OBAMA ACTION ALERT! "I Need Your Voice on Health Care...Help Me!"

I need your voice on health care!


The chance to finally reform our nation's health care system is here. While Congress moves rapidly to produce a detailed plan, I have made it clear that real reform must uphold three core principles -- it must reduce costs, guarantee choice, and ensure quality care for every American.

As we know, challenging the status quo will not be easy. Its defenders will claim our goals are too big, that we should once again settle for half measures and empty talk. Left unanswered, these voices of doubt might yet again derail the comprehensive reform we so badly need. That's where you come in.

When our opponents spread fear and confusion about the changes we seek, your support for these core principles will show clarity and resolve. When the lobbyists for the status quo tell Congress to hold back, your personal story will give them the courage to press forward.

Join my call: Ask Congress to pass real health care reform in 2009.

After adding your name, please consider sharing your personal story about the importance of health care reform in your life and the lives of those you love.

I will be personally reviewing many of these signatures and stories. If you speak up now, your voice will make a difference.

http://my.barackobama.com/HealthCareOrganizing

American families are watching their premiums rise four times faster than their wages. Spiraling health care costs are shackling America's businesses, curtailing job growth and slowing the economy at the worst possible time. This has got to change.

I know personal stories can drive that change, because I know how my mother's experience continues to drive me. She passed away from ovarian cancer a little over a decade ago. And in the last weeks of her life, when she was coming to grips with her own mortality and showing extraordinary courage just to get through each day, she was spending too much time worrying about whether her health insurance would cover her bills. She deserved better. Every American deserves better. And that's why I will not rest until the dream of health care reform is finally achieved in the United States of America.

Please add your name to join my call. Then share your personal story about why you too will not rest until this job is done.

http://my.barackobama.com/HealthCareOrganizing

Last November, the American people sent Washington a clear mandate for change. But when the polls close, the true work of citizenship begins. That's what Organizing for America is all about. Now, in these crucial moments, your voice once again has extraordinary power. I'm counting on you to use it.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

.... maybe Barack Obama will have better luck with Zach "Dr. No" Wamp than I have.

and the only way to get single-payer is to pout and remain silent. Did you get the email? HE'S ASKING PEOPLE TO WRITE TO HIM ABOUT HEALTHCARE.

And Yes, I responded with my thoughts. (I probably write him two-three times a week on this issue. I've offered as a lay person to sit at the table.) I will settle for the public option but I believe he MUST have single payer advocates at the table. I am not sending more money until I see that.

Including Barack's number one fan, my husband.

But our lives have been semi-destroyed due to Big Insurance. It needs to be pushed out the door and Single Payer Universal needs a place at the table.

No can do.

contact him. If this goes bad...then we hold his "Feet to the Fire."

Just saying...and yes...I'm a "single payer" supporter, too. I just see that Obama's people are tryin to cut off those of us they view as "Lefties" so...if we support his ACTION ALERT and he doesn't come through then we can hold him to our support.

It's important to do this...because of that, IMHO..

And won't go away! My son can't get health insurance from a private company due to a condition he was born with. He deserves medical treament when will need it. As do the millions of American citizens who have no health insurance, have health insurance and are turned down for treatment and the American businesses that could hire more people and produce more products and services if they were freed from the burden of helping their employees by providing group health insurance plans.

Ain't nobody goin' away on this one!

and end up with NO HEALTHCARE REFORM AT ALL...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Clintonesque, right down to his cabinet. This is going to be different?

would forbid discrimination on the basis of age or preexisting conditions. Every universal healthcare system in the world forbids such discrimination, including the Dutch and Swiss systems which are built around mandatory private insurance. There is nothing special about single-payer insurance in this regard.

fork over everything to your darling insurance companies.
Shove your "heads up" where the sun don't shine, along with your groveling, unquestioning compliance with whatever Dear Leader tells you to do.

on edit: oh, and by the way, I have told him repeatedly that it's "single payer or forget it." Just to piss you off, I'm sending another rant this evening, and will continue to do so. Unlike you, I will not give one thin dime to insurance companies, and I don't give a fuck whether you "lose" because I won't. I'm sure you'll figure something out, since you have no problem flushing your money down the insurance toilet.

and single-payer advocates are included in the discussion, then we'll talk. Until then, not so much.

I'll donate money, knock on doors, whatever. As long as it's worth it.

yippee! I could get the right to choose my own insurance company. how "reformed." :sarcasm:

I did not donate because I no longer understand exactly what the President wants.

And "behind-closed-doors-no-single-payer-voice-allowed" meetings aren't helping.

I believe and understand that we can't jump from our current system to single payer... but I want to know that we're headed in that direction.

I don't know where we're headed right now.

it's way, way, way too much ask for someone to contact their own representative, or submit a frigging email to him and <gasp> express why it is single payer or nothing..or whatever. I love it!

To Obama and my representatives!!

I just won't donate any money until I'm sure what my money is supporting. :hi:

It's hard enough for me to give locally. I guess that's why I'm so fond of contacting government officials..it's cheap!

I'm done with your Organizing for America bullshit.

really crack me up.

