Important Message Re: Health Reform Legislation: PROTEST HR 3962, Or Be Stuck With Corporate Medical Insurance Racket For The Rest Of Our Lives

“Folks, we are dedicating the next couple months of our lives to stopping the phony reform, and forcing Congress to get real about good public policy. The bill that passed the House last week, HR 3962, represents one of the most profound betrayals in American political history. Forget the fact that the Republicans oppose it as well, they would oppose anything coming out of a Congress where they did not have majority control. WE must oppose HR 3962 because it is a transparent sham, a total sellout to the medical insurance industry.”

Who Else Wants To Get SERIOUS About Real Health Care Reform??

We need the help of every one of our participants who has a website (if not please read on because there is an individual action page as well). We have created a simple and small sized (182×228 pixels) web page module, perfect for the side bar of your web page, where people can watch the latest of the “I’m A Democrat, And I’m A Republican” videos. To get this feature for your website just put the following code anywhere on your web page.

“http://tcxs.net/1.js“>

If you are on MySpace or Facebook or another site that disallows javascript, you can copy the alternate code from this page.

http://www.peaceteam.net/mfa.htm

We have already shot six of these incredibly professional looking videos, making the point (with wit and humor) that NEITHER the Democrats, NOR the Republicans, are actually interested in real health care reform. The Democrats are forcing consideration of only plans that further empower the medical insurance corporations that are ripping us off now. The Republican are only interested in derelict non-regulation, achieving the same end result by default.

By getting more and more people to watch these videos, we will mobilize people to submit this fax action page, which sends a strongly worded but even tempered petition (which you can read on the page), stating in essence that we the people are demanding real reform and will not be fooled again. And you can add your own personal comments as well. WATCH the video also on this page.

Medicare For All FREE Fax Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1020.php

There will be a new video release in the “I’m A Democrat, I’m A Republican” series once a week, and the web page module will automatically update with the latest video. And we are asking you, our participants to submit the petition yourself ALSO once a week. We need to speak out and keep speaking out, until Congress finally gets the message, to stop fooling around and do what should have been done in the first place, pass economical and efficient Medicare for All.

Folks, we are dedicating the next couple months of our lives to stopping the phony reform, and forcing Congress to get real about good public policy. The bill that passed the House last week, HR 3962, represents one of the most profound betrayals in American political history. Forget the fact that the Republicans oppose it as well, they would oppose anything coming out of a Congress where they did not have majority control. WE must oppose HR 3962 because it is a transparent sham, a total sellout to the medical insurance industry.

You don’t have to believe us. Believe the corporate analysts themselves gloating about the additional windfall profits they are predicting from this fatally corrupt bill, that purports to FORCE all Americans to buy a plan from a lobbyist designed restrictive “market”, where at least 90% of the American people would be excluded from participating in the feeble non-competitive “public” option provided, even if we wanted to. They might as well now call it the “welfare” option, because all it really represents is welfare FOR the insurance companies.

The Republicans condemn the bill because they demagogue that it does too much. The truth is that it does so LITTLE, that by the time the Senate gets through with it we expect there will be nothing left that any progressive could cheer about. The ultimate Benedict Arnold, Joe Lieberman says HR 3962 is dead on arrival. So we might as well throw it in the medical waste bin where it belongs and start from scratch, then let him try to filibuster what the American people REALLY want.

And we are especially ashamed of the Congressional so-called “Progressive” Caucus which, except for Kucinich and Massa, have demonstrated once again how utterly worthless they are as representatives for the people of their districts.

From time to time we will get email from some of you arguing that there is no point in emailing hardcore Republicans, for those of you who live in such districts where that is your current representation. We disagree about that of course. Never should we let the worst members of Congress think that even people in their own districts are just going to roll over and take just keep taking it in silence.

But for crying out loud, at least the liberals ought to be listening to us. And for the presumptive liberals to wave through a bill that as a bottom line makes exploitive and overpriced corporate insurance MANDATORY, under threat of the police power of the IRS, is so outrageous it defies belief. Each and every one of these gutless wonders needs to hear our protests now.

Medicare For All FREE Fax Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1020.php

And if that wasn’t bad enough, the Stupak amendment, forbidding a woman to even use her own money to pay for an abortion, because no plan in the new market will be allowed to provide such a service, even if the plan that woman was forced to buy was paid for with 100% of her own money, is so far out into reactionist wowee-wowee land, it is incredulous that any so-called progressive could have voted for final passage with such a provision in there, especially as they had already SWORN not to support a bill with such a weak joke of a public plan.

So now, and only in response to our outrage, some of them are backtracking, SAYING that draconian anti-choice provision needs to come out of the final bill. Have you ever heard such worthless lip service in your life (apart from their lip service of last week, last month, the year before that, etc.)? Where were the voices of these miserable cowards in Congress, trying to pass themselves off as our progressive representatives, when they voted for FINAL passage in the first place? Who can count on them to put up a fight even one time any time in the future, if they could and would not do so last week?

And the ultimate answer remains what it has always been. IF AND WHEN enough of us speak out at ONCE, and declare that we will no longer support their perpetual shinola, then and only then will we get real policy change. We live for the day when we can build such a base to make it so. That day can be today! So please submit the fax action page once a week, encourage everyone you know to do the same, put the video module on all of your websites so we can get hundreds of thousands of views, and like numbers of action page submissions. Then we will have a real movement for real policy change.

And here is the one click Facebook page for this same fax action.

Single Payer Amendments Action: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1020

And the Twitter reply to send, to send this message to all your members of Congress that way, is

@cxs #p1020

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

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