Eve and I would like to announce exciting news--we're working with Darcy Burner on the FixItAndPassIt! Project. Here's what our project is about:
Healthcare Reform: Fix It and Pass It! is a project of the Progressive Congress Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) non-profit organization dedicated to connecting the progressive movement, ideas, and Congress.
We're fighting to help pass comprehensive health reform! We've got to get this done. Will you please JOIN US and DONATE for the BIG PUSH TO GET HEALTH REFORM OVER THE FINISH LINE?
CLICK TO PLEDGE TO MAKE PHONE CALLS TO CONGRESS ON FEBRUARY 24th AND 25TH FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REFORM!
All you have to do is click on these two buttons below to help us with our BIG PUSH TO GET AMERICA OVER THE FINISH LINE. It isn't enough what we're doing----we can't stop fighting for Americans even once President Obama signs this bill--and with your hard work, we will have a bill--this will get done. But the road is long and perilous towards this noble goal of real health care reform. It just doesn't stop at the Rose Garden signing. That will be day one. We'll continue to advocate for better health reform--which, at the end of the day, is what unifies all of us.
Please join our Facebook campaign, where we've gotten over 1,800 members ready to burn up the lines to Congress!
PLEASE HELP US CALL FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REFORM!
We've also been working with other groups in our Facebook group to promote this unprecedented citizen mobilization for the 24th and the 25th. If you want to be a part of the big push, you are free to join, and we welcome you in helping us push for comprehensive health reform! Here's a cool poster for the citizen mobilization effort---feel free to download and make into your Twitter or Facebook avatars. I'm already doing that, thanks to The Erratic Synapse who designed the poster, and runs his own Facebook group.
CLICK TO PLEDGE TO MAKE PHONE CALLS TO CONGRESS ON FEBRUARY 24th AND 25TH FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REFORM!
Will you help us out by doing these two very simple requests below?
On Twitter, please tweet this very simple link:
Please join our Facebook campaign to #passthefix and #passthebill! http://bit.ly/... #hcr
When you join our group on Facebook, please invite your friends to join the Facebook group with you, and send the link out in an e-mail to your friends and loved ones!
Democracy For America joined the 1,000,000 Calls Campaign right away. We hope next week, that there will be an even bigger coalition of groups all pushing in one direction: pass comprehensive healthcare reform, and get a bill to President Obama--and do it NOW! When this glorious day happens, it will be just the first small step on the road to making healthcare a right for all Americans. We need all hands on board to cross the finish line.
We've got to do this when we keep seeing stories about private insurers like Anthem raising premiums by 39% in California. Here's the important diary thanks to Cedwyn here:
In a rare step, the Obama administration called on California's largest for-profit insurer to justify its rate hikes, saying the increases were alarming at a time when subscribers face skyrocketing healthcare costs.
...The insurer should give a 'detailed justification' for its plan to raise premiums on individual policies by as much as 39%, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says.
Also, here's a disgusting news article about how much profit the top five private insurers made last year, while dropping 2.7 million Americans off their rolls. They made over $12 billion dollars in profit, greed, and by denying claims to sick Americans.
As a group, WellPoint, Aetna, UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Cigna saw their profits jump 56 percent in 2009 up $4.4 billion over the previous year, according to the report. Four out of five companies saw profits increase while insuring fewer people. Cigna increased earnings by 346 percent while UnitedHealth shed 1.7 million beneficiaries. Aetna, which increased its membership and percentage of premiums spent on medical care, was the only company to see less income in 2009 than 2008.
"Increasing your profits, dropping people is a specific corporate strategy," said Richard Kirsch of Health Care for America Now, the progressive coalition that prepared the report. "What the big health insurance companies do to please Wall Street denies affordable health insurance to millions of Americans, millions more Americans every year."
I'm also tired of seeing sad stories from members of our own community by Buckeye BattleCry and breakingranks here. They're good members of our community, and they shouldn't have to put up with stuff like this in our screwed up health care system.
And today, Darcy Burner at Progressive Congress Action Fund sent the attached press release announcing the all out battle we'll be waging to get the healthcare job done for the American people.
Eve and I also have a new Twitter account. Just click the button below to follow the 1,000,000 Call Campaign accelerate down the track.
This is who we're fighting for---please DONATE just $10 or $20 dollars!