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Making sure every American has access to high quality health care is one of the most important challenges of our time. The number of uninsured Americans is growing, premiums are skyrocketing, and more people are being denied coverage every day. A moral imperative by any measure, a better system is also essential to rebuilding our economy. We want to make health insurance work for people and businesses, not just insurance and drug companies.

We've talked this problem to death.

In the next two weeks, Members of both the House and Senate will be called upon to decide which side of history they will be on when it comes to ending our status as the only nation in the industrial world that does not guarantee health care as a human right.

Talk to your Members of Congress. Ask them each what kind of legacy they want to leave after their political career is done. Tell them to stop worrying so much what the lobbyists and big contributors think about their decisions and ask themselves how those decisions will be viewed by history.

Rep. Jared Polis (CO) http://polis.house.gov/Contact/

Rep. Mike Ross (AR) http://ross.house.gov/?sectionid=77&sectiontree=76,77

Rep. Jason Altmire (PA) https://forms.house.gov/altmire/webf..._subscribe.htm

Rep. Dina Titus (NV) https://forms.house.gov/titus/contact-form.shtml

Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/

Sen. Ben Nelson (NE) http://bennelson.senate.gov/email-issues.cfm

Sen. Mary Landrieu (LA) http://landrieu.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

Tell these Representatives and Senators not to follow the same old road. We can now start demanding health care reform from our lawmakers.

Those who want to see a universal health care system similar to that employed in most developed countries in Europe should start informing every Representative and Senator, starting today.

Your grandkids will wonder why anyone would balk at beginning to rationalize the bloated, inefficient American health care system that leaves us 37th in the world in health care outcomes and costs us 50% more per person than any other country on the planet.

They will look back on those who tried to stand in the way of serious health care reform the way we look back on those who tried to block the creation of Social Security or Medicare or the Civil Rights Act.

 

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The need for reform is urgent and it is indisputable. The healthcare reform bill released by the House Of Representatives is an excellent bill. It's a bill with a strong, robust, government-run public option, and an intelligent, reasonable initial funding plan.

It is carefully written, thoughtfully constructed, informed, prudent and wise.

This bill will save trillions of dollars, and millions of lives. It is also now supported by the AMA.

This is the type of bill that all Americans can feel good about, and it has the potential to dramatically improve the quality of health care for all Americans. Rich, middle class and poor alike.

We're closer than ever before to the reform that the American people need and we're going to get it. We've forged a level of consensus on health care that has never been reached in the history of this country.

Time and again, we've heard excuses to delay and defeat reform. Time and again, the American people have suffered because people in Washington played the politics of the moment instead of putting the interests of the American people first. That's how we ended up with premiums rising three times faster than wages. That's how we ended up with businesses choosing between shedding benefits and shutting their doors. That's how we've been burdened with runaway costs and huge gaps in coverage. That's the status quo.

Republicans seem to care more about ensuring that the wealthy do not pay higher taxes than providing health care to the uninsured. They are being paid by insurance companies to lie to you with scare tactics.

Here are the facts:

We are the only "civilized" nation that does not have a humane health care system.

If you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it.

You won't lose your insurance if you change your job.