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Congressional Progressive Caucus Letter to President Barack Obama on Health Care

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 9:32am.

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July 22, 2009

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC

Dear President Barack Obama,

On behalf of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, we write to you regarding healthcare reform.

Thank you for your leadership on this issue and for prioritizing the working poor in accessing guaranteed, affordable and quality healthcare.

We have been watching and engaging in the healthcare debate over the past five months and we were particularly encouraged by your commitment to the public option.

As the healthcare proposal continues to move forward in the House and Senate, we ask that you continue your commitment to the inclusion of a strong public option and do not weaken the language that has already passed through two committees.

Let us be clear: a strong public option is already a compromise for the CPC. Many of us strongly supported a single-payer approach. We will not support a weakened public option.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus stands united to provide high quality, affordability and accessibility in healthcare choices for all Americans.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus believes the public plan should provide a guarantee of coverage, affordable, high-quality and accessible healthcare, and lower costs -- regardless of income, health status, race, employment or gender. We strongly oppose any conditions or triggers undermining and limiting the availability of the public option.

We look forward to our continued involvement in the process.

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Absolutely dead on target

Submitted by lmjohnson on Sat, 07/25/2009 - 10:51am.
Absolutely dead on target with your views. Corporate facism -- excellent way to label it too, by the way. Let the damned corporations pay all the bills.
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I for one support the

Submitted by Atmost11 on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 2:20pm.
I for one support the Progressive Democrats, we need to get this public option in order to have an economic recovery, to prevent an authoritarian backlash, and to save Americans who are going to die or go bankrupt because of those who do not support what is right along with the Progressive Democrats.
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compromised to hell

Submitted by godblessfdr on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 12:35pm.
the Obama health bill has already been codmpromised to hell by Republican and conservative Democrats so only poor blacks who will get subsides can afford it.I also will probably not be voting next election as Democrats now seen indistinquisable from republicans except in speeches which they ignor anyway.
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Compromise

Submitted by Alan8 on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 11:16am.
I liked this part: "Let us be clear: a strong public option is already a compromise for the CPC. Many of us strongly supported a single-payer approach. We will not support a weakened public option."

A public option is better than nothing. I still will not vote for any politician that didn't support single-payer. This leaves the Green Party, the Socialists, and the REAL progressive Democrats.
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Lets just drop the pretense

Submitted by Chabuka on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 1:18pm.
let the corporations and their lobbyists pay for the wages and benefits that Congress enjoys...let the Corporations pay for the upkeep and the maintenance of all "federal buildings" the military, all "federal funding", etc.,..they already write all the legislation with the help of their Congressional lackeys...if they are writing the legislation to benefit themselves and their Congressional lackeys...why should we (the middle man) be paying for any thing in Government..we sure as hell never get any thing we want or need....so lets just drop the "Democracy" pretense, drop the "mask", the propaganda, stop fooling ourselves...let the corporations pay for their own damn government, (they already own it, let them pay the bills!) and call it what it really is..corporate fascism..
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Absolutely correct, Chabuka

Submitted by Renard on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 7:36am.

We the People need to stop being taken in by the thin veneer of "democracy" we currently enjoy while corporate interests essentially run the government and siphon off all available resources for their own enrichment.

It's been this way for a very long time. Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States" should be mandatory reading in all our schools, which would provide a real education on the actual state of things for our children.

All of us who have Democratic senators and reps need to contact them immediately and lay it on the line--either they deliver for us on real health care reform (as we delivered a healthy majority and the presidency to them last November), or they are finished--no more hopeful support from progressives and others who see them as the lesser of the two evils. Maybe things need to get a lot worse (more Bush-type years of blatant theft) before they can get better.

When their lips are moving, they are lying. When they are silent, they are stealing.

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