The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote on amendments to add a choice of a public health insurance option to Max Baucus's bill on Tuesday. Even though your Senators aren't on the Senate Finance Committee, it's urgent that you call your Senators right now and tell them where you stand on a public health insurance option.
Give your Senators a call immediately and tell them where you stand on a public health insurance option! Click here to call.
The Senate Finance Committee is the most conservative committee in the Senate, itself the most conservative house of Congress. And yet, even in the Finance Committee we have a lot of support for a public health insurance option, and you can help us build more.
Please click to call right now and tell your Senators you want the choice of a public health insurance option. The voting will happen on Tuesday, so contact them today!
As Senator Rockefeller said, "There is no alternative to the public health insurance option, the only alternative is the status quo."1
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This is the first in the series of important votes on the public health insurance option. As Senator Schumer said, "If we keep building up support we have a good chance of winning. My prediction is that at the end of the day we will have a good form of the public option in the final bill."
To your health,
Levana Layendecker
Health Care for America Now
1. Schumer and Rockefeller: There Will be a Public Option - Daily Kos