Rapid Response Team – Weekly Calls to Congress
The Senate Finance Committee bill that was passed yesterday is unacceptable. It falls short on making insurance affordable to America’s families, gives employers a free ride, taxes higher cost health insurance benefit plans and does not create meaningful competition in the insurance market with a strong national public health insurance option. The foundation of health care reform must be built on a public health insurance option and measures to make health care more affordable.
On Monday, the leading health insurance industry trade group showed its true colors by releasing a bogus report threatening to raise rates if health reform passes. The weak Senate Finance Committee bill will allow them to carry out that threat. This is just another reason why we need the final reform bill to have a public health insurance option and regulations that reign in the insurance industry.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will pull together representatives from the Senate Finance and the Senate HELP Committees to negotiate the two Committee bills into one health reform proposal to be brought to the Senate Floor for a vote in a couple of weeks. The Senate HELP Committee bill contains a public option and addresses many of our concerns. So we still have a good chance to win. So let’s keep working together. We need people to call Senator Harry Reid!
Please Call Senator Reid Today!
Call 202.224.3121
Tell Senator Reid: We need your leadership to ensure that the Senate reform bill contains a public option to keep insurance companies in check. It should not tax and punish families who are lucky enough to have good health benefits – taxing benefits is no way to fund health care! We would also like to see our Senator Schumer on the Senate health reform Conference Committee – We trust our Senator to fight for real reform that contains a strong public option and does not tax health care benefits.
