, across party lines