I've seen our health care system up close over the past year.
I'm fortunate to have the finest medical care in the world. But I've seen far too many people unable to obtain the care they need because they can't afford it.
That's wrong. It's got to change, and it's about to change.
We're fighting for legislation in Congress to fix our broken health care system. Under President Obama's leadership, Republicans and Democrats are working together to write a bill that will guarantee good care at long last to everyone who needs it.
But we'll need strong nationwide support to produce the 60 Senate votes that will probably be required to avoid a filibuster and actually pass the bill. I need your support. Please sign our petition for quality, affordable health care for every American:
http://www.democraticmajority.com/healthcare
Our legislation includes five major provisions:We give Americans better choices for health insurance. We follow a simple principle: If you like the coverage you have now, you can keep it. If you don't like your current coverage, our bill offers new and more affordable options. We'll negotiate with insurance companies to keep costs low, make it illegal for companies to deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions, and give Americans the option to enroll in a public insurance program.
We reduce the cost of health care. We'll crack down on fraud and abuse, and we'll reduce red tape to keep costs down. We also make sure doctors use the most effective therapies to treat illnesses, so patients aren't paying extra for treatments that don't work.
We put new emphasis on prevention. The best way to treat a disease is to prevent it from ever striking, or to catch it at an early stage. By giving every American access to affordable health care, we'll enable millions of people to be screened for diabetes, heart disease, cancer and depression.
We bring more help to the elderly and the disabled. We make it easier for these Americans to live independently. We help pay for home upgrades such as wheelchair ramps, and for regular home care to enable people to live in their own homes, not nursing homes.
Finally, we develop a better health workforce, delivering modern and responsive care. We invest in doctors, nurses, and other health professionals to meet the needs of patients more effectively for years to come.These changes won't be easy to enact -- but we can't afford to wait, and we can't afford to fail.
Show your support for health reform that will benefit all our citizens, reduce the financial burdens on our nation's people and businesses, and put our health care industry on a strong and sustainable basis for the future:
I'll be working hard to pass this bill in the weeks ahead, and I hope you'll be there with me.
Thank you so much for the very real difference you can make in achieving this great goal we share.
Sincerely,
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
President Obama implies that he does not want to risk the failure of getting a Healthcare Reform Bill at the expense of ideological purity. He states that if we were starting from scratch he understands that the Single Payer Healthcare insurance would be preferable and that given that healthcare is 1/6th of our economy that we probably could not make that drastic transition.
Can you imagine if Abraham Lincoln said..."The infrastructure, as it pertains to slavery reform, has already been set in place for the last 400 years...therefore slavery reform must include the infrastructure already in place. To follow up with, "Don't get me wrong, if the infrastructure wasn't already there and I could start from scratch...my slavery reform would include " THE COMPLETE ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY.
BUT INSTEAD: WE'LL WORK WITH THE CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE TO BETTER THE LIVES OF SLAVES...
WE'LL GIVE A TAX CREDIT FOR ALL SLAVEOWNERS WHO FOLLOW "THE SLAVERY KINDNESS ACT."
1. 2- 20 MINUTE BREAKS TO EAT...
2. ALLOWING PREGNANT WOMEN TO GIVE BIRTH IN THE BARN INSTEAD OF THE CUSTOMARY FIELD..
3. ALL SLAVEOWNERS WHO RAPE SLAVE WOMEN MUST GIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO THE OFFSPRING...IE. INSIDE WORK....LIMITED HUMAN RIGHTS ETC.
GET THE JIST?
SINGLE PAYER/PUBLIC HEALTHCARE IS THE ANSWER....
INFRASTRUCTURE/HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES/LOBBYISTS? "BULLDOOSE THEM!"
DURING W'S REIGN THE REPUBS AND MANY DEM SENATORS VOTED IN ALL THE LOOPHOLES TO PROTECT CORPORATIONS, BOWED TO LOBBYIST AND DESTROYED THE LITTLE GUYS LIVELIHOOD...NOW THE DEMS OWN THE HOUSE, SENATE AND PRESIDENCY,YET, THE SENATE IS NOT VOTING FOR IT'S CONSTITUENTS...REPUBS ARE VERY CONSISTENT..THEY VOTE NO TO EVERYTHING THAT LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD AND SAVES US JUST A LITTLE BIT FROM THE ECONOMIC WOES WE ARE ALL TOUGHING OUT... HR. 1106 "SAVING FAMILIES FROM FORECLOSURES"....WELL, THIS IS A TRULY BI-PARTISAN BILL... NOT ONLY DID ALL OF THE REPUBS VOTE THE BILL DOWN...BUT 10 DEMS VOTED IT DOWN TOO AND 2 DEMS REFUSED TO VOTE AT ALL... TRULY UNACCEPTABLE....