If you read his message. SINGLE PAYER IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL. But he has to frame it in a way that gives people a CHOICE. Continue to choose suckie healthcare or medicare type care. Do you really think if given the choice people aren't going to choose the latter? If he doesn't make it a choice then they're gonna be jumping all over him about this socialized medicine harry and louisE B.S. But if it's a CHOICE..well how can you be all about the free market and not be in favor of CHOICE?

The "three principles" are to reduce costs, guarantee choice, and ensure quality care for all.
The "choice" principle means that "Americans must have the freedom to keep whatever doctor and health care plan they have, or to select a new doctor or health care plan if they choose." gee, that is just so COMMITTED to the "ultimate goal" of single payer.

Why must he constantly be so wishy-washy? If single payer is "the ultimate goal," he needs to fucking come out and say so, instead of playing little head games and "pretending" he's on the insurance co's side--or is he not pretending? it's so hard to know when he won't come out and say so. If single payer is the "ultimate goal," why doesn't he present a real plan for it, instead of waffling around and constantly asking for our "input" that he then ignores? How many fucking times do people have to tell him they want single payer?

If you did then write exactly what you just wrote here to him. He says he will be going through some of them personally. You cannot assume that all he's hearing in the Washington bubble is single-payer he is being tremendously pressured by the same swiftboat people to not even mention the word single-payer.

so they can force us to purchase insurance to profit others, with the force of law. I laughed at that like I laugh at this letter.
Does he ever say exactly how much profit the Insuance companies deserved for his Mom's illness, in specific? Clearly he thinks that their profit was more important than her health as some point, and I'd like to know what his exact thoughts on that are.

He's passing what he thinks he can get passed. Our great democratic Senate is so interested in keeping the status quo.

The Corptocracy has bought about 15 democratic senators and with that, they now have the ability to control government.

on, at the very least, a public option. He has not stepped forward mandate such a proposal and so I do not see him supporting it wholeheartedly. I will not give him cover until he does and neither should you, IMHO.

solid benefits put out there by those of you who will not insist on a public option. The insurance cos. et al have already backed away from their mediocre promises. The military budget of Obama is still staggering, while many Amercans have no health care. Insurance companies (in fact all corps) rule now just like they did under the GOPers. CHANGE? WHEN?

I read his plan, it will save the average American a whopping 2,000 dollars on health care insurance they can't afford by thousands of dollars. It won't provide equal coverage. It won't remove the health insurance leeches that waste up to 50% of health care dollars on administration, stock profits, and CEO salaries.

Not impressive Mr. Obama.

Not impressive at all.

I know you met with those health care stake holders while drs & nurses were arrested simply for attempting to get a representative at the table for the single payer plan.

Disgusting.

Plus Kennedy is writing a plan he hopes to push which is universal health care. We need to push it. I think the public option is on the table...I never heard it was off the table. What the 2000 is for, is the opeople who WANT to keep their insurance. The public option is something else entirely.

but I would become an inactive activist--sitting out the next election. We were promised at least a public option. If Obama were pushing for single-payer, the compromise could be public option. As it is, we will lose, the special interests will win, the change will be that our tax dollars will go to pay for those who can't afford health insurance...much like the Medicare prescription drug debacle. You can bet that the CEOs will not give up their multi-million dollar compensation packages and free jets.

So... don't ask me for help

I'm totally supporting you O.

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I want single-payer at the table. I don't mind other options in the discussion but really was hurt by the exclusion of the single-payer advocates. Just let us in the hearing, for goodness' sake!

So I'm thinking of sending a message about my dilemma to the president or his team. Yes I want the things you want but I really need a public option. The time has long passed for health care in the USA to be a right, rather than a cash-based privilege.

Yes I would rather forgo an aggressive series of wars, rather than government funded universal health care.

With solid secure health care as right, rather than a privilege for those with enough money, we can survive through tough times more smoothly. We can make the transitions necessary to jumpstart a new green economy and low carbon prosperity.

No single payer health care plan?

Then, NO!!

President Obama and Senator Bauchus SOLD US OUT!!!! :evilfrown:

The boy king seems to be a sell out, jmo... :puke:

No money, no support from me, but I'll send an email for sure. From what I've seen, so-called healthcare reform is another huge corporate giveaway. Unbelievable.

Every day I regret the donations I made to his campaign. His positions on torture, prosecutions of such, healthcare, Afghanistan/Pakistan, military tribunals, I can't stand them. Hillary would have been no better, McCain would have been worse, but still, is that all we can expect? I think not.

There was one true progressive on the ballot last election, and that was Kucinich, my first choice. Why were so few in DU willing to get behind him? Especially since it's the primaries where we're free to vote our conscience, no need to compromise until the general election.

Next time, let's not support a CorporaDem, whether it's Obama or someone else, let's go for principle. These DINOs aren't worth the air they're breathing. Ultimately, I believe they harm our causes more than the repubs do, since the public just decides Dems suck as much as Repubs, and are then vulnerable to Repub wedge politics.

There is no information about what I'm being asked to sign on in support of. There is no reason to believe that the Health Care Corporations couldn't make token reforms, get legislation passed to make insurance mandatory, and then revoke the token changes. There is no guarantee of a public option. The Single Payer advocates were arrested rather than listened to. And the only place I could find to respond and register my doubts directed me to send an email to... the fucking DNC?

No, I won't be signing up blind. Thanks for the suggestion though.

No, thanks.

LET HIM KNOW...he's asking for help...he sent it to all his supporters.