Organizing for America Launches Health Care Action Center
Posted on June 10th, 2009 by Alex Thurston in Solutions that Work
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As President Obama enters the health care debate more actively, Organizing for America is following suit. Today they emailed supporters to announce the launch of a new Health Care Action Center, with a major focus on pushing for the creation of a public option:
The race to pass real health care reform in 2009 is heating up. Early drafts for a full proposal are already circulating in the Senate and in the House. While our opponents twist arms to weaken reform, the future of American health care is up for grabs.
That's why we're launching our Health Care Action Center. It's a one-stop shop for taking action and learning more to build support for real reform.
The President clearly wants his grassroots army to pressure Congress:
When the dust settles in Washington, will the final plan satisfy the President's call to reduce costs, guarantee choice, and ensure quality, affordable health care for every American? That depends on you.
When the lobbyists for the status quo walk out of a meeting with your representatives, will your representatives' phones start ringing with real constituents back home demanding action? They will if you call.
When your local news runs stories asking whether regular people are joining this fight, will they cover an event in your neighborhood? They will if you organize it.
And when the airwaves fill with ads featuring actors pretending that we don't need change, will your local paper run letters to the editor from real people who know why we can't wait? They will if you write one.
So please take the first step by visiting the Health Care Action Center today. You'll find everything you need to build support in Congress and your community, with as little or as much time as you have to give.
We'll continue updating the Action Center as this campaign unfolds, so consider this your personal homepage in the fight for health care reform:
Critically, the Action Center also features a concise and compelling explanation of the President's three main principles for health reform:
- Reduce costs — Rising health care costs are crushing the budgets of governments, businesses, individuals, and families, and they must be brought under control
- Guarantee choice — Every American must have the freedom to choose their plan and doctor – including the choice of a public insurance option
- Ensure quality care for all — All Americans must have quality and affordable health care
Mobilizing grassroots support around the push for a public option will send a powerful message to Congressional leaders. As the fight around health care intensifies, it's critical that lawmakers know where ordinary Americans stand.
Any health care plan that includes insurance corporations will get no support from me.
Insurance is a scam.
It is useless middlemen that provide nothing constructive or valuable to the system.
I believe that the public option is the only plan that will get us to where we ultimately want to be - single payer. History teaches us that sometimes it is the oblique attack that ends up winning. The frontal attack is not working and while I am loathed to keep the blood sucking health insurance companies and big pharma in place for now, this may be our only option in this capitalistic, selfish, greedy, "I've got mine, so why should I have to worry about anybody else" society that exists in this country. Some people are honestly afraid of government involvement, I think that we who live in urban areas on the coasts and some middle states just do not realize how anti-government some parts of this country are!
I think President Obama just wants to show people that a public option can work, that it's not socialized medicine, that people will have more choices about doctors and will not have to worry about losing their health benefits if they lose their jobs and they won't have to worry that an illness will bankrupt them. I think he is hoping to persuade the Americans that are on the fence about this issue, or the Americans that are scared about any new system, or the Americans that are scared or doubtful about the Government's role in health care that single payer can work.
Time will tell, I guess….
Just look at England, France & all those countries over their & tell me how great it is!