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Stand With Dr. Dean: Get Answers From Our Senators

by: Hopeful

Wed Jun 17, 2009 at 03:25:38 PM EDT



Health Care for America Now, Democracy for America, Open Left, Blue Jersey, and many other blogs have launched a new campaign to find out how Senators stand on real health care reform.  We want to find out the responses -- in writing -- to these questions:

  • Do you support a public healthcare option as part of healthcare reform?

  • If so, do you support a public healthcare option that is available on day one?

  • Do you support a public healthcare option that is national, available everywhere, and accountable to Congress?

  • Do you support a public healthcare option that can bargain for rates from providers and big drug companies?

    These are the key points that conservatives and the force of the status quo are trying to keep out of health care reform. As Chris Bowers says:

    For years, candidates for, and members of, Congress told us that we needed to elect and re-elect them in order to lower health care costs and provide universal coverage. And so, for years, we dutifully worked our collective asses off, delivering wide majorities for Democrats--who said they would lower health care costs and provide universal coverage--in both branches of Congress.

    Now, when it comes time for them to deliver on health care by providing a public option--the care minimum required to reduce costs and provide universal coverage--what we are getting instead are backroom deals, flip-flops, and cop-outs.

    Enough.

    We need written responses, so e-mail our senators our four questions.  This tool makes it easy. When you get an answer, post it here.

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    Problems already (4.00 / 1)
    from Politico:
    the Senate Finance Committee - long viewed as the best hope for producing a bill that could draw bipartisan support - signaled it was unable to produce a package in the coming days. The committee said it might put off its markup of the bill until after the July 4 recess, almost a month from Chairman Max Baucus' original start date.

    "We will have a mark when we are ready and we are not yet ready," Baucus (D-Mont.) said.

    At the same time Finance Committee members were meeting behind closed doors, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee opened its mark-up on Kennedy's bill - only to see Republicans turning increasingly feisty.

    "The bill we have been presented with is so flawed that it cannot be fixed and we need to start over," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said.

    This is going to be one ugly fight.

    everyone knows Alexanders voting no anyway (0.00 / 0)
    He and all Republicans (other than the Maine ladies) should be ignored.

    Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

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    I'm not concerned about (0.00 / 0)
    Alexander, it's the Conservative Democrats that will be the problem.

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