By Padmini Arhant
Dear Mr. Vice President and Rep. Van Hollen,
Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your request. However, the required information sent on priority basis should be available prior to the deadline.
Enclosed please find the contribution and the survey completed with specific targets vital for immediate economic recovery and national progress.
I appreciate your kind remarks and the invitation to participate in the legislative affairs. I pledge my support to defend the policies benefiting the people of the United States of America as well as the global citizens.
Furthermore, I consider it’s really important for the incumbent and the prospective legislators to make a firm commitment to serve the people electing them to office and not become the proxies for the special interests. I reiterate the fact that despite millions of dollars in investments towards any political campaigns, the ultimate power lies with the electorate in a democracy.
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Thank you.
Padmini Arhant
It has been widely reported across the news wires that Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee has released a financial regulation reform bill. Through tough regulation, it will seek financial stability and consumer financial protection and justice.
We in the working/middleclass are being stripped of what little equity we have accumulated. We are forced to accept sub-standard wages, less employer benefits and in millions of cases...under/un-employment.
You can bet, the republicans and blue dog democrats are already planning on voting NO and introducing countless amendments to weaken or water down the legislation. You can be assured, they are planning endless delays. They will follow the same game plan as they did and are doing with health care. Joined by the wallets, the republicans and blue dog democrats will be relentless with their shady tactics.
We OFA members must become active again and counter their corruptive efforts. We cannot and should not expect President Barack Obama to fight this second front alone. It is time to gather the troops and bring re-enforcements to the already tired progressives on capitol hill. Stand-up and plan a strategy on how to bring aid to our fellow progressives. I still have hope, I know you do to. Stand-up, smile and be proud of what you are doing. You are not alone.
7 November 2009
Dear Congressman Rehberg:
I am writing in support of the current health care bill being debated in The House today. As a member of a life-long Montana family, I am concerned about this nation’s broken health care system, and the high percentage (more than 34%) of Montanans without health insurance. I encourage you to break from the partisan politics being played by the Republican party, think about those uninsured in the state you represent and VOTE FOR THIS BILL!
There is no reason this great country should have such a high number of uninsured. No one should be forced to choose between paying their rent or buying food and going to the doctor or getting their prescriptions. Allowing this to continue is un-American.
Do the right thing for Montana and vote YES for H.R. 3962.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Kello
The Congress is engaged in the Medicare payments to doctors as part of the broader aspect of the health care legislation. Despite the opposition’s insinuations against the government run successful Medicare program, it’s imperative for the lawmakers to sustain the viability of the Medicare and the Medicaid by honoring the providers’ legitimate request for payments increase that would substantially reduce the health care costs currently incurred by the taxpayers through payments to private insurers.
As stated earlier, the conservative and the moderate Democrats’ unwillingness to support the public option is contributing to the stalemate in the health care legislation. Even though, the recent Washington Post/ABC Poll confirmed that an impressive 57 percent of the American population is overwhelmingly in favor of the ‘public option’ plan, some Democratic legislators’ reluctance to join the majority on this issue is disappointing and deserve a valid explanation for their position that is detrimental to the national interest.
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Hon. President Bill Clinton. New York
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you for your letter. It’s truly an honor to receive your request.
I share your thoughts and concerns about the 2010 elections outcome. Needless to say, that you have experience with the opposition majority during your presidency and the challenges you faced in the legislative process with the “Government Shut Down” led by the former speaker Newt Gingrich and the republican allies. Although, I agree that the Senators competing for their first term or re-election require the grassroots/base support, the general public perception from the health care debate is - the conservative and the moderate democrats forget their promise to the electorate that initially support them to get where they are now.
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I recently recieved in my e-mail inbox an awful idea saying that supporters of President Obama should all honk at each other to show their support. Unlike whoever came up with that idea, I take my support of President Obama very seriously. So I wanted to offer some thoughts in the form of a blog on what things will actually help President Obama win reellection in 2012.
