Friday, May 15, 2009

Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama

by Jason Rosenbaum

Just four days after standing next to President Obama and declaring their commitment to control health care costs to the tune of $2 trillion over 10 years, the insurance industry, drug and medical device makers, and hospital groups are backing off their promise:

Why do they still have a seat at the table?

Read it all...

1 comment:

www.democratz.org said...

I saw your comments on the Progressive Democrats of America Blog.

A Call to action.

I have seen and spoke to a lot of well meaning Democrats wanting to make change in Washington and they issue petitions but they refuse to boycott the friends of those who would block progressive action and legislation. Such Democrats unnecessarily tie their left hand behind their backs. I urge people to consider boycotting the friends of those conservatives in congress in order to force them to sit up and take notice and capitulate to our demands. In our country money appears an important factor in getting action done. We need to go on a purchasing strike against the friends of regressives in order to force them to cooperate with us. It appears peaceful and legal in an atmosphere of legalized bribery in congress. We need to take back control over our purchases and how the profits get spent especially how they get used for legalized bribery in congress. We indirectly fund conservatives in congress through our purchases. We need to set conditions for our purchases through targeted boycotts.

If you don't like a particular TV program, you call their sponsors and tell them you will boycott them until the program either goes off the air or changes to your liking. This works similar with political parties, politicians and their sponsors (campaign contributors).

If you have a blog please post this on your blog. I want to get at least 100,000 people to sign these petitions, the first one which you can demand single payer health care and a fix to the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Read and sign these legislative petitions please and get hundreds of people to sign them and they will automatically go to Republican minority leaders Sen. McConnell and Rep. Boehner right away once you sign the petition.

http://bit.ly/single_payer

http://bit.ly/EFCA

http://bit.ly/10_an_hour_min_wage

http://bit.ly/norm_coleman_concede

http://bit.ly/women_freedom_of_choice_act

The links above correspond to these links with longer text.

http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_congress_and_the_president_enact_single_payer_universal_health_care

http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_congress_and_the_president_enact_the_employee_free_choice_act

http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_that_the_congress_and_the_president_enact_a_10_an_hour_minimum_wage_into_law

http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_that_norm_coleman_concede_the_senate_race

http://www.change.org/actions/view/i_demand_that_the_congress_and_the_president_enact_the_womens_freedom_of_choice_act_into_law


Oh and I created this parody t shirt about medicare part D that uses a familiar symbol.

See it here.

http://www.zazzle.com/http_action_democratz_org_tshirt-235693652310223019?group=mens&lifeStyle=all&rf=238083065491105452

Spread this announcement around the country. Set up groups in each state to distribute this information about these petitions and get people to sign these petitions.

Post a Comment