Another Letter to our Senators

Again I am writing to our Senators in the hopes that they will do the right thing and support meaningful health care reform that covers all people. In this country of riches and bounty it is disgusting that we cannot care for all of our people. To have over 40,000 people die just because they cannot get health care makes this government akin to murderers. It is time to bite the bullet and pass meaningful legislation not something that will satisfy the insurance industry.
Dear Senators, Snow and Collins,
I am urging you to support meaningful health care reform with a strong public option and no Stupak amendment. Every American deserves to have as good health care as you enjoy and the majority of Americans support the so-called public option. You have government run health care and so do I through Medicare. Let's give everyone the choice.
This Sunday Bill Nemitz had a wonderful and very moving though very depressing article on the poverty in Washington and Hancock counties. These are your constituents! They have to choose between food and medicine, whether or not to heat their homes so they surely don't have the money to pay for health care.
We can afford to fund two wars that were started with lies but we cannot afford to feed and care for our own people. Something is terribly wrong with this picture. So forget about the insurance companies who are playing politics with our health care for their own greed and profit and vote for the people this time.

Somehow I doubt that you will do the right thing. I hope you prove me wrong.

ANOTHER LETTER TO SENATORS SNOWE AND COLLINS

Dear Senators,

First of all I am wondering how you can still call yourselves Republicans when one lie after another about health care reform is being told in your name. Getting people all stirred up to violence, carrying guns and being loud and rude is appalling and disgusting. Reasonable debate and asking questions is not wrong but hate speech, threats and lies are totally inappropriate.

As far as health care reform goes we do need the public option. There are too many people losing coverage, people who don't even have coverage and people being denied treatments that could save their lives. Talk about death panels, we have them now and they are called Health Insurance companies and HMO's. Go to the following link and look at the chart comparing the public option with the coop plan and you will see that the public will be the ones hurt by a coop plan. Also read Senator Rockefeller's discussion the coop plan. http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/6824

I truly do not understand why you would not want everyone to have health insurance coverage. Don't tell me that we have the best health care in the world. Stephen Hawkings is still a.live in Great Britain but my friend with ALS here in this country is dying very quickly because no one is willing to treat her the same way!

Again I urge you to support the public option and support you people. Obviously the government can run health insurance. It runs yours and it runs Medicare and I surely happy with the way my bills are paid and the coverage that I have and I am sure that you are too.

Proud To Be From Maine

I want to congratulate our two Republican Senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, for having the the courage to stand up and do what they thought was right for the American people and the people of Maine by supporting the Stimulus bill that Presdient Obama will sign this week.

Susan Collins worked very hard to bring about a compromise bill for the Stimulus package that she could support and that is to her credit. I have always admired the independence of Olympia Snowe and she showed again her strength and willingness to work in a bipartisan manner to support this legislation.

These two women showed up their Rebublican counterparts by putting the people first and not just going the party line and they are to be complimented.

I, for one, intend to write to them both and thank them and I hope others will do that too because it truly took courage for these two women from Maine to stand against the tide swell of Republican negativity.