This is an emergency. In addition to contacting your own representatives, Sen.
Max Baucus and Sen. Olympia Snowe are the ones we need to back off on their plans to eviscerate the public healthcare plan. Please take the time today to call or fax. (Real letters are the best possible thing.)
Also, it's time to squeeze Obama. We want him to veto any plan that arrives without a real public option. You might want to tell him what you think of this:
Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the senior Republican on the Finance Committee, recalled how Mr. Obama made a personal pledge of bipartisanship when he and Senator Max Baucus of Montana, the committee’s Democratic chairman, joined the president for a private lunch at the White House last month.
“I said, ‘Yeah, it’s a problem,’ ” Mr. Grassley said of the public plan, “and he said something along the lines of, ‘If I get 85 percent of what I want with a bipartisan vote, or 100 percent with 51 votes, all Democrat, I’d rather have it be bipartisan.’ ”
Easy for you to say, Mr. President. Spoken like a millionaire with a Cadillac health plan!
WHITE HOUSE
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MAX BAUCUS
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Billings
222 North 32nd Street
Suite 100
Billings, MT 59101
(406) 657-6790
Bozeman, Montana
Federal Building
32 East Babcock
Suite 114
Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 586-6104
Butte, Montana
27 North Wyoming
Suite A
Butte, MT 59701
(406) 782-8700
Great Falls, Montana
113 3rd Street North
Great Falls, MT 59401
(406) 761-1574
(406) 452-1117 (TDD)
Helena, Montana
Empire Block
30 West 14th Street
Suite 206
Helena, MT 59601
(406) 449-5480
Kalispell, Montana
8 Third Street East
Kalispell, MT 59901
(406) 756-1150
Missoula, Montana
280 E. Front St.
Suite 100 Missoula, MT 59802
(406) 329-3123
Washington D.C.
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Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2651(Office)
(202) 224-9412 (Fax)
OLYMPIA SNOWE
Contact form HERE.
LOCATIONS
154 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5344
Toll Free: (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946
Auburn State Office:
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Auburn, ME 04210
Main: (207) 786-2451
Fax: (207) 782-1438
Augusta State Office:
Edmund S. Muskie Federal Building
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Augusta, ME 04330
Main: (207) 622-8292
Fax: (207) 622-7295
Bangor State Office:
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Bangor, ME 04401
Main: (207) 945-0432
Fax: (207) 941-9525
Biddeford State Office:
227 Main Street
Biddeford, ME 04005
Main: (207) 282-4144
Fax: (207) 284-2358
Portland State Office:
3 Canal Plaza
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Main: (207) 874-0883
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Presque Isle State Office:
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Main: (207) 764-5124
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By all means call, and thanks for the call-to-action...
But the powers-that-be want us to be begging for a "public option," when we really should be demanding single payer, with HR 676 being the most tangible opportunity to get us there.
It's the only solution that really makes sense economically and ethically, and the time couldn't be better to get it done (the Bush's-Third-Term Democratic administration's corporatist agenda notwithstanding).
thanks
good catch
I just called Snowe...
... both in DC and at the local office.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Marc Rubin's rhetoric
is really good today:
Don't forget to try emails. The OFA people said they are quite effective.
Policy not party!
Third Way
wisdom from Adam Green
On NewsHour tonight: Former Baucus chief of staff (?) now in WH
working for Obama. Not sure exact role, but it sounded like Bauchus has his man close to Obama and ready to feed the conservative, parasite pampering points to BO.
Damn.
Also, segment on NewsHour about Sunday's OFA meetings, this one in one of the Carolinas. Interestingly, mostly older looking people on the video. Brookings analyst said lots of calls, meetings, even massive petitions will not make much difference as to what Congress/Obama will do. Baby steps; will take years to make any such organization a powerful voice with the powerful. Okaaaay.
Then a discussion with Karen Tumulty and Matt Bai. Bai talked about the Baucus former staffer.
Sheesh.
shorter Brookings
Brookings analyst said lots of calls, meetings, even massive petitions will not make much difference as to what Congress/Obama will do.
give up peasants! accept your powerlessness! Your betters will decide all for you!
this is just another version of "single payer is off the table"
don't believe it
Given what was outlined as the next BHIP* attacks against any
"public plan," the old Big Gov't will come between you and your doctor! Oooooh, scary! Sooooo much more scary than Big Insurer coming between you and your doctor -- and getting right into you wallet and lifetime savings!
Makes me think saying "Medicare for All!" makes it easier for people to visualize a plan that will work for their actual health care. Single payer takes explanations to the uninitiated, takes too long to make clear. But Everybody In, Nobody out of Medicare for All says it all.
Then go into the differences between percentage of each healthcare dollow used for actual patient care, upper 90's for Medicare, compared to Big Insurers, 70-71% with the rest going to Big Insurers, exec compensation, shareholders, and overhead--that is pretty simple to undertand.
*BHIP--Big Health Industry Playahs