Dear MoveOn member,
The latest Senate health care bill has no public option. No expansion of Medicare. And it does too little to guarantee that uninsured Americans will actually be able to afford the coverage they’ll be required to purchase.
Former insurance executive Wendell Potter put it best: the bill is “a big bailout to the [health insurance] industry.”....
more about MoveOn's position- http://pol.moveon.org/block/Former Governor Howard Dean said on Thursday;"If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these...." Full Op-Ed in Washington Post- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/16/AR2009121601906.htmlIt would seem that Reid is loosing the progressive side of the liberal power and grassroots base. This is good news for those who want to see the bill be defeated. It also might offer the opportunity to slow things down and for a true dialoge, transpartisan in nature, to occur about American medicine. I wont hold my breath on that occuring here in DC, where the institutions of power and the poitical class dont seem interested except in their narrow self interest.
The Progressive Left says NO to Reid's Bill
Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:28PM This week various center-left organizations and individuals came out against the bill that Senator Reid has been pushing in the Senate to reform medicine.
MoveOn, one of the most powerful players on the left with 5 million members sent the following email to its membership;
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