I did not write the following, but I agree with every word of it and add my voice in urging you to take action.
Dear Friends,
Have you heard about the six senators who are out to kill health care reform? Of course, that's not how they'd phrase it. Sens. Baucus, Bingaman, Conrad, Enzi, Grassley and Snowe say they're striving for "bi-partisan compromise." But what they're actually doing is working to make sure reform won't include a public option or mandatory employer-based insurance - two key policies needed for effective reform.
My personal view is that best patient outcomes at lowest cost is logically incompatible with for-profit service delivery and for-profit health insurance. Without a strong public option to begin eroding the advantages of private health insurance, no meaningful change will occur.(PMG)
There are 100 members of the Senate, but these six, inexplicably, seem to be holding all the cards when it comes to health care. So you probably won't be surprised to learn that all six have taken a huge amount of money from the health insurance industry and pharma - more than $3 million between them.
These six senators -- who, by the way, represent only 2.74% of Americans between them -- are writing bad policy, and they're doing it while they take money from the very companies who stand to benefit the most.
I just signed a petition to tell the "Gang of 6" to give back every dime of their dirty insurance money. I hope you will, too. Please have a look and take action.
SIGN THE PETITION
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Here's a rather depressing article on Bingaman's role in enabling the Gang of Six sabotage of healthcare reform:
http://www.democracyfornewmexico.com/democracy_for_new_mexico/2009/08/bingaman-fades-the-corrupt-core-of-the-us-senate-comes-into-full-view-is-obama-one-of-them.html#more
Also a great overview of how Obama and the Democrats seem to be in the process of totally caving to the healthcare industry.
It makes too depressed even to get drunk.
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