This is the beginning of the end.
After a year of debate, we finally passed the Senate health care bill – along with a package of important improvements – in the House of Representatives.
We made historic progress, but this fight isn’t over. Now we must put pressure on the Senate to take up every single one of our improvements to their bill.
Click here to sign my petition to tell the Senate to line up the final bill with the House’s version.
I know that, even with the fixes, this bill was not close to what many of us wanted. We didn’t get a chance to include a public option, even though I still believe it could have carried a majority in the Senate.
But I also believe that we could not afford to pass up this opportunity. The current bill will ensure that 32 million people without health insurance gain coverage. It will save $1.2 trillion. It will end the worst insurance company abuses. And it will create jobs at a time when we desperately need them.
This was not the best bill that we could have passed, but I am proud of what we achieved in the face of a Republican opposition that relied on the worst kind of lies and millions of dollars of insurance industry money poured through the halls of Congress.
We made historic progress, but this fight isn’t over. Now we must put pressure on the Senate to take up every single one of our improvements to their bill.
We know that Republicans and insurance companies will descend to the lowest levels of deliberate misinformation to block progress. Last night was a big defeat for the GOP obstruction machine, but we still have work to do, and I’m counting on you to help keep pressure on the Senate.
Click here to sign my petition to tell the Senate to line up the final bill with the House’s version.
Anthony
Health care opponents don’t have any more excuses.
Yesterday’s Congressional Budget Office “score” shows the health care bill would be even better than expected at reducing the deficit. If you’re serious about cutting spending, you have to be supporting this bill.
Sometimes it feels more like we’re playing a game of “Health Care Chutes and Ladders” – climbing forward one day, slipping back the next – but we’re getting near the top of the board.
To finish the job, I challenged 5,000 grassroots donors to show Congress that Americans want real reform. I need your help to meet that goal before the health care vote this weekend.
Click here to rush a contribution to my campaign. Even as little as $5 will help us to reach our goal of 5,000 donors before the vote this weekend.
This bill will cut costs for everyone, protect the uninsured, and actually reduce the budget deficit. And we’ve never been closer to getting it done.
Thanks for your continued support. I know I can count on you to help me build our voice for real, progressive reform during this weekend’s pivotal health care vote.
Anthony
Fool us once? Shame on you. Fool us two hundred and ninety times? Shame on us.
Two hundred and ninety times in this Congress alone, the Senate has failed to act on bills passed by the House of Representatives. Can we really trust the Senate with the future of this health care bill that so many people are counting on?
In an attempt to finally move health care reform past the finish line, the powers-that-be are asking us to trust the Senate to do the right thing. We’re told that the House may have to pass the weaker Senate bill before the Senate can fix the many shortcomings of its initial plan.
I’m worried that the Senate is not ready for that kind of responsibility. Their original bill was too weak and didn’t do enough for the middle class families that are struggling to stay afloat. The Senate has yet to show enough mettle to make the necessary changes to their current bill to make this the kind of reform that the majority of Americans want and are counting on.
We’ve heard that a majority of senators want a public option. Now the real challenge will be making sure those sensible voices do not get overpowered by the obstructionist Republicans.
Anthony
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