**** PLEASE CALL HARKIN & GRASSLEY ON HEALTH CARE ***

[rurallib]

I don't know if you have heard that there is a move afoot in the senate to have a "trigger" as an option. The option would allow our system to limp along as it is for another seven miserable years before anything happens. Then a public option would be triggered if certain criteria were met.
I can guarantee that the the insurance companies will game the system so the trigger will never be met.

PLEASE I AM BEGGING YOU CALL HARKIN AND GRASSLEY AND TELL THEM NO (BLEEPING) TRIGGER

Harkin 202-224-3254
Grassley 202-224-3744
and don't forget Max Baucus
202-224-2651

Don't kick yourself in the ass 3 months from now saying "Gee I wish I would have called"

[Bluzmann57]

1. Called Senators Harkin and Grassley

Grassley has me on hold as I am typing this. Grrrr! Got right through to Senator Harkin's office right away and the guy said he'd tell the Senator how I felt.
Ok, I am not on hold now. Grassley's aide is taking my info and my address. She said she'd pass along my opposition and that Senator Grassley would contact me.

[rurallib]

2. They hung up on me when I called about the stimulus.

The guy said "the senator has made up his mind" and hung up.

[Bluzmann57]

3. They who?

Grassley, Harkin, or both? I had a rather pleasant conversation with some kid, er, young man in Harkin's Davenport office about the stimulus. I suspect that Grassley's people put me on hold because they have been recieving a lot of calls about the health care issue. Maybe they wanted me to hang up. I don't know. I do know it irritated me.

[rurallib]

4. Grassley's office in Washington.