Congress is getting on board for health care!
An update to our congressional calling campaign, in numbers:
- 50% - the percentage of Congress that has received phone calls about health care (251 Members, to be exact)
- 17 - the number of Members who have officially declared they are on our side for quality, affordable health care for all
- 19 - the number of calls it took for those 17 Members of Congress to declare they are on our side
As of today, these are the Members of Congress who have signed on:
Sen. Barbara Milulski, MD -The first to sign on!
Sen. Tom Harkin, IA
Rep. Mike Ross, AR
Rep. Marion Berry, AR
Rep. Raul Grijalva, AZ
Rep. Henry Waxman, CA
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, IL
Rep. Alcee Hastings, FL
Rep. William Jefferson, LA
Rep. Keith Ellison, MN
Rep. Bill Pascrell, NJ
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, NY
Rep. Brian Higgins, NY
Rep. John Hall, NY
Rep. Adam Smith, WA
Rep. Tammy Baldwin, WI
Rep. Steve Kagen, WI
If you live in these people’s states or districts, you can give them a call and thank them. But the real thanks goes to you.
None of this would be possible without folks calling their elected officials and demanding health care for all. Even though we are setting up in-person meetings with Members of Congress, both in their home states and up on Capitol Hill, they will not listen unless they hear from their constituents. As noted above, a few calls goes a long way - only 19 were needed to get the above 17 Members of Congress to sign on.
Take a few moments and make a few quick calls. And when you’re done, spread the word by telling your friends and family about this campaign.
More Congressional sign-ons are coming, and the more you call, the more people we’ll have on our side for the real fight in 2009.
(also posted at the NOW! blog)
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- August 28, 2008
Here's a telling question
...of those who have come on board with this, how many of them are up for re-election this year?
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manAugust 28, 2008 - 12:52pmhow many of them are up for re-election
Answer: all of them. Members of Congress are elected every 2 years.
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By blogbobAugust 28, 2008 - 2:28pmWrong...only members of the House are up every two years
Senators serve six year terms. It appears that there are a couple of senators on that list, but I don't know if they are up for re election.
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By UffdaguyAugust 28, 2008 - 2:34pmUffdaguy,
I am giving you the name of a man that is running for the senate here in Oklahoma Andrew Rice and he is for Obama`s health care plan. He is running against Jim Inhofe who is a disgrace to the state of Oklahoma. Hopefully people like me and you can help this man and layoff Inhofe.
FREE LEONARD PELTIER
www.aimovement.org
www.layoffinhofe.com
www.autismrocks.org
www.andrewriceforoklahoma.com
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By rlm_dcbAugust 28, 2008 - 7:24pmI hope it's soon...
My wildest medical dreams will be fulfilled when I have to trump down to the Regional Governmental Medical Care Dispensary Unit, wait in line for 4 hours with people who can't speak English, get to the window, find out I missed an entry on the forms, be sent to the back of the line, wait another 4 hours, be told to sit in the waiting area, have my number called, be told I have to wait because the doctors are out to lunch, sit back down, and be told 5 minutes before closing that I'll have to wait until tomorrow.
Then after I get to see the doctor who constantly mispronounces my name, I can gleefully hear that I have a life threatening condition that can't be cured in time due to the high volume of requests in the same ailment and be told to go home and die.
But hey...it's free!
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By Old_Farmer_McLeftyAugust 28, 2008 - 1:12pmBy Old_Farmer_McLeftyAugust 28, 2008 - 2:12pm
We can dare to dream that you have that experience.
Support the Troops.
End the Occupation.
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By Guy FawkesAugust 28, 2008 - 1:15pmAnd how is this different from what's already in place?
Oh...the "free" part. My bad.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manAugust 28, 2008 - 1:16pmAnd the stoopid parade marches on...
Gee, wow, mclefty, Ah hav nevur hurd dat stoory b4. Ahm gonna stik wit da helf plane Ah gotz. Witch iz, uh, nune.
An Ahmma gonna vote rubuplikan, eff Ah ain't too drunk 2 fine da fone boof.
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By thaelmann37August 28, 2008 - 1:40pmSorry to correct
"My wildest medical dreams will be fulfilled..."
I'm pretty sure you meant to say medicated dreams. It sure as hell has nothing to do w/what is being proposed.
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By justintymeAugust 28, 2008 - 3:01pmThat's a scenario
unknown to Canadians or Englishpersons.
My God, some socialized commie medical doctors actually have the time and inclination in England to indulge in a quaint ritual called a "house call".
The doctor actually comes to your home to do medical things! What will those commie socialists think of next?
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By alienuslxAugust 28, 2008 - 3:01pmYou are such a tool. You
You are such a tool.
You don't have a clue what you are talking about. All you do is repeat propaganda.
Every country I have lived in that had public health insurance had BETTER health care than we do here in the US.
What makes you think our health care is good? You're just scared of the unknown. You don't know that we are ranked #37 in health care. We don't have good health care, whereas places like France do.
