Congressman Rush Holt talks LIVE on Blue Jersey Radio tonight at 8:00 p.m.

What do you want us (0.00 / 0)

to ask the Congressman? I'm particularly interested in the issues Jeff listed above.  Is there something you'd like to hear?

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by: Jason Springer @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 04:09:41 AM UTC

Can we ask the Congressman.... (0.00 / 0)

why he is on the record at Firedoglake as "undecided" about whether he supports a public option in any health care reform legislation?

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by: Matthew Jordan @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 20:27:05 PM UTC

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I just want to be clear (4.00 / 1)

it looks like he's listed as undecided for if he would vote against a healthcare bill if it did not include a public option.  He is actually a co-sponsor of HR 676, a single payer plan, according to the site. We will pose the question though.  Thank you for pointing it out.

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by: Jason Springer @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 21:40:45 PM UTC

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Here's what he said... (0.00 / 0)

to the firedoglake question on whether he would oppose a healthcare bill that didn't include a public option:

i dont think i will vote for somethign that doesn't have a public option in it

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by: Jason Springer @ Wed Jul 01, 2009 at 03:12:15 AM UTC

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Please Confirm That He's On With HR676 (0.00 / 0)

If Holt is indeed co-sponsoring Single Payer, he's extremely unlikely to vote for any "public option" that is a shameful sham.

HR676 is an actual bill, the details are written.   So far "public option" is a catch phrase that sounds nice....almost as if it was a "single payer" plan for those who "chose" it.

If anyone out there remembers how the political demand for assistance to elders in paying their prescription gave us "Medicare Part D" which proved to be a total gift and boondoggle that has enriched big pharma.    Pharma co-opted the issue and the impulse toward reform and gave us a dirty Bush bill that was passed in the middle of the night....a bill that actually made it illegal for the givernment to negotiate prices.

If we get a "public option" that is a a scam we would be better off with no bill at all and making Single Payer THE central issue of the 2010 election.

When people actually understand how the so called "health insurance" industry "works"...no amount of lying propaganda will terrorize them into voting against their own interests.

Single payer is not "socialized medicine".....it just eliminates a "middleman" that adds no value to the system but rather takes up 31% of all we spend on healthcare and provides no healthcare for that money.   It is a parasitical industry.

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by: Nick Lento @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 23:48:59 PM UTC

We plan to ask him (0.00 / 0)

about the public option and the single payer issue. He and Congressman Payne are listed as co-sponsors from New Jersey along with 91 of their colleagues.

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by: Jason Springer @ Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 23:50:15 PM UTC

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