I received this message today about the state of Health Care Reform efforts in Congress. It is important to understand what is about to go down, and why our voices need to be louder and angrier right now than any “teabagger”. Let Harry Reid and Rahm Emanual feel our wrath!
I’ll let Dennis Kucinich take over from here:
Dear Friends,
It is said one should not ask how sausage or laws are made. Are you concerned about a public option? Let me share with you some insight about health care legislation which may not be good for your health.
The Kucinich Prediction: Here’s what’s going to happen …
- House will make a big deal about keeping/putting a public option in HR3200 because it competes with insurance companies and will keep insurance rates low.
- The White House will refer to the President’s speech last week where he spoke favorably of the public option.
- The Senate will kill the competitive public option in favor of non-competitive “co-ops”. Senate leaders like Kent Conrad have said the votes to pass a public option were never there in the Senate.
- The bill will come to a House-Senate Conference Committee without the public option.
House Democrats will be told to support the conference report on the legislation to “support the President”.
- The bill will pass, not with a “public option” but with a private mandate requiring 30 million uninsured to buy private health insurance (if one doesn’t already have it). If you are broke, you may get a subsidy. If you are not broke, you will get a fine if you do not purchase insurance.
- This legislative sausage will be celebrated as a “new breakthrough” and will be packaged as health insurance reform.
However, the bill may require a Surgeon General’s warning label: Your Money or Your Life!
The bill that Congress passes may pale in comparison to the bill that millions of Americans will get every month/year for having or not having private health insurance.It will take four years for the new legislation to go into effect. During that time we are going to build a constituency of millions in support of real health care, a constituency which will be recognized and a cause which is right and just: Health Care as a Civil Right.
Join our efforts. Sign the petition. Contribute. Insure a democratic future.
The link for the petition is right here at: HealthCare For All Petition
Please sign this petitition (above) if you have not already done so.
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..and sign the petition!
I’m kind of at a loss to understand why there aren’t 47 million people (or more) in the streets surrounding the Capital… madder than hell.
And 435+100 people inside the Capital pissing themselves in fear.
No more Pre-existing Conditions —
Get rid of Private Insurers!
Medicare-for-All, NOW!
Take the Profit out of Wellness,
and Provide for the the General Welfare,
of the American People.
…Kucinich’s predictions are correct. The highly flawed bill, the bill which will take the war ON the poor one step further, is already baked into the cake — a deadly and poisonous recipe.
We must work even harder for Medicare for All. Sign Kucinich’s petition.