TheHill.com - Schumer promises public option in healthcare bill

The Co-op plan that they are trying to call a public option is not and I hope Schumer keeps up the fight.

The Co-Op is not viable and requiring employers to provide insurance defeats one of the purposes of single payer. That is to free employers of the cost of providing healthcare so they can be more competitive with employers in countries that have universal healthcare. If the public option has to be made unworkable to satisfy Republicans, do it without them. They had eight years of doing everything their way. It's our turn now.

We know what it is Marilynn and we will not settle for it, if we can't get single payer or the government option I personally won't want any bill let the system die.

If they just expand and improve Medicare it will be so much smoother, cheaper and just plain better. Why do they have to jerk us around?

Health Justice
When a constituent asked Iowa Sen. Charles "Chuck" Grassley why he couldn't have health care as good as Grassley receives, the senator arrogantly replied that the man could have such a deal -- 'just get a job with the federal government' said the Senator. Read about it and watch the video here.

What an arrogant jerk! And remember, this is the best buddy of Baucus. This is the Republican that Baucus has in mind when he says he wants a 'bipartisan' solution. If this attitude doesn't betray the fakery behind the insurance company bailout called health 'reform' then I don't know what will.

Blast Baucus and Grassley and the White House with faxes telling Grassley off for his arrogance. If you are from Iowa, let him know that you have him in your sights and you will vote him out of office when you can. If you are not from Iowa, let him know that you still regard him as a shameful example of the slugs that have inherited power in Washington.

Be aware. This fax is NOT POLITE. If you want polite, and think polite works, this one is not for you. You can edit it, but it's hard to tell off a jerk in polite terms, especially when you are mad. And I wrote this one when I was mad. So don't tell me that you won't send this one because you don't like the tone. Just don't send it. Frankly, I don't think polite and begging work anymore.

Send your fax to Grassley today.

Tie (or Tape) a Blue Ribbon On Your Trees, Mailbox, Door, etc.
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A couple of weeks ago, Rick Ford in Florida proposed that supporters of single payer start wearing a blue bandana as an armband to rallies. In Washington DC on June 25, all the single payer people that came with HealthJustice wore blue armbands. We put blue armbands on hundreds more of the people there. We used strips of blue cloth, but even better, we used blue painters' masking tape. It's just the right color, it's cheap and it goes anywhere without leaving a mark when removed.

Go to Lowe's or the local hardware store today. Buy a roll of blue painters' masking tape or blue duct tape. Tape a few turns around every tree, mailbox or lamppost in your neighborhood. And when people ask, tell them it symbolizes the demand for REAL health reform. It means single payer Medicare For All. Without REAL health reform, we will all have the 'HealthCare Blues."
http://www.1payer.net/action-alerts/invite.html

Thats a good one Marilynn. I got to get me some of that blue tape.

Copy of Health Justice e-fax.
http://www.1payer.net/faxapp/senders/add/cid:17

Sen. Charles Grassley

CC: White House, Max Baucus, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi

Sir

A constituent asked you a reasonable question: “Why can’t we have what you have?” You told your constituent that he should “just go work for the federal government” if he wanted government-paid health care as good as yours. Apparently, you were too dense or arrogant or drunk with power to offer a reasonable response.

You receive, courtesy of me and other taxpayers, an entitlement to publicly financed, privately delivered health care far better and far less expensive than anything available to any ordinary American. You even receive an entitlement to free medical care when you want it.

Yet you sneer at people who don’t have decent health care and who ask a reasonable question. You and your Republican colleagues rail against any health reform plan that even hints that insurance companies are ruinously wasteful behemoths bankrupting Americans and America. You won’t bail out ordinary folks but you are more than willing to enact ‘bailout’ legislation that will prop up health insurers and enhance their power to give you money.

You, sir, are an arrogant, blustering, small-minded cad. You don’t deserve the position of trust and power to which you have been elected. You have hung a badge of shame on yourself. You have been hiding in Washington far too long. Let’s hope the people of Iowa have enough common sense to throw you out of office.

Sincerely,

Stay mad, because it will be us who are mad as hell that will change what the hell has been going on for far to long.