Dear Sir,
Health Care Public Option
I never was able to understand why you voted to prevent Medicare from bargaining with the pharmaceutical companies for better prices, as part of the legislation creating a prescription benefit for seniors. On the face of it, it seemed like refunding campaign contributions with tax payer dollars . I have tried hard to believe you weren’t acting out of personal obligation.
Now you are faced with a vote on the public option in Health Care. I have been on Medicare for fifteen years. I have been through Cancer as well as major surgery. The system has worked exactly as advertised, and flawlessly.
I happen to have excellent catastrophic insurance from my from my former employer, which self insures. But I get angry when I read of the suffering of others at the hands of private insurers. We need a public option as a safeguard, otherwise healthcare reform will be one more give-away to the Health Care Industry . I would not mind paying another percentage point of taxes to ensure everyone was covered, but not if the money is going to greedy CEOs in private companies. Without the public option, it will take an army of bureaucrats to keep these greedy bastards on the straight and narrow.
Please disregard campaign contributions and try doing the right thing. You may be surprised how good that makes you feel. To be honest, I would respect you a lot more. I might even vote for you.
Yours truly,
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We do not handle money and we do not charge money for membership and we do not raise money.
So you can join our party and still remain a a member of the Democratic, Green, Labor, or other progressive party you belong to.
Instead we create referenda on legislation by boycott petitions where we target the companies which sell consumer products and associate themselves with conservatives. We demand that these company CEOs get the legislation that we want and until that happens our members send letters to these companies indicating we will boycott them.
Why do we use boycotts? Well I hope if Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, or Mohandas Gandhi appeared alive today that they would advocate boycotts of the friends of those who oppose our legislation, in a climate where those who donate money to office holders exercise too much influence over legislation.
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http://bit.ly/single_payer_baucus
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http://bit.ly/women_freedom_of_choice_act
Thank You For Your Letter to your Senator!
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
PennsylvaniaWomenForObama
Refunding Campaign Contributions
with Taxpayer Dollars.
Friday, July 10, 2009