Current Health Care Bill or HR 4789 Better?

[Denver Dave]

Current Health Care Bill or HR 4789 Better?

What do you think? If you had to choose between the current national health care bill and HR 4789 - Medicare You Can Buy Into Act?

www.WeWantMedicare.com

www.hctalk.com/viewtopic.php?t=1007

I'm starting to wonder if we might be better off with just HR 4789 than the current health care bill. HR 4789 may not go far enough, but at least we understand it and it seems to go the right direction. HR 4789 now has 75 co-sponsors, including Congressman Alan Grayson, the main sponsor, and 31,000 votes on www.WeWantMedicare.com

I hope all the organizations that campaigned for the public option will support HR 4789, which seems to be the public option that we needed from the beginning.

Dave

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1. signed.

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2. Demand a Vote on the Public Option is the title of website for Grayson. I think it would

bring more to the site if you changed the subject line (imho).

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3. Medicare you can buy into

at least it is health care.

I'm worried the other bill just gives insurance cos more power and money
making it even less likely we'll ever have single payer health care.

[Denver Dave]

4. Alan Grayson on DemocracyNOW

Just heard Alan Grayson on DemocracyNow. Says we may get a vote on both the main health care bill and HR 4789 - Medicare You Can Buy Into Act. HR 4789 now has 81 sponsors (including Grayson) and over 37,000 people have signed the petition. I'm disappointed a million haven't signed yet, but its a start. For more information about HR 4789 - see www.WeWantMedicare.org

Hard to believe, but I also heard a wonderful explanation of why we need another option to the main health are bill from Arizona Republican Congressman John Shadegg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCoWilXEysc He does seem to get why health care reform is needed, but hasn't co-sponsored HR 4789 (yet).

How do we get the number of 37,000 petition signers up to a million. I'm starting to run out of ideas.
- posted links from some of my websites
- setup www.WeWantMedicare.org
- setup the HR4789 Yahoo Group
- Posted info to the 16 health care reform yahoo groups I participate in across the country
- Called all of my state's congresspersons and asked them to support HR 4789 (2 are already co-sponsors)

What are we overlooking?

Dave