Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform
If you are part of MoveOn.org, you may already know about this. Today starts a Virtual March to pressure Congress to enact real health care reform. It is a quick and easy process:
- Go to the MoveOn March Page
- Fill out the info to send Faxes to your Congressional Delegation (this is free and they’ll do it)
- Then CALL Ted Kaufmann (202) 224-5042 and Tom Carper (202) 224-2441 to tell them to Pass the HCR Bill. (Balloon Juice has a primer on how to do it here.)
As you do these steps, MoveOn is keeping a count of the number of contacts made by Virtual Marchers today, which is really interesting. Since I sent my Fax and called this AM and now, they’ve added almost 100K new contacts and this is within 45 minutes or so.
So join in and get this done. I’m especially looking for our lurkers to jump in and make the calls and have MoveOn send a Fax for you. Call or email your friends and family and ask them to do this too. Tell us what your experience was calling their offices today.
This comes by way of Andrew Sullivan, who admires this work from Jake Lewis, who writes here, and who has other work up on his flickr stream here.
Tags: Health Care Reform
Doctors’ Group: Obama Plan Leaves Millions Uninsured, Boosts Private Insurers
by Physicians for National Health Program
“[A]t least 23 million people would remain uninsured, “We know that being uninsured raises your chance of dying by about 40 percent,”
“Regrettably, the president’s proposal is built on some of the worst aspects of the Senate bill,”
said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer, Medicare-for-All approach to reform.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/02/24-5
Complete bullshit.
The number of people in the U.S who died from ALL causes: 2,403,351
http://www.the-eggman.com/writings/death_stats.html
75% of all deaths in any given year in the U.S are people between the ages of 65 and 100.
56.5% of all deaths are people over the age of 75.
People die, its not always due to lack of health insurance.
Also, if two drug dealers shoot and kill each other, and they don’t have health insurance, they died because they didn’t have health insurance??
Apparently, Move-on counts them.
You are an Idiot, Galt.
And you’ve posted nothing that gets anywhere near refuting the numbers — or their sources — shown above.
But we already know a spectacular innumeracy is a predicate condition for being a conservative.
Call Carper and Kaufman. Tell them to vote “no” if there is no public option in the bill.
HCR 2010 = WMD 2002. Obomba lies while HCR dies.
As reported earlier, the conference committees could reinsert the public option, since there is majority rule only in Conference Committees, link the Health Care Reform Bill to all government funding, not bring it up for a vote until the last wee hours of this Congressional session, when if the bill did not pass, the Congress would have to stay in town to work through Christmas Week, and if they did, they would be doing nothing any different than did Phil Gramm, with deregulating the security industry in 2000.
The only difference would be thus: Phil Gramm was working for evil and himself. The Public Option was working for good and the American people….
“We know that being uninsured raises your chance of dying by about 40 percent,”
My chance ?
It is Moveon not Gualt that doesn’t site sources. His come from government stats, there’s can’t be directly refuted because they are not even qualified let alone sourced.
Just pull the plug on the bills and start with Wyden Bennett. It would be bipartisan, cheaper, and cover more people. This is about power not health care.
Democrats NEVER use scare tactics.
If the GOP wanted to pass a bill and make our edged up system a little better that would be one thing. But since we know the Republicans only goal is to fuck shit up, I don’t take suggestions like the one above seriously.
TPN, funny how republicans like yourself are all about the founding fathers now. Too bad we didn’t see a little of that spirit when Rove was calling the shots.
Well, Tyler may not be a good example. Tyler has more than a few instances where he let the libertarian in him take over enough to decry the Bush Administration. But to the larger point Jason is right. The vast majority of all teabaggers were conveniently silent during the Bush years while the spending they hate so much was really goin on. Which is why the teabagger movement is not and never has been about spending. It is about race.
The teabaggers keep invoking the Founding Fathers in support of their agenda. Which is your basic “Appeal To Authority” rhetorical strategy. It is really just another variant of magical thinking common to conservatives, desperate to find some semblance of a logical justification for their vision of an authoritarian oligarchy.
They would like you to believe that if Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington were to suddenly materialize under the Capitol Dome, they would be aghast at our government and would, with a wave of their hand, order everything set back the way it was in their day.
Frickin’ juvenile pipe dream.
If the Founding Fathers reappeared, they would have to get in line and run for office just like everyone else, because of the very system they created. And their ideas would be judged by modern people living in modern times. If Thomas Jefferson ran for Senate on a platform of abolishing Social Security, he would rightly get his ass handed to him just like anybody else would.