The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is currently sponsoring a petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The petition urges the following action: “Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles. Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care.” I support that petition and urge you to sign it here.
Rachel Maddow (together with Keith Obermann) is currently supporting the petition on her MSNBC program, and you can hear her discussion of the petition effort in the video clip below.
Having given appropriate credit to PCCC’s effort to ensure a straight-up vote on a public health insurance option, I am yet left wondering why we so long ago abandoned our efforts to get what we voted for last November—a single payer health insurance system. It seems a shame.
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At the first sign that it would be a fight to pass a single payer national health care bill the Democrats fell back on the idea of public option. The public option will not get the job done. It will not guarantee coverage for every person in America and nothing less than that will truly solve our problem.
I am afraid that there isn’t going to be any genuine reform at all. This is all being turned into a giant giveaway to the health insurance companies. They will have millions of new customers for policies with enormous deductibles and limited benefits. That’s about it.