I am so furious with the recent demand by Olympia Snowe that Congress "take the public option off the table." Just who do Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats think they are? Public polling shows overwhelming support for the public option. Why do the minorities: the right wing fringe, the Senate Finance Committee, the Republican politicians still in office, think they have the right to dictate the kind of reform or lack of reform that all Americans receive? Four out of five Congressional committees have created bills with a public option, and the Senate Finance Committee isn't so powerful that they get to determine the direction of reform with their faulty, Group of Six panel. I just cannot stand how much coverage they get in the media and how much importance they're given in this debate. It isn't accurate and it isn't right.
The title says all you need to know about this "prez'dint's" commitment to "bipartisanship".But bipartisanship doesn't matter anyway…the Democrats have the votes to ram this crap through without a single Republican committing political suici, "joining them"…The only reason obama or the Democrats want Republican participation in the upcoming disaster is so that they'll have someone to blame when the American people turn on them!!!
BY Chisco on 09/09/2009 at 12:03
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/57859-boehner-gop-leaders-havent-met-obama-for-health-talks-since-april
Public Option National Health Care, not Wealth Care, NOW
Dear Republican Senators:
The health care system is broken. We need to see the old system gone. Will your greed join theirs or will you do what's right for the people of this country? Please do more to make a difference and to be an ethical representative of the people. We do not want to see any more "noise" tactics, and disinformation. Don't republicans stand for better than that? Has it become simply the party of lies, deceit and money? We hope not.
We want fair, Public Option National Health Care NOW.
Our family want to see politicians supporting National Health Care with a PUBLIC OPTION- and not simply advancing the cause of the power health sector. Ideally for all Americans, we can achieve "Medicare for all," and break their grip for good. We're sure even Republicans can see a benefit in not being ripped off by insurance and drug companies- you have families too.
We cannot believe the resistance to something so needed and the defense of an old system so rife with greed, waste and corruption. Have Republicans been bought and paid for by the drug and insurance companies? It's all over the news the kinds of contributions Republican politicians are taking and how beholden the party has become to the health sector in general. We can only hope you do what is right and resist the temptation of greed.
We have cancelled our Kaiser policy due to their denial of benefits to their policy holders (customers, Americans) and the general ways in which they treat people in need. We know and have experienced this system that is ruled by the drug and insurance industries, which has an obvious conflict of interest with the healthy and the sick. We know people are being denied even the care they've paid for. The existing system is only concerned with keeping people drugged and sick, and worse. PLEASE support a public option national health care plan today.
Our family, our country, cannot take any more parasitic greed and profit-driven sick care. So, we'll be watching and anticipating your actions to pass a Public Option National Health Care plan NOW.
The Fauve Family
Give me bankruptcy or give me death?
The Status Quo- Insurance Scam.
I work in the medical field and healthcare reform is a great idea. It's about time.
I've sat by powerless, while many people have died in my care waiting for insurance companies to authorize non-formulary medications or treatments. Most people are healthy and don't realize how small the list of authorized formulary items is, until it's too late. Bankruptcy or Death is not what Americans should have to choose between. Health Security should be a right.
Even greedy self-loathing hypocrites whom don't like being GUARANTEED protection will someday need more than they can afford, so then, its illness or bankruptcy or DEATH for themselves or a loved one. Anyone who has tried calling an insurance company knows the truth. There is almost no regulation and mostly people just dance in circles with the insurance companies until it is too late. Time is on the insurance companies’ side. For them, time is money and for us or our families it may be a matter of health or death.
It's time to put the notion of bipartisanship on the back burner and move ahead with a real "partisan" plan for healthcare reform with a public option. We would not have Social Security if FDR had waited around for a bipartisan consensus. The Republicans are the minority by quite a margin!
It is abundantly clear that the Republican Party has a plan to demean, disrupt and destroy anything this Democratic, Obama Administration does. There is no point trying to coop someone or something that has no other mission but destroying you. The Republicans are terrorists, they are equivalent to the Taliban in every way. The Republican members of the Senate and Congress are disloyal and traitorous "dogs-in-the-manger" snapping and growling at everything in sight since they lost the election.
The strategy for Democrats must be that we're going to do this without you. Every Democratic Senator and Congressman needs to be on board or not count on any support from the party in the next election. It is time for Democratic Senators and Congressman to vote the party line for the sake of the country and the future of the party in all elections.
It doesn't matter what the Republicans do if Democrats stick together and do what needs to be done. The moderates and independents who have any skepticism about Health Care Reform will come around when they see what the actual reality is; as opposed to all the hype being generated by the Republican Party and their Insurance Company bosses. Let the Republicans filibuster, no force them to filibuster so that America can see what they really are about.
It's also time to call the Republicans out on all their lies and abuses. Democratic Senators and Congressman need to speak up and be heard. I'm tired of listening to the constant BS put out by the Republicans and their has been friends like Tom Delay. The media will love hearing from the Democratic Party, and the public will start to respect Democrats only when we stand up and fight these right wing liars.
The right wing doesn't care how many lies they tell. They believe there are enough Americans out there who want to believe all these lies. Republicans want to create a negative vibe about everything so as to damage the Democratic Administration and create fear. The tactics have not changed since Ronald Reagan.
During the election Obama did not let anything go unchallenged. He fought back. Now is no different except we need to go on the offense as well.
Americans don't respect anyone who doesn't come out swinging when it's necessary.
Health Care Reform - Former Rear Admiral Rep. Joe Sestak Vet benefits and VA would be increasedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C7MnTdbf84 (video)
Bush administration kicked out about 265,000 vets in 2003 and now it’s about 500,000 vets.
Bush administration cut funding to VA2 billion in 20032 billion in 20042 billion in 20052 billion in 2006
The Obama health care reform brings them back in.
VA gets an 11% increase over 5 years and it’s the largest increase in it’s history.
VA is exempt from the 2.5% tax.
Health Insurance Reform is business as usual without the public option. I was very disappointed to hear President Barack Obama say in Grand Junction, Colorado that the public option is a sliver of the whole. Looking at the big picture, it may not be the main part, but 40-50 million Americans without any kind of access to quality health care is a large limb, not a sliver.
Blue Dog Democrats should back President Obama with the public option. The large health insurance companies are jaded, and care nothing for people. They only want to make more money at the expense of the American people.
Greed and indifference have to stop. We have to return to being a nation of people who care about people. Enough of the Republican mentality of winning any way possible — even when it comes to nominating incompetent people who can win an election, but cannot run a country. The Republicans excel at this. It happened with the Bush campaign, and the McCain campaign. Does anyone really think Sara Palin could handle the executive office responsibly? Not me. I shudder to think about it.
The public option is too important not to be included in Health Insurance Reform. Blue Dog Democrats need to back the president. Anything less, and they should be considered traitors to their party.
As the Democrats try and fight off the big insurance companies and pass strong health insurance reform legislation, it appears obvious that they will be doing it with no help at all from whatever is left of the former Republican party. I say “former” because in the last 6 months, they have shown that they are against ANY change for the better – even those that Republicans supposedly supported in the past. All of the savings people would get from lower insurance costs? They’re against it. Lowering the deficit with a strong public option that could compete with insurance companies? They’re against it. All of the jobs created from the car sales instigated by the incredibly successful Cash for Clunkers program? They’re against it. You name it, they’re against it – even lower taxes (which were a big part of the President’s stimulus and recovery plan passed earlier this year.)
In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find what exactly these former Republicans are FOR, but based on their activities in recent months, I can point to two things: Teabagging and Torture. These are the folks that have recently been going way out of their districts (with the funding of insurance company lobbyists) to disrupt town hall meetings and keep real constituents from being able to communicate with their Representatives. Since they have no argument, their plan is simply to yell and drown out any discussion. The Teabag and Torture party isn’t interested in democracy, they’re interested in gumming up the works.
