Congressman Grayson: Sunday Vote Will Be The "Triumph Of Hope Over Fear"

[ProSense]

GRAYSON HIGHLIGHTS HEALTH REFORM PLAN

Sunday Vote Will Be The "Triumph Of Hope Over Fear"

March 19, 2010
Washington, DC

(WASHINGTON) – Today Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-8) announced new numbers, which show the people of Central Florida will see immediate and long-term benefits from the proposed health care reform.

Congressman Grayson said, “This is the greatest step toward accomplishing a good life for middle-class Americans that we’ve seen in a generation. The bill will provide virtually every American with universal, comprehensive, and affordable health coverage. It is truly the triumph of hope over fear.”

A new analysis by the House Energy and Commerce Committee concluded that hundreds of thousands of people here in Central Florida will obtain new or improved health insurance under the reform proposal. In Congressman Grayson’s district, the health care bill will:

• Improve existing insurance coverage for 465,000 people.
  
• Give tax credits and other assistance to up to 193,000 families and 20,100 small businesses to help them afford coverage.
  
• Improve Medicare for 108,000 beneficiaries, including closing the donut hole.
  
• Extend coverage to 108,000 uninsured people.
  
• Guarantee that 19,500 people with pre-existing conditions can obtain coverage.
  
• Protect 1,600 families from bankruptcy due to unaffordable health care costs.
  
• Allow 63,000 young adults to obtain coverage on their parents’ insurance plans.

You can read the analysis for the 800,000 people of our 8th Congressional District here.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concludes that the reforms will cut the nation’s deficit by $138 billion over the next 10 years, and $1.2 trillion during the following decade.

Congressman Grayson continues to rally support for his Public Option Act. The bill, also known as the Medicare You Can Buy Into Act, opens up Medicare to anyone who can afford it. In only a week, Congressman Grayson already convinced 80 of his fellow Members of Congress to cosponsor H.R. 4789. Thousands of people have expressed support.

You can read more about the Public Option Act here.

[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[mzmolly]

3. Some aren't interested

in truth or hope these days.

[ShortnFiery]

2. Since Grayson doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting his House bill thru the Senate ...

I can't help but WONDER if he thinks the American People are gullible IDIOTS? :(

[BeFree]

7. Eh?

Not a snowball's chance in hell?

You may have to eat that snowball. And you might like it.

Grayson's Medicare for all is gonna be the cat's meow. The fat lady is gonna sing.

We will have Medicare for all, soon enough.

[ShortnFiery]

10. Don't be fooled by the faux posturing by "the players."

It's all an elaborate waltz.

Grayson's a player, and as such, is part of the *big club* ... you and I are NOT.

Grayson's Medicare for all bill even to be considered?

Hell to the "NO!"

[NYC_SKP]

4. I love how the naysayers are making up excuses. Maybe Rahm got to Grayson...

:sarcasm:

There are always a few in every crowd who refuse to see through the fog of rhetoric they've been consuming.

K and R.

:kick:

[Dappleganger]

5. One of the few shining lights down here. nt

[ipaint]

6. Hooray for the middle class.

I'm in the "let them eat shitty, underfunded medicaid" class. At least I'll be able to access some minimal care, hopefully. Can't say that for the deluded in the ever pandered to and soon to be perpetually under-insured middle class.

[Matariki]

8. I've got more faith in Grayson than most in Congress

so this gives me hope that the final bill is shaping up to be something better than just rape and pillage of the middle class.

Still don't like a mandate to purchase from for-profit private business though. It's a very bad precedent.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Grayson under the bus in 3..2..1.. Oh shit, I'm too late, he's already down there.

:popcorn: