Rollcall: I called about the public option today, did you?

I called ALL of these people today about a strong public option. Check in and recommend if you have called congress about a strong public option today. You have no right to bitch about Obama and the health care plan unless you work to make it what we all want and need.

Here is slinkerwink's top rated diary at dailykos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/22/745433/-Please-Call-TODAY-For-A-Strong-Public-Option!

Here are the talking points.

That you DO NOT want the 7-year trigger for the public option and take it off the table.
That you support an affordable strong, robust Medicare-like public option.
The we NEED a strong, robust Medicare-like public option NOW OPEN TO ALL AMERICANS AND AFFORDABLE.
DON'T TAX OUR EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFITS. (OMG this would piss off everyone)
TELL YOUR SENATOR NO ON THE SCHUMER COMPROMISE AND NO ON THE CONRAD CO-OP COMPROMISE.

Why are democratic Senators trying to make the public option expensive and ineffective? I know the answer but still.

From Slinkerwink
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CALL Senator Dodd at (202) 224-2823 and ask him to put in OPTION A, which is the strong, robust Medicare-like public option, NOT OPTION B, which is the Conrad co-op proposal, in the markup on Monday.

These are the members of the HELP Committee to CALL today since they're having their markup today.

Tom Harkin (IA): (202) 224-3254
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD): (202) 224-4654
Jeff Bingaman (NM): (202) 224-5521
Patty Murray (WA: (202) 224-2621
Jack Reed (RI): (202) 224-4642
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT): (202) 224-5141
Sherrod Brown (OH): (202) 224-2315
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA): (202) 224-6324
Kay Hagan (NC): (202) 224-6342
Jeff Merkley (OR): (202) 224-3753

Then PLEASE CALL the rest of the Democratic Senators to urge them to support a strong, robust Medicare-like public option in health care reform!

Please CALL Senator Max Baucus at (202) 224-2651

Please CALL Senator Olympia Snowe at (202) 224-5344

Please CALL Senator Charles Schumer at 202-224-6542

Please CALL Senator Edward Kennedy at (202) 224-4543

Please CALL Senator John Rockefeller at (202) 224-6472

Please CALL Senator Ron Wyden at (202) 224-5244

Please CALL Senator Kent Conrad at (202) 224-2043

Please CALL Senator Jeff Bingaman at (202) 224-5521

Please CALL Senator John Kerry at (202) 224-2742

Please CALL Senator Blanche Lincoln at 202-224-4843

Please CALL Senator Debbie Stabenow at (202) 224-4822

Please CALL Senator Maria Cantwell at 202-224-3441

Please CALL Senator Bill Nelson at 202-224-5274

Please CALL Senator Robert Menendez at 202-224-4744

Please CALL Senator Thomas Carper at (202) 224-2441

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I called every person listed above. It took less than an hour to call everyone here, please at least call one or two of them, this is too important to let them win.

Check in here after you've called.

will call also

Dodd, Sanders, and Nelson. Been seeing a few threads about this recently so I put in my two cents worth.

I also have emailed them and even written postal letters.

And I will not hold my breath.

It will take leather on pavement, for as long as it takes

This should not be about corporations. It's about our health.

kick