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Edited on Mon Sep-14-09 05:07 PM by Tom Rinaldo
If they oppose "the public option" we must force them to answer:
"Do you support privatizing Medicare, and if not why not, since you oppose even allowing anyone to have a public option under health care reform bills now being considered?"
I believe an aggressive campaign should be started to non stop pepper any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, with that basic question. We should have a grass roots movement that demands that all of our elected Representatives make their personal views known about Medicare; should it or should it not remain a government run health care program? Don't let any squirm off the hook by saying that Medicare isn't the issue at hand, or by saying now is not the time to consider changes that might disrupt health care services to Seniors. Ask them to at least respond in principle then; do they think that ideally Seniors would be better off today if private insurers provided their health care insurance coverage rather than government run Medicare?
Medicare is not a new small scale social experiment. It has covered tens of millions of Americans for decades. It is completely reasonable to ask Republicans and Blue Dogs whether they believe government run Medicare does as well or better than a privately run program would for our Seniors. If they can't answer that simple question than they are so out of touch about the issue that they should be forced to abstain from voting on any health care insurance issues currently before Congress.
The netroots can force all of our elected officials to state their views on government run Medicare if we make it our priority to do so.
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