Speak Out for Health Care Reform

Dear Friend,

I’m writing to you today to address the enormous challenge to reform our broken health care system. Congress is gearing up to tackle this important issue and finally provide affordable, accessible health care for every single American.

But there are politicians and powerful lobbyists in Washington, D.C. doing everything in their power to stop this from happening.

Partisan pollster Frank Luntz recently laid out a plan intended to help Republicans kill any attempt at health care reform. If that wasn’t bad enough, last week the Minority Leader used these exact talking points designed solely to scare and deceive the American people on the floor of the senate.

I couldn’t sit idly by and allow harmful misinformation about health care reform go unchallenged, I had to speak out:

These talking points are being echoed in this very chamber, in this very chamber in order to kill health care. Let’s see. Here we go. Frank Luntz’s memo, that’s his memo on how to kill health care, came out in April. It says – talking point number five – “Health denial care horror stories from Canada and other countries do resonate, but you have to humanize them. We recommend the phrase ‘government takeover’ rather than ‘government run’ or ‘government control.’” Why? Because government takeover sounds even scarier.

So what did we hear in the chamber from our minority leader just recently? I quote – “Americans are concerned about a government takeover of health care and for good reason.” And it goes on – so recognize that that is a point that’s coming from a document about how to kill health care, not a responsible debate about the plan we have in front of us.

Read the entire speech, or watch the video at Huffington Post.

Join me and send a message to opponents of health care reform that we will not let them win this important battle. We cannot allow their dishonest tactics prevent our friends, family and neighbors from having access to the health care services they desperately need.

In the coming weeks Congress will be debating what kind of health care reform will be best for our nation. I believe Americans should have a choice when it comes to their health care coverage. If you like the health care you have, you should be able to keep it. If you want a public option that will provide quality care at a reduced cost, you should have that choice.

Sign the petition and urge Congress to include a public option in health care reform and give Americans the choice they deserve.

Nearly 50 million Americans are uninsured and millions more are under-insured. American families are going bankrupt because of exorbitant health care costs. Our seniors have to pick and choose what medicines they can afford. We are better than this. The time is now for affordable, accessible health care for all.

Join me in this fight and together we can make a difference.

Jeff

Posted June 15, 2009
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