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Share Your Health Care Concerns With the President-Elect Obama

by: spazeboy

Fri Nov 28, 2008 at 17:01:00 PM EST

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_{(Cross-Posted from CCAG.net)}

Obama's transition team recently started the first of a series of online discussions to get our input on the issues that we face in America. The first discussion is about health care, making it clear that this is a priority for the new President.

President-Elect Barack Obama proudly endorses the HCAN principles
_{Health Care for America Now is commonly abbreviated as HCAN}

Many of you have shared your concerns about the private insurance industry and rising health care costs with your congressional representatives, at Health Care for America Now rallies, and at public hearings all across Connecticut.

President-Elect Barack Obama, by starting this conversation on his transition website, has sent a clear message that he wants to hear our thoughts and concerns about the health care system in this country. It's important that he hears a call to fix the broken health care system from all of us, because the insurance and drug company lobbyists are already swarming Congress to protect their profitable business models.

You can click here to join the discussion about the future of health care in America. Leave a comment, and tell President-Elect Barack Obama that in 2009 you want quality, affordable health care we all can count on!

Disclosure: I am the Online Organizer for Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG)

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Share Your Health Care Concerns With the President-Elect Obama | 2 comments

Push for a single payer system (0.00 / 0)

Spazeboy....any change that you can successfully push for that takes our country closer to a single payer system would be helpful.

by: BruceRubenstein1 @ Sat Nov 29, 2008 at 15:33:22 PM UTC

Does he really want ALL our input? (0.00 / 0)

It's great that we finally have a President (elect) who seems serious about major health care reform. And it's an appropriate nod to the grassroots support that propelled him into office that he wants to hear everyone's thoughts about the health care crsis and possible solutions.

That's why I am particularly troubled that Mr. Obama appears to be working so closely on this "conversation" thing with a national organization, Health Care for America Now (HCAN), that seems to have already finished its dinner conversation and moved on to cigars and brandy. HCAN is firmly settled in the front seat of the (focus-group-approved) "People don't want quality, affordable health care - they want CHOICE" bandwagon. But on several occasions, Mr. Obama has acknowledged that a single-payer plan makes the most sense, saves the most money, provides the best health care. Is it politically possible? Was a "President Obama" considered "politically possible?"

I don't mean to get a whole "How do we best achieve the most health care coverage" debate started - been there, done that. But my question is this: Why, at this early point in the game, has Mr. Obama joined forces with HCAN, an organization that has ruled OUT single-payer from the get-go?

What kind of conversation is THAT?

by: iBlog @ Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 19:53:04 PM UTC