Today’s the day: contact our congressional delegation

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What we may have considered inevitable appears to be happening: Obama is selling out real health care reform.

According to this report from NPR, 

Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Obama's administration signaled on Sunday that it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that a government alternative to private health insurance is “not the essential element” of the administration's health care overhaul. The White House would be open to co-ops, she said, a sign that Democrats want a compromise so they can declare a victory.

I'm sure that most readers of this site will find this utterly unacceptable. President Obama ran on a platfom of delivering health care reform, and the fraudulent package he is apparently willing to accept is a betrayal of all of us who worked so hard to put him in office.

If you agree that health care “reform” without even the watered-down public option is no reform at all, please contact your congressional delegation and ask them to oppose any health care package that does not include the public option.

Senator Patrick Leahy:

199 Main Street, 4th Floor – Burlington, VT 05401 – (802) 863-2525 – 1-800-642-3193

P.O. Box 933 – 87 State Street, Room 338 – Montpelier, VT 05602 – (802) 229-0569

Senator Bernie Sanders:

1 Church St. – 2nd Floor – Burlington, VT 05401 – (802) 862-0697 – Fax – (802) 860-6370 – (800) 339-9834
 
36 Chickering Dr, #103 – Brattleboro, VT 05301 – (802) 254-9207 – Fax (802) 254-0302
 
51 Depot St, Suite 201 – St. Johnsbury, VT 05819 – (802) 748-0191, (802) 748-9269 – Fax (802) 748-0302

 Representative Peter Welch:

30 Main Street, Third Floor, Suite 350 – Burlington, VT 05401 – (888) 605-7270 (toll free in VT) – (802) 652-2450

8 thoughts on “Today’s the day: contact our congressional delegation”

  1. Take a gander at Nate Silver’s latest, balanced (not fawning, and not un-critical), view of the current landscape:

    http://www.fivethirtyeight.com…

    And, for the record, many of us who actually did the hard work to put Obama in office (through the primary and beyond), do not feel betrayed.

    Frustrated with the insurance industry funded Blue Dogs, and the inability of the Obama admin to work this hard enough to be successful? Sure.

    But, betrayed? No sir, not betrayed.

  2. But public option is not going to happen.

    AP reports the Obama Administration’s ready to drop public option.

    Huffington Post also reported Obama’s sweet deal to big Pharma. They’re working against us, not with us. Money talks and bullshit walks. Obama’s shoes have shit all over them.  

    Bill Maher said it best today.

    Democrats have this bad habit of letting the Republicans scare them into acting more “regular guy” than they really are, and then they look inauthentic. Like Hillary drinking shooters. Like Dukakis in the tank. So I’m putting you on notice, Barack Obama: you’re from Chicago, the day I see you in a duck blind, I’m taking my hope elsewhere.

    Maher really makes Jon Stewart look like Mr. Rogers.

    Maher continues:

    So that’s why I’m so worried when I see my president playing golf, because golf is a slippery slope. First comes the golf attire, then the golf stories and pretty soon you’re telling black jokes. What’s worse is that you know Obama doesn’t really wanna be golfing, he’s just doing it because he thinks it will relax the white people. “How could I be a socialist, I’m putting!” Well, I’ve got news for you, Mr. President, the people who think you want to kill their Great Aunt Millie aren’t going to be swayed by a photo-op on the golf course. They see those photos, they’re not thinking you’re just like Tiger Woods, they’re thinking, “Here comes the Angel of Death, and he’s got a nine iron.”

  3. Last November voters showed strong support for health care reform .We have to now hit the streets,phones to show our support? It is passion,skill or will in the Congress and perhaps the White House that is failing this effort.The oppositions game plan was spelled out from the first .Stall it and kill it.Wingnut shock troops in the front line and (money)lobbyists in the second wave .Look at the ratio of lobbyists to congressmen .Check the web of lobbyists that are lawmakers former colleagues,in-laws and brothers  out to dull and blunt this legislation .Our elected leaders know what we voted for and are failing to support it .  

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