There have been recent press reports that the White House is considering weakening the Public Option for a vote from Republican Olympia Snowe. President Obama has long supported the public option, and I’m not inclined to stop supporting him because of rumors in the press.
Still, the President needs to be reminded about what is most important – a strong public option. Its more important that working towards bipartisanship and its certainly more important than the vote of one Republican whose vote isn’t even needed to pass reform.
Join BoldProgessives.org and sign the petition to tell President Obama to stick by the Public Option and the people who put him in office!
Its hard to express how angry I am at the “Democrats” in the Senate Finance Committee who voted against the amendments to add a public option to their version of the Health Care Reform legislation.
We are in the middle of a financial crisis caused by greedy corporations and power-hungry politicians that has devastated communities across the world.
Preventing the creation of a public option that would hold private companies accountable in the name of keeping costs down is nonsensical. Blocking health care reform in order to protect insurance company profits is disgusting. And doing so as a representative of the Democratic Party is inexcusable.
Democrats who betray the ideals of their own party and disregard the wishes and best interests of their constituents deserve to be held accountable.
There are many ways to strike back against this betrayal of the people’s interests and I encourage everyone taking action on this issue to share their tactics far and wide. One way is to contribute to ActBlue’s “Hold Max Baucus Accountable” ad campaign. Their goal is to raise $200,000 to air the video below [as well as one targeting Republican Senator Olympia Snowe] in Montana and Maine.
Whatever we do, we can’t give up. We need to continue to ask the question that Bing asks in the ad above:
Senator Baucus, when you take millions of dollars from health insurance interests that oppose reform and oppose getting families like mine the choice of a public option, I have to ask, who’s side are you on?
