{"id":325,"date":"2009-08-18T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/write-your-congress-person\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:23:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:23:49","slug":"write-your-congress-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/write-your-congress-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Write your congress person"},"content":{"rendered":"

The public option is a compromise, and not a very good one. But access to health care is a moral issue and we have to do whatever we can to make sure that everybody has access. We can pass a compromise now and fix the rest of it later.
\nHoward Dean has a list of how everybody in congress has indicated they’re going to vote on health reform<\/a>. The number of people who “don’t know” if they support a public option is high enough to swing it either way.
\nFeinstein is on the list of “don’t know”s, so I used her web form<\/a> to send her a letter.<\/p>\n

\nDear Honorable Senator Feinstein,<\/p>\n

I would like to encourage you to support a public option for health care reform. Any bill which does not include this option is not real reform. I voted for Obama partly because of his promises on this issue.<\/p>\n

I vote absentee in California, but I’m studying overseas in England. The NHS is a fantastic system and we would be doing well to recreate it in the states. A public option is a compromise and not the best one. Failure to support even that is not just a political failure, it’s a moral failure. I’m sure that I don’t need to remind you of the alarmingly high number of uninsured children in California. They are counting on you to support a real reform, with at least a public option.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time,<\/p>\n

C. Hutchins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It’s probably also worthwhile to write congress people who support it and thank them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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