A Message From Congressman Anthony Weiner
The concerns of real Americans should not take a backseat to Beltway politics.
Senator Max Baucus is trying to move his health care proposal closer to a full vote on the Senate floor. While insiders are waiting with bated breath for the so-called ‘score’ to be released any day that will assess the bill’s cost, we need to focus like a laser on the real issue: Baucus’s proposal should have been dead on arrival when he left out the public option.
The health insurance lobby has won virtually everything it has fought for in the Finance Committee to date. Now Senators are debating a bill that does nothing to take health care back from insurance companies. Americans know what is needed: a health care plan that gives all Americans the choice to have affordable, quality health care.
There is only one answer and that is the public option. Let my colleagues in Congress know that any bill without a public option isn’t worth debating.
Anthony
