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We Demand a Public Option

Target: President Obama and U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2
More than 40 million Americans - our friends, our children's schoolmates and our own family members - have no health insurance. This crisis not only costs us money, but it is costing lives:

  • 18,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance - that's 50 people every day
  • 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day
  • More than 60 percent of people who go bankrupt do so because of medical bills

    • Health care should not be a privilege for the wealthy and the lucky. And health care reform should not be written by the private insurance lobby. We need real reform for real people, and it MUST include a public option.

    President Obama and Congress: We demand a public option!
    deadline: Ongoing...
    goal: 10,000
     
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    Dear President Obama and members of Congress:

    I am a concerned citizen who has followed the health care reform debates, and I am deeply disturbed at the possibility of a public option being dropped from the final health care reform bill.

    I demand a public option as part of any final health care reform legislation. [YOUR PERSONAL COMMENTS HERE]

    Too many Americans suffer from lack of insurance or from being under-insured. Health insurance profits are obscene. I want my tax dollars to be spent on people, not private profits. I want a public option to hold private insurers accountable and keep health care costs affordable for all Americans.

    Please ensure that any health care reform bill you pass includes a public option. Anything less does not constitute real reform.

    Sincerely,
    [YOUR NAME]
    [YOUR ADDRESS]
    We demand a public option!
    # 5,039:
    8:51 pm PST, Nov 21, Michael Barth, California
    # 5,038:
    12:15 pm PST, Nov 21, Michael Carney, New Jersey
    # 5,037:
    10:59 am PST, Nov 21, Chris Kuhar, Virginia
    # 5,036:
    10:28 am PST, Nov 21, Loris Caldero, Massachusetts
    # 5,035:
    8:37 am PST, Nov 21, Connie Raper, North Carolina
    # 5,034:
    8:21 am PST, Nov 21, Katie Thicke, Canada
    # 5,033:
    5:48 am PST, Nov 21, Richelle Kabat, Colorado
    # 5,032:
    9:58 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Thacker, Alaska
    A public option is non-negotiable. I have health insurance and when I had my cataract surgery I paid $2,000 out of my own pocket! When my husband had his double hip replacement we paid $7,800 per hip out of our own pockets! That is $17,600 in one year that we had to pay for health care!
    # 5,031:
    7:50 pm PST, Nov 20, Maria Nieto, California
    # 5,030:
    12:40 pm PST, Nov 20, Teresa Mac Tavish, Canada
    # 5,029:
    12:18 pm PST, Nov 20, Susana Lax, Florida
    Profit based insurance companies will never give us affordable insurance.
    # 5,028:
    10:24 am PST, Nov 20, Laura Bretschneider, Sweden
    # 5,027:
    6:41 am PST, Nov 20, Ive Pignolati, Brazil
    # 5,026:
    4:32 am PST, Nov 20, Rachel Faber, New Jersey
    # 5,025:
    4:08 am PST, Nov 20, Chris Green, Florida
    # 5,024:
    6:57 pm PST, Nov 19, Brande Pickerel, Washington
    # 5,023:
    3:02 pm PST, Nov 19, Donna Snyder, Pennsylvania
    # 5,022:
    1:47 pm PST, Nov 19, Harold Meyer jr, Connecticut
    # 5,021:
    12:22 pm PST, Nov 19, Sally Miner, Connecticut
    # 5,020:
    9:34 am PST, Nov 19, Deborah Gorman, New York
    # 5,019:
    4:44 pm PST, Nov 18, Name not displayed, Missouri
    Profit based insurance companies will never give us affordable insurance. Public option is a must. Do it. The wealthy, who pick the pockets of their workers, should pay for it.
    # 5,018:
    3:11 pm PST, Nov 18, Karisa Cotter, Arkansas
    # 5,017:
    2:25 pm PST, Nov 18, Alesia Febus, New York
    The public option is not optional!
    # 5,016:
    9:38 am PST, Nov 18, Lisa Terrell, Ohio
    # 5,015:
    9:30 am PST, Nov 18, Thomas White, Virginia
    Dear Senator Webb and Senator Warner Please support the Public Option. It'll save millions and millions of Americans like me from rising cost of healthcare.
    # 5,014:
    5:54 am PST, Nov 18, Susanne Dawn Plumb, California
    # 5,013:
    5:03 am PST, Nov 18, Mike Cohn, Michigan
    Opponents speak of death panels? Insurance companies ARE death panels!
    # 5,012:
    10:19 pm PST, Nov 17, Michelle Harris-Shields, Kentucky
    # 5,011:
    7:36 pm PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, California
    # 5,010:
    2:04 pm PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, Florida
    It is shameful that we are still debating .... the need for real reform!
    # 5,009:
    2:00 pm PST, Nov 17, Maria Palenchar, Florida
    Americans deserve health care reform with true access and an honest public option.
    # 5,008:
    1:42 pm PST, Nov 17, Joel Stern, Florida
    Americans shouldn't have to go bankrupt if they get sick!!!
    # 5,007:
    1:19 pm PST, Nov 17, Sandra Deneault, Canada
    # 5,006:
    10:02 am PST, Nov 17, Nicholas Labyk, Ohio
    # 5,005:
    9:08 am PST, Nov 17, Gladys Cruz, Connecticut
    # 5,004:
    7:44 am PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California
    # 5,003:
    6:43 am PST, Nov 17, Howard Christoffers, Arkansas
    # 5,002:
    12:50 am PST, Nov 17, Susannah Ford-Crush, United Kingdom
    # 5,001:
    11:36 pm PST, Nov 16, Roger Hannah, Illinois
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