The Right-Wing Can Organize… Who Knew?

Karen Scharff August 6, 2009 2
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Angry Protester Holding a Sign Portraying Congressman Doggett as a Devil

Last week, the House of Representatives went home without voting on health care reform.

As Members of Congress arrived back in their districts to begin conversations with constituents about how we can work together to make sure everyone in America has access to quality, affordable health care, they were ambushed by corporate-organized mobs with the intent of stopping conversation and blocking meaningful reform.

We need to fight back – we need to make sure our Representatives know that a large majority of Americans support health care reform. We need to make sure they know how urgent this is – that 14,000 people are losing their health coverage every day!

But, countering right-wing, corporate-supported, organized attacks against our Members of Congress isn’t cheap. We need your support right now to make sure we can continue this fight through the end of the August recess.

Click here to make your contribution now!

Winning real health care reform isn’t a battle we can risk losing. There’s just too much at stake.

For 60 years big corporations and wealthy lobbyists have been able to make huge profits while the American people have been left to pay skyrocketing health care costs. Health care reform can’t wait any longer.

Even if you already have health insurance, health care reform will lower your health care costs because of the competition created by a public plan. And the cost of doing nothing is high – really high. The average family will pay $10,000 more in premiums by 2019 if nothing is done.1

We have a winning strategy in place to make sure that H.R. 3200 is passed when the House returns, but we need your support right now to execute this strategy.

Click here to contribute to winning real health care reform!

We’ll be in touch with more actions next week.

Thanks for all you do,

Karen Scharff
Executive Director
Citizen Action of New York

1. Center for American Progress, Health Care Premiums Run Amok: The Cost of Doing Nothing About the Health Care Crisis

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  • http://kazoolist.blogspot.com/ kazoolist

    “ambushed by corporate-organized mobs with the intent of stopping conversation and blocking meaningful reform”

    What complete B.S.

    These protests are not “corporate organized”, and by pushing that lie YOU are the one who is attempting to stop the “conversation” by dismissing the arguments on our side.

    There are plenty of us who aren’t happy about the massive expansion of government we’ve seen in the last 9 months (starting with the end of Bush’s term, with the Bush-Obama economic policies of ‘stimulus’ and ‘bailout’ carried steadfastly forward under Obama).

    And the thought of seeing government’s reach into our lives also dictate our healthcare is yet another step too far.

    And we’re not puppets of ‘Big Insurance’ or ‘Big Pharma’ or anything else. We’re just proponents of big liberty — the kind of liberty this country was founded on, and which you on the left are threatening to rip away.

  • http://kazoolist.blogspot.com kazoolist

    “ambushed by corporate-organized mobs with the intent of stopping conversation and blocking meaningful reform”

    What complete B.S.

    These protests are not “corporate organized”, and by pushing that lie YOU are the one who is attempting to stop the “conversation” by dismissing the arguments on our side.

    There are plenty of us who aren’t happy about the massive expansion of government we’ve seen in the last 9 months (starting with the end of Bush’s term, with the Bush-Obama economic policies of ‘stimulus’ and ‘bailout’ carried steadfastly forward under Obama).

    And the thought of seeing government’s reach into our lives also dictate our healthcare is yet another step too far.

    And we’re not puppets of ‘Big Insurance’ or ‘Big Pharma’ or anything else. We’re just proponents of big liberty — the kind of liberty this country was founded on, and which you on the left are threatening to rip away.