No time, no time, must rush out the door! For fun with friends! Whoo hoo!
But before I go, Tim F. over at Balloon Juice reminds us all that – hey, don’t know if you’ve noticed yet? But we still don’t have health care reform.
If you haven’t called your Representative or your Senators yet about this, please do. If you have already: Please do it again.
Ask your Representative to pass.the.damn.bill (that is, the Senate version of the bill), and ask your Senators to agree to reconciliation, so that the Democrats in the House of Representatives will know ahead of time that they won’t be screwed by the Senate for doing the dirty work of passing a bill they’re not all that crazy about.
You know what? I’m not all that crazy about the bill. I, personally, would like to see a single-payer system.
But you know what else? If we don’t get started, if we don’t pass something that we can then tinker with and make better, millions of people will continue to suffer, and suffer more, and our economy will continue to take massive hit after massive hit because of ballooning health care costs that do not need to be ballooning!
And while you’re at it, call the White House, too, and tell your President that health care reform remains a big priority for you. Obama is apparently going to be unveiling his own idea for a bill, and it would be good if he heard from his constituents that they actually want a workable bill passed.
To speak with your Representative and Senators, call the Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121
To call the White House: (202) 456-1111
To bone up on the basics of making these calls, read this earlier Tim F. post at Balloon Juice.
Please do this. As citizens of a democracy, this is our job.
Thanks! And have a great weekend!
