The Time for Health Care for All is Now: All of our Voices are Needed!
President Obama is trying to reform our broken health care system, which has left more than 45 million Americans uninsured and millions more with insurance that won't provide the treatment they need.
Some in Congress are with Obama. But the insurance industry, with help from Republicans and so-called centrist Democrats, is leading the charge to kill a key part of his plan -- a government-run insurance plan that would increase the number of Americans covered, called the "public option." Industry groups are spending millions -- $35 million in lobbying costs alone -- to convince people that they won't be able to choose their doctor, that government will be making their medical decisions, that they'd be forced to take the government's plan, and that the plan is part of some socialist plot -- all lies. In reality, the insurance industry is trying to protect its enormous profits on the backs of everyday people.
For Black folks, the stakes couldn't be higher...
Several organizations have pushed back, including www.MoveOn.org -- a key partner of ours in this fight -- but it will take all of us standing up if we want to win. A public option makes sense for the country as a whole, and it makes particularly good sense for Black folks. Many of us make too much to qualify for Medicaid but either aren't eligible for or aren't adequately covered by private, employer-based plans. Overall, 21% of Blacks are uninsured, compared to 12% of Whites.
Take a minute to tell our lawmakers that the first step toward improving our health care system is including a public plan that makes good health something everyone can afford. And when you do, please ask your friends and family to do the same:
http://www.colorofchange.org/health/
Some in Congress are with Obama. But the insurance industry, with help from Republicans and so-called centrist Democrats, is leading the charge to kill a key part of his plan -- a government-run insurance plan that would increase the number of Americans covered, called the "public option." Industry groups are spending millions -- $35 million in lobbying costs alone -- to convince people that they won't be able to choose their doctor, that government will be making their medical decisions, that they'd be forced to take the government's plan, and that the plan is part of some socialist plot -- all lies. In reality, the insurance industry is trying to protect its enormous profits on the backs of everyday people.
For Black folks, the stakes couldn't be higher...
Several organizations have pushed back, including www.MoveOn.org -- a key partner of ours in this fight -- but it will take all of us standing up if we want to win. A public option makes sense for the country as a whole, and it makes particularly good sense for Black folks. Many of us make too much to qualify for Medicaid but either aren't eligible for or aren't adequately covered by private, employer-based plans. Overall, 21% of Blacks are uninsured, compared to 12% of Whites.
Take a minute to tell our lawmakers that the first step toward improving our health care system is including a public plan that makes good health something everyone can afford. And when you do, please ask your friends and family to do the same:
http://www.colorofchange.org/health/
"WE" can win this fight that seem at the present being won by that $1.4 million a day being handed out to the very people we made it possible to go to Washington, D.C to continue to go against our intrest election after elections...Our putting an end to this political business as usual is going to take us answering the call of our president thet we bring about C-H-A-N-G-E...
This change depends on us to stand up as what we truly are..."W-E ARE THE U. S. GOVERNMENT"lets begin to start acting like this , yesterday...hit those Congress.org along with all of thelinks we find here on BIA with emails reminding them that they work for your tax $ not those of the lobby's $1.4 million per day!!!!!!!
YES WE CAN help watch our president's back(smile)