Baucus (D-MT), Nay Bennet (D-CO), Nay Byrd (D-WV), Nay Carper (D-DE), Nay Dorgan (D-ND), Nay Johnson (D-SD), Nay Kennedy (D-MA), Not Voting Landrieu (D-LA), Nay Lincoln (D-AR), Nay Nelson (D-NE), Nay Pryor (D-AR), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting Specter (D-PA), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay
KAREN
Senate Rejects Limit on Credit-Card Interest RatesBy CARL HULSEDespite complaints that banks and credit card companies are gouging customers by charging outrageous interest rates, the Senate on Wednesday easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates at 15 percent.The effort by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, drew only 33 votes and needed 60, with a bipartisan group of 60 senators opposing it asthe Senate pushed its credit card overhaul toward the finish line. Some Democrats and consumer groups have said that an interest cap is needed to put real teeth into an otherwise solid bill.http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/senate-rejects-limit-on-credit-card-interest-rates/?partner=rss&emc=rss
U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Sessionas compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the SenateVote SummaryQuestion: On the Motion (Motion to Waive CBA Sanders Amdt. No. 1062 )Vote Number: 191 Vote Date: May 13, 2009, 04:24 PMRequired For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Motion RejectedAmendment Number: S.Amdt. 1062 to S.Amdt. 1058 to H.R. 627 (Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act of 2009)Statement of Purpose: To establish a national consumer credit usury rate.21 democrats vote w/the repubs....5 dems refused to vote....
MORE WOLVES:
Akaka (D-HI)Baucus (D-MT)Bayh (D-IN)Bingaman (D-NM)Byrd (D-WV)Cantwell (D-WA)Carper (D-DE)Hagan (D-NC)Johnson (D-SD)Kaufman (D-DE)
"Hardy-harrr-harrr-harrr...get the police" says the senators in the healthcare sub-
committee...single payer healthcare is not represented by anyone at the table...a few brave
Americans from the audience expose the taboo subject...probably because the folks are "TRYING
TO BE THE CHANGE THEY WANT TO SEE"...SINCE CREDIT CARD REFORM IS NOT ON OUR OFA
"PLEDGE CARD" AS A TOP 3 PRIORITY AND UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE IS..PRESIDENT OBAMA
SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CHANGE THE TOWN HALL MEETING IN NEW MEXICO TO RALLY THE
TROOPS AND ORGANIZE AGAINST THE INSURANCE LOBBYIST WHO CONTINUE TO USE THEIR
IMMENSE POWER TO DESTROY THE HOPE OF UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE/ SINGLE PAYER
INSURANCE.
MEMO TO CONGRESS: “IN THE NAME OF TRANSPARENCY” “SPEAK PLAINLY AND ACT HONORABLY”
1. 2007-2008 bill was named hr. 200 “SAVING FAMILIES FROM FORECLOSURE BILL”…
It never made it out of a house sub-committee. The bill died…AND MANY AMERICANS LOST THEIR HOMES AS THE GOVERNMENT FOCUSED ON “WALL STREETS” WANTS INSTEAD.
2. 2009 bill was named hr. 1106 “SAVING FAMILIES FROM FORECLOSURE BILL”
Made it out of subcommittee
Passed through the house
3. It was scheduled for vote in the Senate on April 20, 2009
4. It was scheduled to return to the House on April 21, 2009
5. It was buried in a companion bill “Mortgage Defraud Bill”
6. It was finally voted down on Friday, APRIL 30, 2009, with the help of 10 democratic Senators
7. Lobbying from BANKS AND THE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE NAILED THE COFFIN FOR “THE PEOPLE’S MAINSTREET BAILOUT”…
8. Like a thief in the night, with slippery delays and NO DIRECTION FROM OFA OR WHITEHOUSE.GOV…OR PRESIDENT OBAMA…WE WERE YET AGAIN DUPED!
9. I TOOK THE OFA PLEDGE…ECONOMY, HEALTHCARE AND GREEN ENERGY 1ST…”BUT, ISN’T PLUMMETING HOME PRICES, FORECLOSURE AND PREDATORY LENDING THE “EPICENTER” OF OUR ECONOMIC WOES? WHERE’S THE BEEF, WHERE’S THE REPRESENTATION?
SO MUCH FOR MEASURING THE SUCCESS OF OUR COUNTRY BY HOW WE TREAT THE LEAST AMONGST US...THE LEAST AMONGST US, JUST LOST THE "AMERICAN DREAM"...OUR HOMES!
WHERE WERE YOU MR. PRESIDENT? WHERE WAS THE CALL TO ARMS? THE PETITIONS? WHERE WAS THE TRANSPARENCY? THIS WAS OUR "MAINSTREET BAILOUT"...BANK LOBBYIST WON OUT...
AND THE LEAST AMONGST US... ARE STILL THE LEAST AMONG US.
as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate
Hi everyone... This is the chapter 13th bankruptcy bill that has the teeth to save our citizens from home foreclosure. This bill permits non-partial bankruptcy judges to modify loans by reducing interest rates, extending the loan repayment term and reducing home prices to market value. Therefore, it will make homes affordable again thus, stopping the growing homeless population. PS. BANKS HATE THE IDEA...THEY WANT ALL THE CONTROL OVER MAINSTREET. THIS LAW LEVELS THE PLAYING FIELD. CALL/WRITE YOUR CONGRESS. THIS LAW MUST BE PUSHED TO THE TOP OF OFA'S AGENDA. BILL H.R. 1105 GovTrack: H.R. 200: Text of Legislation, Reported in House
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-200
