Stop typing and call 202-224-2651 if you want Single Payer

Call Max Baucus (D) (202-224-2651) - Chair of the Senate Finance committee - today and tell him you want the Public Option included in any health care bill. His committee is a critical gate and they are dicsussing this issue today. Tell him it's essential to getting real health care reform in the US. Tell him it will be good for the economy and small businesses and will make American companies more competitive. Tell him - as a Democrat - that it's not negotiable. If we don't get the Public Option we won't get true health care reform. (And with the Public Option, when American's understand the choice they now have, the system will evolve to single payer pretty quickly.)

Jessica Holiday has a message on that line.

of some woman...I didn't get the name?


But I still left a message...

Hope it helps!

Sorry - original number was wrong. the correct number is 202-224-2651 - please recommend

K&R

--d!

The person that answered the phone was very polite and respectful...

Sounded like a young man...

Call and DEMAND SINGLE PAYER!

This 'public option' is bullshit bait and switch. We have seen it many times before.

My understanding of this issue is that if we push to "take away" the private insurance from the people who (for whatever reason) still believe it is a good thing - we will fail, as the Clinton's failed, because the Health Insurance Lobby will push the "fear button" that the government is going to "force" people to give up their current healthcare and we will lose enough political support to actually lose the battle. Instead, if we are successful in getting a real Public Option, people will naturally gravitate towards it and over time we will end up with Single Payer. I'm not concerned about labels - I want to fundamentally change the Health Care System in the US and I believe that our best chance to actually do that is to pass a bill with a real Public Option as part of the package.