CALL TO ACTION!

It's rare that The Mayoress asks her dear readers to do more than click on a link or comment on a post, but some things are more important than blog readership.

We need to get this health care bill through. Not a watered-down, fear-laden, politicians-getting-paid-by-insurers version, a version that actually gets our country on track to caring for its people.

I appeal to you as someone whose health care will run out at the end of this month. As someone who once paid $3000 out of pocket for a cervical cancer test. As someone who has friends who were bankrupted by catching pneumonia. As someone who realizes that any one of you could lose your job and thus your health care, that $400+/month out of pocket is too much to afford for private care, that many of my friends simply opt out of having insurance at all.

Here's how to take action - each of these items will take you less than 3 minutes. If crazy fear-driven Limbaugh disciples can take half a day to go to a town hall and scare everyone, can't you take 3 minutes to ensure a better future for yourself, for me, for our friends, kids, fellow Americans?

Contact your Representative. Just visit https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml and enter your zip code. Tell your Congressperson that you support health care for everyone, and that you hope he/she will stand against the misinformation out there and support those who elected him/her to office. Here's what I wrote:


First, thank you for your service to our community and nation.

I'm writing to encourage you to support Obama's Health Care Bill INCLUDING the public option. I will lose my insurance at the end of this month due to lay-offs, and I can't afford to pay out of pocket for a private plan. Many of my friends are uninsured because our jobs don't provide insurance and/or we can't afford private care.

I do wish the bill included more steps supporting prevention, but I believe the bill is a step in the right direction and we can further improve it once passed.

Again, thank you, and I urge you to support the health of your constituents.


Contact your Senator. http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?State=NY

Contact Obama. Tell him NOT to drop the public option. http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

Post this on your Facebook Wall. Just link to http://meetthepressler.blogspot.com/2009/08/call-to-action.html or put your story in a note and post it to your wall.

Email your friends and family. Tell them your story, or mine, or go watch Michael Moore's Sicko and be in utter disbelief at what insurance companies currently get away with.

I just did all of the above and wrote this post in less than 15 minutes. Highly worth it. I hope you agree.


Learn more about the health care plan here:
Read the bill
Obama's editorial in the New York Times
Comprehensive online guide on Slate
How it affects women
Governor and Doctor Howard Dean explains it all