Support Health Care Reform Senator Ben Nelson

Mable Yee
Posted in Contributor, Government & Accountability, Health, Uncategorized, Video
on 08/04/2009 09:24 pm
by Mable Yee

Now that the August recess has started and our elected legislators are going home to meet their constituents to discuss the issues, it’s our time for citizen advocacy to push into high gear.  Health care reform and the Public Option is a high priority for our nation and for the millions of us who are poorly served by the existing system. We  share the opportunity to shine a spotlight on our elected officials to support reforming the broken health care system.  Many of the legislators are playing political football with our health care while our costs continue to spiral upwards, more people are being laid off and losing existing healthcare coverage and millions more are facing a future without health care coverage. Meanwhile many of the legislators are being courted by medical, insurance and health care industry lobbyists to stall or kill health care reform so that they can continue to profit from the existing broken system.

It’s exciting to see numerous grassroots and groups organize advertising media campaigns, phone call programs and participation at Town Hall sessions to voice their opinion and support of health care reform and the Public Option. While adversaries try to skew the media and put out misleading information to put doubt and fear into people’s minds, many others are fighting back.  A new TV ad featuring a business owner who just had his costs increased 42% by his insurance provider asks point blank of his elected representative, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska if he is supporting health care reform and the public option or is he sitting on the fence. He goes further to reveal that his elected legislator has taken over $2 million dollars from corporate lobbyists whose special interests support blocking health care reform so that they can continue profiting from the existing broken system. It’s a great ad and campaign to let our legislators know that we’re watching them, demanding support and letting them know that if they don’t support the wishes of their voters, that it will affect the way they vote in upcoming elections. If our officials don’t represent our best interests, then they don’t deserve to be voted back into office.
We’ll be reporting on more interesting campaigns and issues like this in the months ahead. 

If you believe in putting pressure on our elected officials to support key initiatives you care about, then feel free to sign the petition at the end of the video and send it around to all your friends. Mable

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