With PUBLIC health.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouAugust 29, 2008 - 10:24amMcSame's Approach:
McSame's Universal Health Care Approach:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR200804...
Tax employer-subsidized health insurance as income. This will make Joe Sixpack less likely to want employer-subsidized health care (guess who wins? Yup. The ten-figure CEOs).
Then offer up "private" health care policies to all citizens. But without work group coverage requirements, those with chronic conditions will not be able to afford health insurance, and will drop out (who wins? The insurance companies, who want to take your money and give you nothing in return--and their ten-figure CEOs).
Then, when gas goes to $7.50 a gallon after the hurricane bearing down on the Gulf (or after McSame bomb bomb bomb-bomb bombs Iran), those who have shoestring budgets will have to choose between eating, buying gas to drive to work, or paying the health insurance premiums (who wins? The insurance companies, since once the poor drop out of the market, they can charge more for their product--and their ten-figure CEOs).
Then there are all of those who do not have the personal organization skills or the access to the market to research the individual health care choices. They will wind up paying out the nose for some assigned risk insurance policy that gives them essentially nothing (who wins? The ten-figure CEOs again).
And the bottom line is, all of those excluded from McSame's private health care insurance system will wind up in your local ER for their health care, and those of us who pay taxes will wind up paying for all their health care (who wins? The private health care organizations who can turn away people with no insurance).
Bottom line: Crash McSame's plan is socialized health care--just at the local level instead of the Federal level, since you and I and everyone else who pays taxes will have to foot the bill.
And by the way, under this scenario, don't have an accident, since your ER will be too busy treating flu cases to tend to your shattered pelvis. Like Governor Lamm of Colorado (Repugnican) used to say, the sick should die and get out of the way.
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By blogbobAugust 28, 2008 - 2:46pmAnd ole joe
sixpack will still vote for him...cuz druggie tells him to. Even though druggie HATED him just 6 months ago (probably less). Weee
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By justintymeAugust 28, 2008 - 3:05pmOops, Governor Lamm of
Oops, Governor Lamm of Colorado is a Democrat
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By jumpingjackflashAugust 28, 2008 - 3:24pmOoops
Oops, the Governor of Colorado is Bill Ritter.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manAugust 28, 2008 - 4:00pmHello, McFly!!! Duh!!! Look
Hello, McFly!!! Duh!!! Look at the post I responded too.
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By jumpingjackflashAugust 28, 2008 - 11:52pmYou're still a pussy
Prove me wrong, pussy.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
---Ray Bradbury
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By LiberalIconoclastAugust 29, 2008 - 1:09amUmmm...
Doesn't "Biff" ALWAYS end up being defeated and horribly humiliated in those movies?
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By A GAugust 29, 2008 - 7:05amWhat post is that?
You obviously answered at the bottom of the page instead of hitting the reply button because your post didn't show up as an answer to another one.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouAugust 29, 2008 - 10:14amRichard Lamm was governor in
Richard Lamm was governor in 1987.
Get with the times, sonny boy.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight Eisenhower
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By MichtouAugust 28, 2008 - 7:53pmHello, McFly!!! Duh!!! Look
Hello, McFly!!! Duh!!! Look at the post I responded too.
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By jumpingjackflashAugust 28, 2008 - 11:51pmHello, Biff! Duh!
You're still a couple of decades behind the curve. And Lamm doesn't even enter into the equation.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manAugust 28, 2008 - 11:57pmGovernor Lamm
was the prototypical NeoCon.
Trickle down--gooooood
Government----baaaaaaad
Social Programs-----eeeeeeevil
The poor and the sick and those w/o means should die and get out of the way
That was governor Lamm's position.
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By blogbobAugust 29, 2008 - 7:28amYes, I should have said "former governor" Lamm
and he WAS/IS a Repugnican.
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By blogbobAugust 29, 2008 - 7:25amBy blogbobAugust 29, 2008 - 8:25am
No, he actually WAS a Democrat who is now unaffiliated with either party.
Support the Troops.
End the Occupation.
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By Guy FawkesAugust 29, 2008 - 12:25pmI hope Jukebox Johnny McWetStart has a plan
...for expanding EDs. None of them are large enough, or have enough staffing, to provide for the immediate health care needs of those who seek it on a daily basis. If Jukebox Johnny McWetStart's "plan" ever came into existence, you'd either have to quadruple the size of the EDs already in existence...or quintuple the size of the morgues.
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. ~~~John Kenneth Galbraith
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By nonexistent manAugust 28, 2008 - 4:06pmMethinks
Crash McSame's plan is to increase the size of cemeteries---all privately owned of course. Maybe we can farm out the morgue services too. That will be of assistance when "we" (the NeoCons) torture someone to death...we can say they died of "heart failure" and no one will be able to question it.
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By blogbobAugust 29, 2008 - 7:30amtest
test
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By A GAugust 28, 2008 - 3:32pm